The Manager of Product Management will oversee both a team of technical product managers and the product roadmap for our products. This role requires close collaboration with Development, Quality Assurance (QA), and Operation teams to ensure timely and high-quality software delivery. The ideal candidate combines industry expertise, leadership skills, and a focus on quality designs for software delivery.
Occasional domestic and international travel will be required with this position.
About FulfillX by Kardex
Kardex FulfillX for AutoStore is a proven modular software platform, leveraging over 30 years of research and development to seamlessly interface with any host system. Our software development team, centrally located in Cincinnati, OH, focuses exclusively on AutoStore integration and processes which provides the most reliable and comprehensive AutoStore software solution on the market.
Your tasks
Job Purpose
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Lead and manage the product teams to ensure strong product management processes and solid designs for engineering and QA teams to release a quality software product.
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Provide feedback and call out risks from a design perspective for new features and help triage bugs.
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Foster alignment between Product management, Development, and QA teams to support software lifecycle success.
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Maintain the roadmap between all of the Kardex FulfillX portfolios and that releases for each product are aligned.
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Support the strategic goals of Kardex’s software product portfolio through proactive leadership and cross-functional collaboration.
Key Responsibilities
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Team Leadership
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Supervise and mentor Technical Product Managers and Business Analysts so that stories and tasks are clearly defined, spec docs are all encompassing, and releases are clear with functionality.
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Set clear goals, conduct performance reviews, and provide professional development opportunities.
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Cultivate a collaborative, accountable, and growth-oriented team culture.
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Product Management
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Lead and provide guidance in Product council meetings, sharing blueprints and understanding requirements to ensure features are properly developed and tested.
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Strong understanding of inventory movements and Warehouse Automation to be able to review designs, call out risks, and make sure the appropriate audience is addressed for every feature.
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Ensure that product managers are collaborating on shared features and communicating on design items that incorporate multiple teams.
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Plan roadmap with product managers that is both challenging and achievable.
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Strategic Contribution
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Drive initiatives to improve strong designs, minimize risk/gap items, and improve overall SDLC.
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Provide insights and recommendations to senior leadership on operational improvements and resource planning.
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Help drive and build KPIs for strategic decision steering on the software level.
Job Requirements
Training/Education:
Business or technical degree in software engineering or a similar field is preferred
Professional Experience:
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Extensive experience in operational leadership roles within software or technology-focused organizations.
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Strong background in Warehouse Management and automation systems.
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Proficiency in Agile methodologies and Software Development Lifecycles and ticketing systems (e.g., Jira, Azure Devops, AHA, Monday Dev).
Leadership
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Proven ability to inspire and lead diverse teams toward achieving common goals.
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Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
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Proactive in identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement.
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Committed to fostering a high-performance culture and ensuring team success.
Your profile
We Offer
- Competitive salary
- Generous paid time off
- Medical, Dental & Vision benefits
- 401k with company match
- Life, LTD & STD
Top Skills
What We Do
Kardex is a global industry partner for intralogistics solutions and a leading provider of automated storage solutions and material handling systems.
Kardex consists of two entrepreneurially managed divisions, Kardex Remstar and Kardex Mlog. Kardex Remstar develops, manufactures, and maintains dynamic storage and retrieval systems, while Kardex Mlog offers integrated material handling systems and automated high-bay warehouses.
Kardex also acts as a global AutoStore™ partner, offering flexible and modular storage and order fulfillment solutions. Kardex Remstar, Kardex Mlog, and Kardex AutoStore are partners to their customers throughout the entire life cycle of a product or solution, starting with the assessment of customer requirements, through planning, realization, and maintenance of customer-specific systems, to ensuring high availability and low life cycle costs by means of customer-oriented life cycle management.
The Group employs around 2,500 people in over 30 countries. Kardex Holding AG has been listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange since 1989.
