Senior Product Manager

Gemini, Inc. • Irving, TX

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

Gemini is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own an assigned product category as a business, with accountability for category strategy, portfolio performance, profitable growth, pricing, and customer value. The role develops deep customer, market, application, technical, operational, and financial understanding; translates insights into a focused category strategy and roadmap; leads cross-functional execution across the full product lifecycle; and drives measurable commercial and operational results. It also provides functional leadership and direct mentoring to product management talent. The position is based in Las Colinas, Texas, and is hybrid, with a minimum of four days onsite per week. The schedule is five eight-hour days, Monday through Friday, with travel up to 25%. The role is eligible for additional benefits.

The Senior Product Manager owns and executes multi-year product category strategies, establishes Voice of Customer practices, defines market and competitive positioning, and manages lifecycle and portfolio decisions. The role leads growth initiatives through discovery, development, commercialization, launch, adoption, and post-launch learning, coordinating with functions including Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Experience. It defines KPIs, makes tradeoffs, removes barriers, and drives initiatives toward customer and business outcomes.

The position owns category performance and pricing strategy, develops business cases, prioritizes work for enterprise value, and leads regular category reviews and corrective actions. It supports business development opportunities such as strategic partnerships and acquisitions. The role also aligns senior and cross-functional stakeholders on product vision and decisions, partners on go-to-market readiness and post-launch performance, and coaches and mentors product management professionals. Formal people-management responsibility is not required unless direct reports are assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, engineering, product management, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of successful experience in product management, category management, new product development, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated ownership of product or category strategy, roadmaps, business cases, and cross-functional execution.
• Experience using customer discovery, market insight, financial analysis, and performance metrics to make product decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and work effectively across all levels and functions of an organization.
• Strong strategic judgment and a clear point of view as a product leader.
• Technical and application aptitude, including the ability to become a credible category expert in product performance, manufacturing processes, customer use cases, specifications, quality requirements, and relevant standards.
• Executive-level facilitation, written communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
• Advanced knowledge of physical-product lifecycle management, roadmapping, stage-gate development, commercialization, launch planning, portfolio optimization, and end-of-life management.
• Ability to balance customer value, technical feasibility, operational requirements, speed, risk, and financial return.
• Proficiency in financial analysis, value-based pricing, price architecture, price realization, business-case development, forecasting, and KPI management.
• Ability to anticipate issues, frame options, make decisions, and lead through complexity and ambiguity.
• Commitment to coaching, mentoring, and building high-performing product management capability.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Own and execute multi-year product category strategies aligned with business direction, customer needs, target markets, and financial goals.
• Translate customer, market, application, competitive, and business insights into opportunities, roadmaps, and product priorities.
• Establish a regular Voice of Customer discipline through customer visits, field observation, win-loss analysis, sales and channel input, and engagement with end users.
• Define and maintain views of target markets, customer segments, applications, buying criteria, competitive alternatives, market opportunity, value propositions, differentiation, and Gemini’s right to win.
• Identify interdependencies, risks, downstream implications, and mitigation plans using systems thinking.
• Own full product lifecycle and portfolio decisions, from discovery and development through launch, maintenance, rationalization, and end-of-life.
• Lead cross-functional teams through discovery, validation, requirements, development, commercialization, launch, adoption, revenue ramp, and post-launch learning.
• Facilitate effective use of the stage-gate product development process, with clear requirements, decision points, owners, and measures of success.
• Partner with Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Experience to ensure product and launch requirements are understood and achieved.
• Convert strategy into executable plans, define KPIs, track outcomes, and adjust priorities based on evidence and business impact.
• Make timely tradeoffs across scope, timing, resources, customer value, and financial return, and communicate decision rationale.
• Remove barriers, drive accountability, and ensure initiatives deliver intended orders, revenue, profitability, price, cost, service, quality, adoption, and customer outcomes.
• Champion innovation and constructive change, especially for complex, ambiguous, or high-stakes initiatives.
• Own category performance, including orders, revenue, profitability, market position, pipeline, portfolio health, growth levers, pricing, and return on investment.
• Own category pricing strategy, including value-based pricing, price architecture, competitive positioning, discount guidance, price realization, and recommendations to address margin leakage or changing market conditions.
• Build and maintain business cases connecting customer value, market opportunity, resource requirements, risk, and financial impact.
• Prioritize active work to maximize enterprise value and achievement of business objectives.
• Lead regular category business reviews, contribute to planning and forecasting, identify gaps, and drive corrective action.
• Support business development opportunities, including strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and other category expansion paths.
• Build trust-based relationships across relevant functions and align senior leaders and stakeholders around product vision, priorities, tradeoffs, and decisions.
• 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 clearly and concisely with executives and diverse stakeholders to build confidence, gain commitment, and enable action.
• Provide functional leadership and direct mentoring to product management professionals, strengthen standards, and improve product management practices.
• Set clear expectations and provide timely coaching and development feedback.
• Model self-awareness, learning, accountability, and collaborative leadership.
• Perform other duties, responsibilities, and activities as assigned; they may change at any time.

Benefits

• $0 health insurance premium for employee-only coverage and 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: Senior