Product Manager - Industrial Manufacturing (Auto Industry Focus)

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

Redzone helps manufacturers make more product for less while greatly improving the employee experience. While there is a lot of hype around digital transformation, the factory of the future, and Industry 4.0, the focus has been on the equipment and technology – not the people. At Redzone, we are all about the people, what we call “the connected worker.” We make frontline teams more engaged and more productive so their lives improve while
contributing to positive business outcomes. We do this by combining exceptional software and world-class coaching, giving our customers an average productivity increase of 22% in 90 days. Redzone brings together Production, Maintenance, and Quality teams, improving the communications between those teams to resolve issues and increase output. Decision- making happens on the shop floor by the people doing the work, in real time, for immediate impact and a better overall employee experience.

With over 1000 customers, 1400 plants and 325,000 users, Redzone is changing the way people work – one plant at a time.

This is a full-time position for direct hire to QAD-no visa sponsorship available. Employee must be currently located in the United States.

We’re looking for a highly motivated, experienced Product Manager to focus on enhancing our core application and web admin experiences for Redzone’s industrial manufacturing customers. This role is part of our Industrial team, responsible for delivering value to customers with complex manufacturing operations such as assembly lines, with a strong preference for experience in the automotive industry or with automotive suppliers.
You will work closely with Engineering, Design, Coaching, Marketing, Sales, and Support teams, as well as directly with customers to identify needs, validate solutions, and bring thoughtful, high-impact features to life. The ideal candidate will bring a strong product mindset, deep empathy for industrial users, and demonstrated experience delivering enterprise SaaS solutions.

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand customer needs in industrial and automotive manufacturing environments.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to define, design, and ship valuable features in our Redzone application and web admin.
• Support Redzone’s product strategy cadence with feature enhancements tailored to complex manufacturing workflows like assembly lines.
• Prioritize and define enhancements that surface productivity insights, identify loss points, and empower shop floor decision-making.
• Translate needs into user stories, product requirements and wireframes.
• Conduct feature validation through testing and real-time user feedback.
• Align internal stakeholders across Coaching, Sales, Support, and Marketing.
• Contribute to iterative design and retrospectives with Engineering and Design teams.

Required Skills

• Strong product management fundamentals with experience managing full product lifecycle.
• Exceptional listening and communication skills, able to distill complex requirements.
• Experience supporting auto manufacturing or auto supply chain customers.
• Ability to define goals, success metrics, and value impact for new features.
• Self-starter with proactive attitude and strong organizational skills.
• Familiarity with Jira, Figma, and wireframing tools such as Balsamiq.

Education/Experience

Required:

• 10+ Years of total professional experience.
• 3 years in a Product Management role.
• Experience working with manufacturing technology in automotive or similar industrial sectors.
• Experience designing and delivering web-based SaaS solutions.

Desired:

• Experience supporting deskless workers (e.g., in manufacturing, field services).
• Experience using the Redzone product.

Compensation Package:

• Base pay range: $140,000-150,000 USD Annual (12 Months)
• Placement within our pay range will vary based on knowledge, skills, experience, and market location variations as well as internal peer equity.
• This position is also eligible for an annual company performance bonus.
• U.S. benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan with company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, paid-time off, parental leave, and well-being programs.

About QAD and QAD Redzone:

QAD Inc. is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer preferences. In order to survive and thrive, manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises.

QAD Redzone helps to enable QAD’s vision for the Adaptive Enterprise. Labor productivity improvements directly impact efficiency. Productive and empowered employees increase the effective capacity of your plant and accelerate time to productivity for new employees giving manufacturers the agility to increase production beyond what was previously possible without having to invest in production equipment or new plants, and reduce the amount and impact of employee attrition. Empowered employees with a growth mindset take extreme ownership of challenges that impact their production goals, creating resilience in the face of disruption.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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