- Own product strategy, vision, and roadmap for assigned product portfolio; set ambitious yet achievable goals aligned with company objectives and market opportunities
- Lead cross-functional teams including engineering, design, marketing, and sales to define strategy, and align priorities
- Establish and measure product success through comprehensive KPIs; drive data-informed decision-making and use analytics to optimize product performance and ROI
- Build and manage strategic customer relationships; conduct regular customer research and feedback sessions to inform product direction and stay ahead of market needs
- Mentor product managers; foster a culture of continuous learning and best practice sharing within the product organization
- Develop competitive positioning, pricing strategies, and go-to-market plans that drive market share growth and revenue expansion
Specific Product Responsibilities:
- Conduct comprehensive market and customer research to identify emerging opportunities, validate assumptions, and uncover unmet customer needs; synthesize insights into actionable product strategy
- Partner with executive leadership to influence product direction and align with broader company strategy, financial goals, and market positioning
- Manage product P&L including budget allocation, revenue forecasting, and ensuring products deliver targeted profitability and market impact
- Lead competitive analysis and positioning; monitor market trends and competitor activity to maintain product differentiation and market leadership
- Own the discovery and requirements process; work with engineering to balance technical feasibility, business value, and market impact in feature prioritization decisions
- Drive launch strategy, go-to-market execution, and product adoption with cross-functional alignment; measure success against launch metrics and optimize based on results
- Manage product lifecycle decisions with business acumen; evaluate and implement pricing and EOL strategies that maximize customer value and company revenue
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Demonstrated success launching and scaling products; track record of delivering revenue impact
- Strategic thinker with strong business acumen; able to balance customer needs, market opportunities, and business goals to drive product strategy and prioritization
- Demonstrated leadership skills; ability to influence and align cross-functional teams without direct authority; comfortable presenting to executive leadership
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills; able to craft compelling narratives around product vision, competitive positioning, and value propositions
- Data-driven decision maker; strong analytical and quantitative skills; comfortable with financial analysis, metrics frameworks, and building data-driven business cases
- Strong customer empathy and research skills; experience conducting customer interviews, analyzing feedback, and translating insights into product direction
- Technical acumen and comfort collaborating with engineers; able to understand technical complexity and make informed trade-off decisions
- Mentoring and team development experience; ability to elevate junior product managers and foster a culture of continuous improvement
- Proficiency with product management tools (Atlassian, Monday.com), analytics platforms, Microsoft Office, and related software applications
- Comfortable leveraging AI tools to enhance product management activities, including research, analysis, documentation, and strategic planning
- Willing and able to travel as needed, including internationally (~5-10%)
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field
- 7+ years of product management experience required
Physical Demands:
None specified.
Work Environment:
Hybrid- 3 days week in office (Schaumburg, IL)
Benefits:
- Health, Dental, Vision
- Employer Paid Life/STD/LTD
- 401K + Company Match
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Educational Assistance
- Competitive PTO Package & Paid Company Holidays
- Wellness Program
Behavioral Assessment
In addition to supplying us with your resume, we ask that you take our Behavioral Assessment through Predictive Index by going to the following link:
https://assessment.predictiveindex.com/bo/B3WV/ProductMarketingManager_Apr2026_190327
Tips:
- Complete the assessment in a quiet place, free from interruption, in one session
- Take as much time as you wish to complete this assessment—typically takes <7 minutes
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- 7+ years of product management experience
- Demonstrated success launching and scaling products with measurable revenue impact
- Strong strategic thinking and business acumen
- Ability to influence and align cross-functional teams without direct authority
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including financial analysis and metrics frameworks
- Customer research and customer empathy experience
- Technical acumen and ability to collaborate with engineering teams
- Mentoring and team development experience
- Proficiency with product management tools, analytics platforms, Microsoft Office, and related software
- Comfort leveraging AI tools for product management activities
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally as needed, approximately 5–10%
What We Do
rf IDEAS began in 1995 as an early pioneer of proximity-based authentication and identification solutions. Today, we continue to lead the way with an innovative portfolio of credential readers that are compatible with nearly every proximity, contactless smartcard and, now, mobile credential available on the market. We’re your go-to authority for access control, partnering with leading technology companies to provide authentication, identification and logical access control solutions for single sign-on, multifunction printing, manufacturing processes, dispensing, computer and network access, attendance tracking, interactive kiosks and other secure identity applications. Together with our partners, we support a broad range of enterprises, including healthcare, manufacturing, government, education and more. Our WAVE ID® platform includes single-frequency, dual-frequency and mobile credential readers in a wide selection of form factors and options, along with the software development kits that device manufacturers need to suit practically any enterprise application beyond basic door access. We’re also addressing the demand for new technologies such as biometric readers, and we pledge to remain at the forefront as future applications create demand for new authentication methods. As an ISO 9001:2015 Certified company, rf IDEAS maintains a quality management system that spans all of our operations to ensure that processes, quality and overall management always meet the high expectations of our customers, channel partners and suppliers. And we bring the same quality focus to the training and support we offer for rf IDEAS partners and customers. In our values-driven corporate culture, we believe that success requires more than expertise. It takes a collaborative spirit. Speed and agility in response to every need. And trust earned with every promise kept, every challenge solved. If you share these values, we invite you to join us for a more secure and productive world. rf IDEAS is a subsidiary of Roper Technologies. Learn more and connect with us.
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