MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. By integrating a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform, MISUMI Americas empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle. With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, the company serves as a vital partner for the most innovative companies in the Americas. ### Experience:
Skills
Strategic thinking: ability to synthesize business goals, customer insights, operational realities, and technology constraints into a clear, prioritized product direction
People leadership: proven ability to develop product managers — coaching for growth, delivering honest feedback, and building a high-performing, high-trust team
Strong analytical skills: ability to evaluate opportunity size, build business cases, and use data to drive high-quality decisions across a complex product portfolio
Excellent communication: able to articulate strategy and tradeoffs clearly to both executive audiences and cross-functional teams, in writing and in conversation
Influence without authority: builds trust and earns credibility across Engineering, Operations, and commercial functions through strong judgment, follow-through, and genuine partnership
Results orientation: focused on outcomes, not just output — able to hold the team accountable to impact while navigating ambiguity and change
Comfortable navigating systems with deep interdependencies and integrations, including large-scale catalog, transactional, and operational platforms
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
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