Director of Product Management

Join MISUMI Americas as the Director of Product Management, where you will lead the product strategy and integrated roadmap across multiple domains, including catalog platform, e-commerce experience, supply chain, customer experience, and business systems. You will manage a substantial product management organization, drive alignment across product areas, and represent the product domain in senior leadership forums. This role requires a strong background in product management, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic thinking.

• Own the product strategy and integrated roadmap across multiple product domains, ensuring investments are focused on the highest-value opportunities for customers and the business.
• Lead, develop, and manage a substantial product management organization, building a high-performing team with strong product judgment, communication discipline, and execution rigor.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for cross-functional issues within the domain, driving resolution through clear communication, good judgment, and constructive tradeoff decisions.
• Track record of building and maintaining integrated roadmaps across multiple teams or product areas, including managing cross-domain dependencies and stakeholder alignment
• Proven ability to develop PM talent — hiring, coaching, and growing product managers into more senior and independent contributors
• Results orientation: focused on outcomes, not just output — able to hold the team accountable to impact while navigating ambiguity and change
• Influence without authority: builds trust and earns credibility across Engineering, Operations, and commercial functions through strong judgment, follow-through, and genuine partnership
• Strong analytical skills: ability to evaluate opportunity size, build business cases, and use data to drive high-quality decisions across a complex product portfolio
• Experience with Agile methodologies and the ability to apply them to drive execution discipline at the team level
• Working understanding of how AI is reshaping the product management role — including which PM activities are being automated, which are becoming more valuable, and what that means for how to recruit, develop, and evaluate a product team in this environment
• Demonstrated success leading product strategy and execution for a large-catalog B2B or B2C e-commerce platform — experience with catalog scale (hundreds of thousands to millions of SKUs), search and navigation, pricing display and transactional workflows is required
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
• 10+ years of product management experience, with at least 4 years leading and managing a multi-layered PM organization that includes both individual contributors and people managers
• Excellent communication: able to articulate strategy and tradeoffs clearly to both executive audiences and cross-functional teams, in writing and in conversation
• Experience using customer insights, operational data, and business metrics to drive strategic product decisions and roadmap evolution
• Strong background in cross-functional collaboration, with demonstrated experience partnering with Engineering, Design, Operations, and commercial functions to deliver meaningful outcomes
• People leadership: proven ability to develop product managers — coaching for growth, delivering honest feedback, and building a high-performing, high-trust team
• Strategic thinking: ability to synthesize business goals, customer insights, operational realities, and technology constraints into a clear, prioritized product direction
• Experience building and gaining senior leadership alignment on product strategy, business cases, and investment prioritization
• Active and advancing AI practice: uses AI tools as a genuine accelerant across discovery, synthesis, prototyping, and decision-making — and is actively building toward team-level AI workflows that raise the collective capability of the PM organization, not just personal efficiency
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard, fingers, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, crawl, reach, and stretch
• Comfortable navigating systems with deep interdependencies and integrations, including large-scale catalog, transactional, and operational platforms
• Experience in or exposure to new hardware product development, factory automation, or mechanical/industrial engineering — understanding of the engineering workflows that drive demand for industrial components
• Background in industrial parts supply, distribution, or manufacturing supply chain, including familiarity with how procurement teams and engineers source mechanical components
• Experience managing product platforms with complex configurability requirements — such as parametric search, attribute-based filtering, or custom order logic at scale
• Familiarity with business systems and operational tooling (e.g., ERP integrations, OMS, WMS) and how they intersect with customer-facing product experiences