Product Lead
First Resonance
First Resonance is seeking a Product Lead (PL) to join our small team. Each product lead is crucial and a center focal for the company and will immediately own a large portion of the product strategy. The PL will use their product experience and partner with customers, SMEs, marketing, sales, customer success, and engineering to guide our product strategy and craft detailed specifications. The PL must quickly understand manufacturing or supply chain and have a strong vision for the future of those fields and is expected to ramp up quickly. Product leaders must understand product best practices and agile methodology to maximize the impact that First Resonance and our products have on customer operations from a time savings, performance, and data quality perspective. The ideal candidate will have experience with APIs, data workflows, basic coding, design systems, and automation development.
Responsibilities
Define, communicate, and execute product strategy aligned with company goals and customer needs in the manufacturing and supply chain domains
Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify opportunities for product innovation and differentiation
Create and maintain product roadmaps, prioritizing features based on business value and customer impact
Gather and analyze customer feedback to inform product decisions and improvements
Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and customer success teams to ensure successful product implementation
Understand and contribute to basic design systems to ensure product consistency and user experience
Ensure delivery of high product quality by actively participating in debugging and troubleshooting when necessary
Develop product requirements through user stories, specifications, and wireframes
Drive the adoption of agile methodologies to optimize product development processes
Measure and report on key product metrics, including user engagement and business impact
Act as a product evangelist, presenting to stakeholders and customers on product vision and roadmaps
Collaborate with marketing and sales teams to align product messaging and features with market demands
Qualifications
5+ years of experience in product management
Strong technical background with experience in software development
Bachelor's degree in computer science, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, industrial engineering, or equivalent experience
Experience with analytics platforms (e.g. Mixpanel, Heap, Amplitude)
Experience running experimentation (e.g. Feature Flags, A/B Testing)
Experience releasing feature capabilities with a data-driven mindset
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with agile development cycles
Experience working in a “Zero Trust” regulatory, compliance environment
Experience connecting and architecting different software products, preferably with a focus on building integrations using iPaaS
Experience with manufacturing operations and end-to-end workflows (Design to Manufacture, Procure to Pay, Forecasting to Floor Management, etc.)
Experience with SaaS applications (ERP, MES, SCADA, QMS, PLM, design tools or similar)
General understanding of web services, including transport (primarily HTTP), common data formats (JSON and XML), and standard API patterns (e.g., GraphQL, REST)
Familiarity with iPaaS tools (Workato, Mulesoft, Boomi, Paragon, Prismatic, Pandium, or similar)