Senior Product Line Manager – AOI Systems | Nordson Corporation
Are you passionate about bridging advanced inspection technology with real-world manufacturing challenges? At Nordson, we’re looking for a Product Line Manager to lead our AOI (Automated Optical Inspection) product portfolio—driving innovation and delivering solutions that make a difference on the factory floor.
In this role, you’ll own the full product lifecycle—from concept to commercialization—and bring your application experience to the table to ensure our products solve real customer problems. You’ll work cross-functionally with engineering, sales, marketing, and customer support to guide development, shape strategy, and fuel growth.
What You’ll Do:
- Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of AOI products, including roadmap planning, product launches, and sustaining support
- Leverage your hands-on application experience to define use cases, validate features, and ensure product-market fit
- Analyze market trends, customer needs, and competitive insights to drive product enhancements and innovation
- Lead go-to-market strategies including pricing, positioning, packaging, and promotion for a global customer base
- Collaborate closely with R&D, applications, and field teams to turn customer feedback into actionable product improvements
- Support future product development initiatives aligned with long-term business objectives
What You Bring:
- Strong background in AOI technology or inspection systems, with practical application and field experience
- Ability to translate technical insights into strategic product direction
- Experience managing complex, high-tech product lines in a B2B environment
- Excellent communication skills and a passion for solving customer challenges
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Nordson is a team of 7,300 global employees thriving in an environment where they are supported and encouraged to be their best. Working side by side, we build meaningful connections with each other and our customers. Together, we deliver products that are solutions, and they’re likely touching your life every day. Have you ever changed a diaper? Opened a box of cereal? Used a smart phone or driven a car? Then we’ve already met. At Nordson, we take pride in being an outstanding corporate citizen and strongly believe in sharing our success with the communities where our employees live and work. Whether you’re working in one of our labs, offices or manufacturing facilities, your efforts will enable our customers to succeed and our company to continuously improve and grow. We engineer, manufacture and market differentiated products and systems used for precision dispensing and processing in a variety of end markets, from packaging to transportation and medical to electronics. Founded in 1954, we operate under the values of integrity, respect for people, customer passion, energy and excellence. Nordson is headquartered in the United States in Westlake, Ohio, and has direct operations in more than 30 countries to support our products and systems with application expertise and a direct global sales and service organization
