Product Manager-Hearing Industry

Johnson Health Tech Companies•Minnetonka, MN

5h•Onsite

About The Position

Johnson Health Tech is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing fitness equipment manufacturers, delivering innovative solutions through commercial and residential brands to customers in more than 60 countries. Under the direction of the VP of R&D, the Product Manager will help build the company’s prescription hearing aid portfolio from the ground up. This is a hands-on individual contributor role, working face-to-face with R&D, Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, Operations, Marketing, and Sales to define, test, refine, and bring new hearing devices to market. The role involves daily product execution, including product decisions, concept and prototype testing, gathering feedback, prioritizing requirements, and helping determine what works and what should change. Success calls for prescription hearing aid experience, sound product judgment, resourcefulness, and a willingness to solve problems directly with the team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, audiology, marketing, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
At least 5 years in product management, product development, audiology, clinical, engineering, sales, service, or another product-facing role within the prescription hearing aid industry.
Direct experience helping develop, launch, fit, support, or commercialize prescription hearing aids.
Demonstrated experience working directly with technical teams from early concept through testing and launch.
Ability to work on-site in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and collaborate face-to-face with R&D and cross-functional teams during daily product development.
Deep understanding of prescription hearing aids, fitting workflows, hearing care professionals, patients, and industry pain points.
Ability to challenge legacy approaches constructively and develop practical alternatives.
Working knowledge of regulated medical-device development, quality, and launch-readiness requirements.
Flexibility to collaborate across global time zones.
Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 20% for customer research, product testing, launches, trade shows, clinical visits, and collaboration with global teams.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in business, engineering, audiology, or a related field.

Responsibilities

Own day-to-day product definition, decisions, roadmap, and priorities for assigned prescription hearing devices and accessories.
Work side-by-side with R&D during development, prototype reviews, testing, troubleshooting, and product decisions.
Make timely trade-offs involving audiological performance, customer value, usability, technical feasibility, cost, timing, quality, and risk.
Maintain product briefs, requirements, use cases, priorities, and decision documentation to keep development moving.
Use firsthand knowledge of prescription hearing care to inform product decisions.
Engage audiologists, hearing care professionals, patients, and channel partners to identify unmet needs and test ideas.
Understand challenges created by established industry products and workflows and identify opportunities to solve them differently.
Monitor current and emerging competitors without assuming legacy practices are the right answer.
Participate directly in prototype evaluation, field testing, market trials, and rapid learning cycles.
Identify issues early and help the team test, learn, and determine practical solutions.
Coordinate launch readiness for devices, accessories, packaging, labeling, documentation, training, and supporting materials.
Monitor product quality, adoption, customer feedback, revenue, margin, and other KPIs, and drive post-launch improvements.
Complete required training and ongoing education, and perform other duties and startup initiatives as assigned.