Staff Product Manager, Adhesives
About The Position
Lyten is hiring a Staff Product Manager to drive the commercial strategy for its adhesives portfolio across multiple industries. The role serves as the primary link between the market and formulation and engineering teams by tracking market intelligence, synthesizing customer requirements, and guiding portfolio expansion. The Product Manager establishes and advances the product roadmap, supports product launches and commercialization, and provides leadership with updates on market trends and portfolio performance. The position requires periodic travel for customer visits and trade shows and requires the ability to lift 50 pounds.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, chemistry, materials science, or a related field; a technical background is preferred but not required.
- At least 7 years of experience in product management, product marketing, or a related commercial role, ideally involving industrial, materials, or B2B technical products.
- Demonstrated experience gathering and synthesizing customer and market feedback into product requirements.
- Direct experience building and prioritizing a product roadmap.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, including experience working directly with technical or R&D teams.
- Ability to travel periodically for customer visits and trade shows.
- Ability to lift 50 pounds.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or advanced business degree, with at least 7 years of product management or product strategy experience, including ownership of portfolio-level roadmap or P&L decisions.
- Experience in structural adhesives, thermal interface materials, or specialty/performance materials markets.
- Familiarity with the semiconductor industry or electronics thermal management applications.
- Experience with voice-of-customer processes and competitive or market intelligence frameworks.
- Background supporting pricing strategy or new product business cases.
- Experience working alongside formulation scientists or process engineers on technical products.
Responsibilities
- Establish the adhesives portfolio roadmap, prioritizing new formulations and product line extensions based on market opportunity and customer demand.
- Gather and synthesize market intelligence, including competitive landscape, pricing trends, and emerging applications, to inform portfolio strategy.
- Translate customer feedback and specifications into formulation and product requirements for the R&D and scientist teams.
- Identify and evaluate future market directions and adjacent applications, advising leadership and R&D on investment priorities.
- Partner with sales and marketing to develop positioning, messaging, and collateral for new and existing products.
- Define and track product success metrics, including revenue, margin, win rate, and customer adoption, and report on portfolio performance.
- Lead cross-functional product launches, coordinating with R&D, process engineering, sales, and operations from concept through commercialization.
- Build and maintain relationships with key customers and channel partners to understand evolving requirements.
- Support pricing strategy and business case development for new product investments.
- Provide leadership with regular updates on market trends, competitive activity, and roadmap progress.
Benefits
- Tier-based bonus and equity.
- Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits.
- Corporate discounts.
- Paid holidays, PTO, and sick time.
- 401(k).
- Employee relocation plan, if applicable.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
