AGL Product Manager

AGD Safegate is hiring an onsite, hands-on AGL Product Manager to lead product strategy, roadmap, compliance, and lifecycle performance for airfield hardware serving the Americas market.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy, roadmap, and development priorities for assigned airfield hardware product lines
• Define and communicate product vision, strategy, positioning, and roadmap for the portfolio
• Use customer, market, competitive, regulatory, service, and business insights to identify opportunities and translate them into clear priorities and requirements
• Drive prioritization and scope decisions, approve product trade-offs, and lead product readiness and market launch activities
• Maintain the product business case and roadmap, monitor key risks and dependencies, and align stakeholders through timely decisions
• Communicate product direction, roadmap, performance, and key decisions to commercial, technical, and leadership stakeholders
• Own product lifecycle and portfolio performance, including accurate lifecycle documentation
• Decide and coordinate product changes, certification impacts, obsolescence actions, investment priorities, and product transitions
• Evaluate and prioritize enhancements, quality improvements, cost reductions, supply continuity actions, and lifecycle investments using customer and business value
• Own phase-in and phase-out planning for new, updated, and legacy products, including customer and business impact
• Represent global customer needs with a focus on the Americas
• Act as the accountable product representative for global Sales, Service, and regional teams, with close support for Americas stakeholders
• Build structured customer and market insight by engaging airports, consultants, contractors, distributors, competitors, and internal partners across regions
• Represent the product in strategic customer discussions, site visits, product demonstrations, and industry events
• Provide product positioning, value propositions, roadmap guidance, pricing input, and technical-commercial support for priority customer opportunities
• Set priorities with Quality, Service, Operations, and Engineering to resolve field issues based on safety, customer, commercial, and lifecycle impact
• Ensure corrective actions, product improvements, and lessons learned are incorporated into roadmap and lifecycle plans
• Monitor product KPIs, recurring issues, reliability trends, financial performance, market feedback, and customer outcomes to surface improvement opportunities
• Use field and performance data to make evidence-based roadmap, investment, and phase-out decisions
• Own product-level compliance and certification priorities tied to FAA requirements, ICAO standards, and other applicable regional and international requirements
• Partner with Engineering and certification teams to plan qualification, documentation, approvals, and market access activities
• Assess product changes and roadmap decisions for regulatory, commercial, lifecycle, and customer impact

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Aviation, Business, or a related technical field
• 7+ years of experience in product development, product management, engineering, application engineering, technical support, or a related role
• Experience owning or managing hardware products across strategy, development, launch, growth, sustaining, and phase-out phases
• Strong technical aptitude and ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and operational teams
• Experience leading cross-functional teams through influence, trade-offs, and delivery of measurable outcomes
• Ability to balance customer needs, market evidence, financial considerations, and technical constraints into product decisions and actionable requirements
• Strong written and verbal communication, sound judgement, and a collaborative working style
• Travel internationally up to 30%

Focus Products and Scope

• Airfield Ground Lighting (AGL) hardware
• Airfield signs
• Isolation transformers
• Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPIs)
• Related products for global markets
• Particular attention to FAA requirements and the Americas market

Contract

• Contract type: Permanent

Job Location

• Columbus, OH (onsite), USA

Benefits

• Competitive salary/ benefits
• Opportunity to develop your career
• Great flexible working culture with company values and behaviors
• International environment with opportunities to collaborate with colleagues in different countries around the globe

A Plus (Not a Must)

• Experience in aviation, airport infrastructure, airfield lighting, electrical infrastructure, or industrial equipment
• Familiarity with FAA specifications, airport operations, or regulated hardware products
• Experience owning new product introduction (NPI), business cases, roadmaps, product change, or stage-gate processes
• Exposure to manufacturing, supply chain, quality, certification, or field service environments
• Experience with airfield signs, transformers, PAPIs, lighting fixtures, or related electrical products