Product Manager - Building Automation

Company: Fortive Corporation
Location: Everett
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

Are you an experienced Product Manager with a strong sales and/or marketing background? If so, we'd like to hear from you! Our dynamic Product Management team is looking to add someone with strong commercial skills to take the reins of a fast-growing product category and deliver strong near-term performance while creating the strategic vision and roadmap for the future.You'll be joining a well-established team selling market-leading brands (Setra, Gems Sensors), and will have significant opportunity for growth & development. Our culture is based on innovation and continuous improvement. Every day we strive to make the organization a little better than it was the day before. We ask the tough questions and push each other to be bold. This occurs in an environment that fosters authenticity and transparency.Essential Functions:

• Manage the power meter and HVAC sensor portfolio of solutions for building automation
• Define and drive commercial strategy, including expanding field sales presence and setting overall marketing strategy.
• Partner across sales and marketing to ensure go-to-market strategy is aligned with product strategy, customer needs, and overall market trends.
• Customer Obsessed - Engage with customers to understand workflows, functional needs, buying journeys, and support needs.
• Pair customer insights with deep product understanding to set product strategy. Create product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements, revenue, and ROI.
• Enable sales and orders growth targets by actively driving product lifecycle processes for products, including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning, positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, and product launch.
• Communicate product strategy to other functional areas such as engineering, sales, digital marketing and other key stake holders within the organization including executive management
• Understand how your products compare to competitors in order to assess competition in the market
• Support customer issue resolution and manage order status with operations where necessary
• Establish and maintain productive, professional relationships with key personnel in assigned distribution partners.
• Work closely with engineering teams to solve issues and drive new product developmentEducation & Experience Required:
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience, with at least 2 years of direct experience in product management, preferably within a relevant industry (building automation / sensing technologies)
  • Strong foundation in commercial fundamentals, including go-to-market, sales enablement, pricing, positioning, strategy development and understanding customer need.
  • Experience managing strategic partners preferred.
  • Foundational knowledge of markets and products related to commercial power metering and HVAC environmental management preferred.Desired Skills:
    • Analytical & logical fact-based problem solver.
    • Strategic thinker with ability to keep a pulse on both overall company objectives and user needs
    • Strong communication and presentation abilities to groups, large and small.
    • Resourceful, collaborative teammate.
    • Owner mentality.
    • Effective at time management and priority setting.
    • Engineering savvy (e.g. ability to read schematics).
    • Savvy with Microsoft suite of tools.
    • Familiar with Salesforce.
    • Can travel domestically and internationally, 25%.Education:
      • Bachelor's Degree in related field is required (technical degree preferred).
      • MBA with relevant focus preferred.The associate must also be willing and able to travel by all forms of transportation.#LI-JW1Fortive Corporation OverviewFortive'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 17,000 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 Gems SetraBonus or Equity
        This position is also eligible for bonus as part of the total compensation package.Pay Range
        The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 101,500.00 - 188,500.00
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