The posting
Job Description
The Product Manager plays a key role in defining and delivering product strategy and execution across Industrial Scientific’s portfolio of integrated safety solutions, including hardware, embedded firmware, software, and related services. The successful candidate thrives in a global, cross-functional environment and partners closely with engineering (hardware and software), design, product marketing, sales, operations, and regional teams to translate customer needs and workflows into clear, end-to-end product direction and delivered outcomes.
This role owns product discovery through delivery for integrated solutions—identifying opportunities, defining system-level requirements, prioritizing work across domains, and ensuring solutions are delivered with quality and measurable customer impact. The ideal candidate is comfortable operating across both whitespace (new workflows and emerging opportunities) and sustainment (quality, lifecycle, and reliability improvements), and can clearly communicate tradeoffs and decisions to stakeholders at all levels.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Roadmap
- Develop and maintain product strategy and roadmaps for integrated solutions that drive growth, improve customer outcomes, and strengthen competitive position across the portfolio.
- Identify product gaps and new opportunities through market analysis, customer insight, system performance data, and lifecycle considerations.
- Define outcome-based success metrics across adoption, usability, and business performance; use data to guide product decisions and tradeoffs across domains.
- Drive alignment around customer value, ensuring priorities are not siloed by hardware vs. software boundaries.
Customer & Market Insight
- Lead voice-of-customer activities, workflow observation, and market research to understand user needs, operational environments, pain points, and buying drivers across the full product lifecycle.
- Translate insights into system-level requirements that account for physical device constraints, digital experiences, connectivity, and service touchpoints.
- Conduct competitive assessments across devices, connected ecosystems, and software offerings; translate insights into differentiated product direction.
- Engage directly with customers, distributors, and internal stakeholders to validate problems, solution approaches, and tradeoffs; travel to customer sites as needed (~25%).
Product Execution (Agile / Delivery Partnership)
- Gather, prioritize, and refine requirements for integrated hardware, firmware, software, and cloud-enabled capabilities.
- Own backlog prioritization and work closely with engineering teams across disciplines to plan and deliver coordinated releases on a regular cadence.
- Review sprint and milestone deliverables, validate acceptance criteria, and partner with teams to ensure high-quality, reliable releases that function as a cohesive system.
- Balance new capabilities, usability improvements, cost, manufacturability, security, and sustainment needs based on customer and business impact.
Cross-Functional Leadership & Go-To-Market Support
- Partner with product marketing and commercial teams to define value propositions, positioning, and launch readiness for integrated solutions.
- Support strategic sales opportunities and contribute technical/functional inputs for RFIs and RFPs involving integrated products and systems.
- Act as a product champion—clearly communicating system-level strategy, decisions, dependencies, and progress to stakeholders at all levels.
Domain Credibility (Safety / Gas Detection Technology)
- Build credibility with internal and external stakeholders through understanding of key gas detection technologies, customer workflows, and the real-world constraints of deploying integrated solutions (e.g., device + connectivity + cloud experience).
Preferred Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience in product management or related technical leadership roles, preferably involving integrated hardware–software products.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with hardware, firmware, and software engineering teams and lead cross-functional delivery.
- Experience with Agile product development, backlog management, and hybrid hardware–software development models.
- Strong systems-thinking capability, with comfort managing tradeoffs across devices, connectivity, software, and services.
- Strong analytical skills and comfort working with product, customer, operational, and business performance data.
- Experience in B2B environments with complex, safety-critical, or connected products and global stakeholders.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills; ability to influence without authority.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally (approximately 25%).
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About Us
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.
About Industrial Scientific
Industrial Scientific designs and manufactures gas detection products and solutions that protect workers from hazardous conditions around the world. Since our beginnings in 1985, we have pioneered numerous technologies, including the first 3-gas detector, 6-gas detector, wireless gas detector, and even the first gas detector to be included on a NASA space shuttle.
Today, we continue to innovate and expand our hardware and software offerings to equip the connected workers of the future. Our latest solutions make it possible to see and respond to hazards in real time, bringing us one step closer to our vision of ending death on the job by 2050.
We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer
Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at [email protected].
