Product Manager

Emerson•Austin, TX

About The Position

The Senior Product Manager helps drive strategy and execution for Emerson’s Mixed Signal hardware portfolio. The role works across R&D, Marketing, Sales, product management colleagues, and leadership to understand customer problems, shape differentiated product strategies, translate customer needs into product features and benefits, and support products that resonate in the market and build long-term competitive advantage. NI platform experience is required. The role includes mentorship from other product managers and providing technical, analytical, and operational support to them while developing product strategy skills. The position also represents product management in sales training and customer engagements, contributes to product requirements with R&D, creates marketing and educational content, supports pre-sales as a subject matter expert, monitors product performance and health, and represents NI at industry events. The role requires building trust, influencing without authority, negotiating effectively, focusing on customer outcomes, and operating comfortably amid ambiguity and high-stakes situations.

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 alone, or preferably a combination of software and hardware.
Legal authorization to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not provided.
Ability to build trust across stakeholders, influence without authority, negotiate effectively without eroding trust, stay focused on customer outcomes, and remain comfortable with ambiguity in high-stakes situations.
Ability to introduce new ways of looking at problems, partner with others, and remain confident under pressure.

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; this is strongly preferred.
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 drive alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders without formal authority.
Adaptability, self-motivation, quick learning, comfort with ambiguity, and initiative.

Responsibilities

Develop product positioning and messaging, including market segmentation, application deep dives, and articulation of the value proposition.
Partner with Marketing and Sales by representing 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 represent business and customer perspectives in product requirements and help ensure products solve customer problems.
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.
Support other product managers with technical, analytical, and operational work while developing product strategy skills.