Director of Product

First Resonance is seeking a visionary and experienced Director of Product to lead and expand our product offerings for manufacturing companies. This is a strategic leadership role for an individual with extensive, executive-level experience from the factory floor, supply chain operations, or advanced manufacturing systems. You will be responsible for defining and executing the long-term product vision, strategy, and roadmap, directly influencing our market position and growth. You will lead and mentor a team of product managers, collaborate with cross-functional leadership, and serve as a key voice in shaping the future of manufacturing software.

This position is ideal for a seasoned leader who has not only driven significant operational and technological transformations within manufacturing, logistics, or supply chain but has also excelled in product leadership roles, demonstrating a profound ability to impact an entire business and industry.

Responsibilities & Duties

As the Director of Product, your primary responsibility is to define, articulate, and execute a compelling product vision and strategy that helps manufacturers build faster, safer, and more flexibly, establishing First Resonance as a market leader. You will own the strategic direction of multiple product areas, ensuring alignment with company objectives and market demands.

• Define and champion the product vision and strategy: Set the long-term product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the entire manufacturing and supply chain product portfolio, ensuring alignment with company goals, market opportunities, and competitive landscape.

• Lead and mentor a high-performing team: Recruit, develop, and manage a team of product managers, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and customer-centricity. Provide strategic guidance and mentorship.

• Drive strategic initiatives: Identify and champion strategic product initiatives that address complex, high-impact problems within manufacturing and supply chain, translating them into executable product strategies and solutions.

• Executive stakeholder alignment: Collaborate closely with executive leadership, engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success to ensure cohesive strategy and execution across the organization.

• Market and customer expert: Develop an unparalleled understanding of market trends, competitive dynamics, and deep customer needs across the manufacturing and supply chain ecosystem.

• Oversee the entire product lifecycle: Provide strategic oversight for the end-to-end product lifecycle, from strategic discovery and concept validation to meticulous delivery, market launch, and post-launch optimization, ensuring measurable business impact.

• Innovate with emerging technologies: Lead the charge in leveraging emerging technologies, including advanced AI/ML, to create groundbreaking product capabilities that disrupt traditional manufacturing paradigms.

• Influence and evangelize: Serve as a key internal and external evangelist for our product vision and strategy, presenting to customers, partners, industry events, and the board.

Minimum Qualifications & Skills

• 12+ years of progressive experience in product management, with at least 5+ years in a management-level role overseeing manufacturing, industrial engineering, supply chain, or related enterprise software products.

• Executive-level experience with complex ERP, MES, PLM, QMS, or other critical factory-floor software, including strategic decision-making and implementation oversight.

• Demonstrated track record of leading and scaling product teams while successfully launching and iterating on complex software products in the manufacturing or industrial sector.

• Proven ability to define and articulate a compelling product vision and strategy that drives significant business growth and market differentiation.

• Expertise in leveraging AI/ML for product innovation, including strategic application in areas like predictive maintenance, supply chain optimization, autonomous operations, or smart factory solutions.

• Exceptional customer-centric mindset with a demonstrated ability to identify market gaps, translate intricate industry challenges into strategic product opportunities, and deliver transformative solutions.

• Superior communication and presentation skills, capable of influencing executive leadership, engaging large customer accounts, and inspiring cross-functional teams.

• A master of systems thinking, adept at navigating from macro-level industry trends and business objectives down to critical architectural and user experience details.

• Comfortable thriving in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, demonstrating strong leadership through ambiguity and rapid change.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with global manufacturing operations and distributed supply chains.

• Strong technical acumen with an understanding of modern cloud architectures, API strategies, and data integration patterns relevant to industrial software.

• A strong network within the manufacturing and supply chain technology ecosystem.

Benefits & Perks

• Health Insurance; medical, vision, dental, & life insurance.

• Paid Parental Leave.

• Employee Stock Option Plan.

• Team outings, group lunches, open office, happy hours.

• Paid holidays, sick days.

• Flexible Friday and PTO.

• 401K.

First Resonance is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.

First Resonance participates in E-Verify. As part of our onboarding process, a new hire's Form I-9 information will be shared with the federal government to confirm they are authorized to work in the U.S.

Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location.

First Resonance accelerates the speed and reliability of hardware development for companies manufacturing the next generation of hardware products. This includes space exploration, electric airplanes, autonomous vehicles, nuclear reactors, robotics, and more. We are a group of software, hardware, and manufacturing engineers that are bringing the best of modern UX and data science to an industry that has been overly rigid in its innovation. We are removing the barriers preventing radical advancement by providing tools to manufacturing engineers and operators to move information more freely, collaborate with their teams more easily, and use the power of data to predict problems and provide insights that result in better hardware quality and delivery.