Product Manager

Emerson•Austin, TX

About The Position

As a Senior Product Manager, you will help drive strategy and execution for Emerson’s Mixed Signal hardware portfolio. This dynamic, learning-oriented role involves working with a wide range of stakeholders and visibility to executive leadership. You will collaborate cross-functionally with R&D, Marketing, and Sales to understand customer problems and develop product strategies that differentiate solutions in the market. Working alongside product managers and leadership, you will translate customer needs into product features and benefits. You will receive mentorship from other product managers and support them with technical, analytical, and operational work while building your own product strategy skills. NI platform experience is required. The role includes developing product positioning and messaging, representing product management in sales training and customer engagements, conveying customer and business requirements to R&D, creating content to drive product awareness and demand, supporting pre-sales as a subject matter expert, monitoring product performance and health, and representing NI at industry events. The successful candidate builds trust, influences without authority, negotiates effectively, focuses on customer outcomes, and is comfortable with ambiguity in high-stakes situations. Emerson describes its culture as valuing and respecting employees, encouraging innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives, and supporting career development through mentorship, training, and leadership opportunities. The company also emphasizes employee wellbeing and offers flexible benefits to address physical, mental, financial, and social needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or mechanical engineering.
3 to 5 years of relevant work experience; internships and co-ops count.
NI platform experience is required; experience may be with NI software only, though a combination of software and hardware is preferred.
Legal authorization to work in the U.S.; visa sponsorship will not be provided.

Nice To Haves

3–5 years of experience at NI, an NI partner, or in the broader test and measurement ecosystem.
Hands-on NI product experience, including LabVIEW, data acquisition, PXI, or other academic products.
Business and technical acumen grounded in intellectual honesty, sound judgment, transparency, and a commitment to doing what is right for the product and business.
Ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Adaptability and self-motivation, including the ability to learn quickly, thrive in ambiguity, and take initiative.

Responsibilities

Develop product positioning and messaging, including market segmentation, application deep dives, and messaging that reflects the product value proposition.
Partner with Marketing and Sales; represent product management in sales training on positioning and competitive analysis and in external customer engagements, including key customer visits and senior-level meetings.
Work with key R&D leaders to communicate business and customer perspectives and define the customer problems products should solve.
Create white papers, presentations, videos, product demonstrations, and web collateral to drive awareness and demand for NI products and technologies.
Support pre-sales as a subject matter expert, helping customers understand the value and capabilities of NI solutions.
Monitor and report on product performance and health, identifying trends, challenges, and opportunities across demand and supply.
Represent NI at industry events, trade shows, and conferences as a product expert and brand ambassador.