Senior Manager, Product Management

Markforged (NYSE: MKFG) is reinventing the $1 trillion+ worldwide manufacturing industry so that engineers can build anything they imagine while reducing environmental impact. With the market’s most robust 3D printing hardware, software and material solution, a world-class team, great customers and abundant capital, we’re well placed to continue our growth and innovation. 

Location: Waltham, MA (Hybrid, with 4 days/week in-office presence expected)
Reports To: General Manager, FFF

Empower the Future of Manufacturing

Our mission: bring industrial production to the point of need, empowering the creation of robust, high- performance parts that solve real-world problems. The Digital Forge—our integrated platform of advanced 3D printers, materials, and intelligent Eiger™ software—transforms product design and production. We enable critical tooling, fixtures, and end-use parts with unparalleled strength and precision for leading manufacturing and aerospace organizations.

The Opportunity:

As a Senior Manager of Product Management, you’ll play a key role in executing our roadmap while influencing its evolution. You’ll work cross-functionally to deliver best-in-class products, contribute to long-term strategy, and help identify breakthrough opportunities that set us apart in the market.

This role combines  deep executional ownership with a strategic mindset —you’ll define requirements, lead product delivery, evaluate new opportunities, and contribute to product decisions that accelerate innovation and growth. You’ll help us challenge the status quo and uncover the next generation of disruptive solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Shape & Execute the Roadmap: Own key portions of the product roadmap across hardware, software, and materials. Translate strategy into actionable plans and deliver them in partnership with Engineering, R&D, and Operations.
• Champion Disruptive Innovation: Help identify and validate disruptive product opportunities—new technologies, business models, or workflows—that offer step-change benefits to our customers and business.
• Market & Customer Insight: Lead customer interviews, market research, and competitive analysis to identify unmet needs and guide tactical and strategic decisions. Partner with Applications Engineering to understand customer challenges.
• Business &Financial Modeling: Build models to size market opportunities, evaluate ROI, and support pricing and investment tradeoffs.
• Cross-Functional Execution: Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Application Engineering, Operations, and Support to ensure successful launches, clear messaging, and strong product-market fit.
• Customer-Centric Thinking: Advocate for user needs throughout the product lifecycle, and continuously iterate based on feedback and performance metrics.
• Drive Product Metrics : Define success criteria, track KPIs (adoption, usage, satisfaction, revenue), and use data to inform future development.
• Build and Nurture Talent: Recruit, mentor, and lead a world-class product management team. Cultivate a culture of high performance, learning, ownership, and collaboration.

About You

• Experience: 8-10+ years in product management, with 2+ years of people management experience. Experience with product management of complex electromechanical hardware and/or full-stack systems. Experience delivering products in industrial or B2B settings preferred.
• Education : Bachelor’s in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Materials Science, etc.) strongly preferred. MBA or equivalent business experience.
• T rack Record of Disruption: Demonstrated success identifying and championing innovative or disruptive solutions that significantly shifted product or market direction.
• Strategic & Tactical: Comfortable shaping roadmap priorities and business models while staying close to execution and delivery.
• Technically Fluent: Able to engage deeply with Engineering and R&D teams on electromechanical and materials-related topics.
• Business-Savvy: Skilled at market sizing, opportunity evaluation, and financial modeling to support strategic tradeoffs.
• Analytical & Curious: Strong data orientation, with an ability to balance intuition, experimentation, and evidence.
• Great Communicator: Clear and persuasive communicator across technical and non-technical audiences. Excellent collaboration skills and ability to influence others.
• Customer-Focused: Deeply curious about user problems and motivated to build products that solve them effectively.
• Results-Driven Achiever: Proactive, self-motivated, with strong ownership and focus on impactful, measurable results.
• Relevant Industry Background: Highly preferred experience in advanced manufacturing, robotics, industrial automation, or complex electro-mechanical systems. Experience in aerospace, defense, automotive, or manufacturing equipment is a significant plus.
• Travel: Ability to travel ~15% for customer visits, industry events, and internal collaboration.

Why Markforged?

Collaborate with brilliant minds in engineering, materials science, and software, driven by:

• Purposeful Innovation: We aim to deliver step-change value to our customers, not incremental tweaks.
• Collective Success: We win as one team"—collaboration, respect, and shared learning are key.
• Empowered Ownership: We encourage initiative, accountability, and a pursuit of excellence. Everyone has a voice and a stake in our success.
• Unwavering Customer Focus:  Customer success is our measure; we're committed to solving their challenges.
• Continuous growth:  Lifelong learners, fostering curiosity, professional development, and career progression.

Perks & Benefits

For all US-based roles, we offer a competitive compensation package and a full suite of benefits, including medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k), parental leave, commuter benefits, open PTO policy, and more. Our work environment includes casual dress, a fully stocked kitchen, bike storage, free parking, weekly catered lunches, and fitness perks. You will have unlimited access to our 3D printers for professional and personal parts!

If you are ready to make a significant impact and lead at the cutting edge of manufacturing technology, we invite you to apply.

To all recruitment agencies: Markforged does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our job’s alias or Markforged employees. Markforged is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Markforged is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

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Why Markforged?

Help us reinvent manufacturing.

We are reinventing manufacturing so that engineers can build anything they imagine.

We are one team that wins together!

You will be engaging every day with passionate and dedicated individuals in a collaborative environment working towards making best-in-class products.

Perks & Benefits

For all US-based roles, we offer a competitive compensation package and a full suite of benefits, including medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k), parental leave, commuter benefits, open PTO policy, and more. Our work environment includes casual dress, a fully stocked kitchen, bike storage, free parking, weekly catered lunches, and fitness perks. You will have unlimited access to our 3D printers for professional and personal parts!

To all recruitment agencies: Markforged does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or Markforged employees. Markforged is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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