Product Manager

Gemini, Inc. • Irving, TX

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

Gemini is seeking a Product Manager in Las Colinas, Texas, to own an assigned product area end to end. The role identifies opportunities, develops business cases, sets roadmap priorities, and leads execution. It requires building strong customer, market, application, technical, operational, and financial understanding; translating insights into clear requirements and executable plans; and working cross-functionally to deliver measurable revenue, cost, growth, and customer outcomes. The Product Manager works independently within a defined scope, manages constraints and tradeoffs with clear rationale, and escalates category-level, enterprise-level, or highly ambiguous decisions. The position offers an opportunity for someone interested in future Business Unit leadership. It is hybrid, with at least four onsite days per week, follows five eight-hour days Monday through Friday, and requires up to 25% travel.

The Product Manager develops product-area plans and roadmap priorities, conducts Voice of Customer research, builds an evidence-based understanding of the market and competitive landscape, manages product lifecycle activities, and leads cross-functional initiatives from discovery through launch and post-launch learning. The role coordinates with functions including Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Experience. It tracks product performance and financial metrics, supports pricing and business-case decisions, owns commercialization readiness in partnership with Sales and Marketing, and communicates priorities and results to stakeholders. The position includes informal mentoring and peer development but has no required formal people-management responsibility.

Gemini describes itself as a signage manufacturing industry leader that has provided employee stability since 1963. The company emphasizes customer commitment, teamwork, respect, diversity, stability, stewardship, and a vision of successful partners, engaged people, and thriving communities. The position is eligible for other benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, engineering, product management, or a related field.
• At least 4 years of successful experience in product management, category management, new product development, marketing, applications engineering, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience developing product strategies, roadmaps, requirements, and business cases and leading cross-functional execution.
• Experience using customer discovery, market insight, financial analysis, and performance metrics to make product decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and work effectively across organizational functions and levels.
• Customer focus, curiosity, commercial judgment, and ability to independently identify and frame opportunities within an assigned area.
• Technical and application aptitude, including ability to build expertise in products, manufacturing processes, customer use cases, specifications, quality requirements, and relevant standards.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, including ability to build cross-functional buy-in.
• Working knowledge of physical-product lifecycle management, requirements, roadmapping, stage-gate development, commercialization, launch planning, and lifecycle recommendations.
• Ability to assess customer value, technical feasibility, operational requirements, timing, risk, and financial return and recommend practical tradeoffs.
• Ability to build business cases, analyze revenue, cost, margin, pricing, and ROI, and define and track meaningful success metrics.
• Ability to identify issues independently, frame options, make recommendations, and lead defined work through moderate complexity and ambiguity.
• Commitment to self-awareness, continuous learning, cross-functional collaboration, knowledge sharing, and informal mentorship.

Nice To Haves

• MBA preferred.
• Experience preferably in B2B manufacturing, engineered products, or physical products.

Responsibilities

• Develop product-area plans and roadmap priorities within established category strategy, customer needs, target markets, and financial goals.
• Translate customer, market, application, competitive, and business insights into opportunities, business cases, requirements, and roadmap recommendations.
• Conduct Voice of Customer activities, including customer visits, field observation, win-loss analysis, sales and channel input, and engagement with end users.
• Build a fact-based understanding of customers, applications, buying criteria, competitors, market opportunity, value propositions, and differentiation; contribute insights to category strategy.
• Identify product-area risks and dependencies, manage constraints, and escalate cross-category or enterprise implications when needed.
• Manage product lifecycle activities, including discovery, requirements, development, launch, adoption, maintenance, improvement, simplification, rationalization, and end-of-life recommendations.
• Lead cross-functional execution of defined opportunities from discovery and validation through requirements, development, commercialization, launch, adoption, and post-launch learning.
• Facilitate the stage-gate product development process, clarifying requirements, decision points, owners, and measures of success.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, and other functions to define requirements, resolve issues, and achieve launch readiness.
• Turn approved priorities into executable plans, define success metrics, track results, and recommend evidence-based adjustments.
• Make prioritization tradeoffs within the assigned scope, explain deferrals or decisions, manage constraints, and escalate decisions beyond the role’s authority.
• Own initiative execution and follow-through, remove barriers, and drive outcomes for revenue, cost, growth, adoption, service, quality, and customer goals.
• Test ideas, challenge assumptions, and implement constructive change within the assigned product area.
• Track and interpret orders, revenue, cost, margin, pipeline, pricing, adoption, and growth; identify performance gaps and recommend actions.
• Support pricing decisions with value, cost, competitive, and performance analysis; recommend price positioning, realization, and margin improvements within scope.
• Build and maintain business cases linking customer value, market opportunity, resource requirements, risk, and financial impact.
• Prioritize work using customer value, strategic fit, resources, financial return, and business objectives; communicate tradeoffs clearly.
• Prepare product-area performance reviews, contribute to planning and forecasting, monitor success metrics, and recommend corrective action when outcomes fall short.
• Provide market analysis, customer insight, and business-case support for partnerships and product-area expansion.
• Build cross-functional relationships and alignment around product priorities, requirements, tradeoffs, and decisions; provide concise recommendations and decision support to leaders.
• Own commercialization readiness and post-launch performance with Sales and Marketing, including positioning, pricing, channel strategy, sales tools, training, customer communication, launch timing, adoption measures, pipeline development, revenue ramp, and corrective action.
• Communicate product priorities, recommendations, decisions, progress, and results to stakeholders, building buy-in through credibility, evidence, and relationships.
• Informally mentor less-experienced colleagues, share knowledge, contribute to stronger product-management practices, provide constructive peer feedback, and model learning, accountability, and collaboration.

Benefits

• $0 health insurance premium for employee-only coverage, with low-cost premiums for other coverage levels.
• 4% retirement match with profit sharing.
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, holiday, parental, volunteer, and sick time.
• Dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• Weekly pay.
• Use of a company-owned resort in Hayward, Wisconsin.
• Tuition reimbursement program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level