We're looking for a strategic and customer-focused Product Manager to lead the evolution of our nCode DesignLife and GlyphWorks software suite. This role is pivotal in defining and supporting the development of industry-leading durability, fatigue, and engineering data analytics solutions that deliver exceptional value to our customers and the business.
As Product Manager, you will work closely with customers, application engineers, software developers, and portfolio leadership to shape the future of our durability and reliability offerings while ensuring alignment with broader business objectives and technology strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the product vision and roadmap for nCode DesignLife and GlyphWorks, aligning customer needs, market opportunities, and business objectives.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, and Engineering teams to define, prioritize, and deliver capabilities that provide measurable customer value.
- Engage directly with customers, industry partners, and key stakeholders to understand workflows, validate requirements, and identify emerging market trends.
- Define and communicate product strategy, ensuring transparency and alignment across internal teams, sales channels, and portfolio leadership.
- Support PI Planning and Inspect & Adapt events, providing product context, priorities, and feedback to Scrum teams and the Agile Release Train (ART).
- Represent the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring solutions meet the needs of durability engineers, simulation analysts, test engineers, and data scientists.
- Collaborate with product marketing and sales teams to develop positioning, messaging, training, and go-to-market activities for new releases and strategic initiatives.
- Monitor product performance, adoption, and customer satisfaction, using data and feedback to drive continuous improvement.
- Champion innovation and technical excellence, ensuring nCode remains a market leader in fatigue analysis, durability engineering, and engineering data analytics.
- Drive integration strategy across the wider HBK software portfolio and key technology partners, supporting connected engineering workflows from simulation through testing and reliability.
Qualifications
- Extensive experience with nCode DesignLife, GlyphWorks, durability engineering, fatigue analysis, or related engineering software solutions.
- Strong understanding of fatigue methods, durability validation processes, CAE-driven design, test data analysis, and engineering simulation workflows.
- Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical discipline.
- Proven experience in product management, application engineering, durability engineering, or a related technical leadership role.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear product direction.
- Experience working with Agile development methodologies and cross-functional software development teams.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to engage effectively with customers, partners, and internal leadership.
- Ability to balance strategic planning with hands-on execution in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with fatigue and durability standards, including strain-life, stress-life, vibration fatigue, and multiaxial fatigue methodologies.
- Knowledge of simulation-driven development processes and CAE tools such as Ansys, Abaqus, Nastran, OptiStruct, or similar platforms.
- Experience with engineering test data acquisition, processing, and analysis methodologies.
- Familiarity with cloud-based engineering workflows, digital engineering platforms, and modern software architectures.
- Experience presenting at industry conferences, customer forums, or user group meetings.
Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity to shape the future of industry-leading engineering software used by automotive, aerospace, transportation, energy, and industrial organizations around the world. You will work alongside highly skilled engineers and software professionals while helping customers design safer, more reliable, and more durable products.
We Offer
At HBK, we believe in freedom with responsibility. We offer a flexible and collaborative work environment that supports both professional growth and work-life balance. You will have the opportunity to work with modern technologies, influence technical direction, and help shape the future of software engineering within a global technology leader.
About HBK
On January 1, 2019, Brüel & Kjær and HBM merged to form HBK (Hottinger Brüel & Kjær). With over 3,500 employees worldwide, production facilities in Denmark, Germany, the UK, the USA, China, and Portugal, and a presence in 80 countries, HBK is a global leader in test and measurement solutions. Learn more at https://www.hbkworld.com.
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Skills Required
- Extensive experience with nCode DesignLife, GlyphWorks, durability engineering, fatigue analysis, or related engineering software solutions
- Strong understanding of fatigue methods, durability validation, CAE-driven design, test data analysis, and engineering simulation workflows
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical discipline
- Experience in product management, application engineering, durability engineering, or a related technical leadership role
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience with Agile development methodologies and cross-functional software development teams
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to balance strategic planning with hands-on execution
- Experience with fatigue and durability standards, including strain-life, stress-life, vibration fatigue, and multiaxial fatigue methodologies
- Knowledge of simulation-driven development processes and CAE tools such as Ansys, Abaqus, Nastran, or OptiStruct
- Experience with engineering test data acquisition, processing, and analysis methodologies
- Familiarity with cloud-based engineering workflows, digital engineering platforms, and modern software architectures
- Experience presenting at industry conferences, customer forums, or user group meetings
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is portrayed as generous, including PTO and paid holidays, with mentions of four weeks of vacation for new U.S. hires.
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What We Do
Hottinger Brüel & Kjær was founded in 2019, when HBM and Brüel & Kjær merged their activities into a new company. Both companies are market leaders in their respective disciplines – Brüel & Kjær in sound and vibration and HBM in reliability, durability, propulsion efficiency and weighing. Together, they cover the complete product physics domain. In technical terms, Brüel & Kjær is the frequency domain expert and HBM the time domain expert. HBK helps its customers reduce time-to-market by simultaneously performing tests, retrieving and analyzing data, aiding decision-making
