Product Manager

Product Manager

As a Product Manager at Sauna360, you will guide products through their full lifecycle, from early concept to launch and beyond, helping ensure they meet real customer needs while delivering strong business results. You will partner closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Quality, and Project Management to bring ideas to life and keep products performing in market.

You will operate within a stage gate development model and serve as a key connection point across teams, translating customer and market insights into clear product direction. This includes building requirements, supporting business cases, and helping ensure alignment from concept through launch. If you are curious, collaborative, and customer focused, and you enjoy building products grounded in real customer insights, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact while growing within a business that is investing in the future.

Own assigned products across the full lifecycle, from early concept and discovery through development, launch, and ongoing performance, ensuring products deliver on customer needs, quality expectations, and business outcomes.

Gather and synthesize voice of customer input from customers, dealers, sales teams, and field data, translating those insights into clear product requirements, user experiences, and positioning strategies.

Act as a central connector across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Quality, aligning on priorities, managing trade-offs, and helping drive execution forward.

Lead product execution within a stage gate framework, ensuring milestones are met and that teams are prepared for successful, on-time product launches.

Develop product roadmaps, business cases, and competitive insights by combining market research, consumer trends, and analytical thinking, often taking a hands-on approach without dedicated research support.

Make informed, data-driven recommendations that account for engineering feasibility, cost targets, margin expectations, quality outcomes, and the overall user experience.

Monitor performance across sales, margin, cost, and quality, and lead initiatives that enhance product value over time, including cost optimization and lifecycle improvements.

Build and deliver presentations and product stories that influence stakeholders and senior leadership, helping align teams and move initiatives forward.

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience

5+ years of product management experience, including taking products from ideation through commercialization

Experience working with consumer products, with preference for durable goods or high-ticket products

Strong understanding of product lifecycle management and stage gate processes

Experience with voice of customer, market insights, competitive analysis, and user-centered design concepts

Demonstrated ability to build product strategies, roadmaps, and business cases

Strong cross-functional collaboration, communication, and organizational skills

Ability to partner with engineering on design for manufacturability, cost, and quality considerations

Proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, ERP systems, and project tracking tools such as Smartsheet

Strong presentation and storytelling skills, including communication with senior leadership

Highly organized and self-directed, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently

Willingness to travel approximately 10 to 15 percent for dealer visits and conferences

At Sauna360, a Watkins Wellness company, we believe that everyone should 'Feel good. Live well'. We offer employees the opportunity to join a dynamic, growing industry leader with an outstanding and well-deserved reputation for leadership and commitment to our employees, customers and community. Our employees are eligible to receive exceptional health and wellness benefits, paid time off, company bonus, profit sharing, 401k match, education assistance, and much more. We are proud of the people we are and the products we make — products that make a difference to the health and well-being of others.

We look for candidates that exhibit The Watkins Way (always Ethical, endeavors to be Transparent, embraces Inclusion, welcomes Diverse backgrounds and perspectives, Accommodating, believes in Work-Life Balance, puts Safety First, Accountable, values Relationships, Passionate, Team Player, and Goal Driven).

The employee must frequently lift and move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

Hiring Range: $76400.00-$120010.00

Many factors are taken into consideration in determining pay, including education and location.

Company: Watkins Wellness