Power Quality Product Manager

Day in the Life of a Power Quality Product Manager

In this role, you are responsible for building a winning product strategy to drive long-term growth in Fluke’s Power Quality business. On a typical day, you might conduct some voice-of-customer research to bolster and reinforce your understanding of the pain points faced by our customers that can be addressed through product innovation. You then might have a call with the engineering lead for your soon-to-be-launched new product to problem-solve a technical feasibility issue with the lens of how any required changes might affect the customer. Later, you’ll meet with the product marketing team to finalize a campaign for the existing products in your portfolio. Success in this role means you’ve got your eye on what needs to happen now to drive short-term commercial success and what needs to happen in the long-term to drive growth in the business. While you’ll work cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, operations, and quality, among others, your core teammates will be other Product Managers, applications and solutions specialists, and business operations.

Responsibilities

• Leads strategy and decision-making for the product line.
• Builds plans and programs driven by customer needs, expressed in both product roadmaps and business justification communications.
• Deep subject matter authority understanding of customer product feature trade-offs, workflow management, and compensating behaviors
• Monitors competition and global market positions
• Is responsible for the customer segmentation of the business and determines which markets & market segments to address.
• Leads the successful conversion of key roadmap priorities into profitable business plans via lean product development methodology.
• Leads the product lifecycle process with a commercial focus, from conceptualization to roadmap, to end-of-life policies and execution.
• Partners with Regional Commercial Strategy Managers to understand regional differences in the market and customer.

Your Team

You’ll join an international team of product and customer experts with a diverse range of experiences. We work cross functionally to define and execute strategy for our product lines. While much of our work is done virtually, we are intentional about when it’s optimal to be in person and enjoy in-person team time throughout the year.

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Technical/Engineering; MBA preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive and broad-based product marketing, product development, program management, technical marketing, brand, and product leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience in leading bold product planning strategies applying Voice of the Customer (VOC) to identify growth opportunities for the company.
• Experience working within branded B2B and/or B2C environments with exposure to large-scale projects and cross-functional team leadership.
• Ability to lead and operate effectively in a matrix organization.

Personal Skills

• Strategic Leader– able to convert ground-breaking ideas to practical steps & solutions that deliver real results; Predicts serious product flaws and countermeasures.
• Collaborative – able to lead inter-company and cross-functional teams to meet targets.
• Ability to influence others - able to advise, convince, and persuade others to action on key initiatives.
• Results orientation – able to motivate change through others to deliver measurable results.
• Customer Obsessed – Proven track record of deriving relevant customer insights that can be turned into compelling end-user solutions, focusing the team on customer needs and associated market potential.

Why you should join Fluke

Join our team to be the primary decision maker for the Global product line - building robust product roadmaps, crafting business models to support new product launches, and leading new product projects through Fluke’s agile product development process. At Fluke, you’ll benefit from learning and using the Fortive Business System while you become immersed in our continuous improvement culture.

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.

We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact. 

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference. 

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone. 

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating. 

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth. 

Ready to move your career forward? Find out more at careers.fortive.com.

Fluke Corporation is the world leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of electronic test tools and software. We are a dynamic market leader with sound financial health. Fluke has achieved the number one or number two position in every market in which it competes. The Fluke brand has a reputation for portability, ruggedness, safety, ease of use and rigid standards of quality. A wholly owned subsidiary of Fortive Corporation (www.fortive.com), Fluke is a multi-national corporation headquartered in the greater Seattle area. We offer an entrepreneurial environment that is team-centered, customer-driven, quality-focused, and growth-oriented. It is driven by the phenomenally successful Fortive Business System. Working at Fluke gives you access to a robust career development process and challenging, “stretch” opportunities