Group Product Manager, Industry Solutions
Job Description
This hybrid Group Product Manager role focuses on acting as Inriver’s platform expert for B2B Manufacturing customers, while using customer and partner input to shape product roadmap priorities.
Role Overview
You will represent the Inriver platform in customer-facing and partner conversations, lead product demos for both business and technical stakeholders, and translate structured feedback into clear product management input. The role also combines solution architecture and hands-on prototyping using platform extensibility to address customer needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Represent the Inriver platform in customer-facing settings, including RFP processes, existing customer check-ins, events, and partner conversations
- Deliver product demos that credibly address both business and technical stakeholders
- Collect structured feedback from customers and partners, then translate it into actionable input for Product Management
- Build deep expertise in B2B Manufacturing, including workflows, data challenges, and buying criteria
- Influence roadmap priorities across product teams using evidence gathered from real customer and partner needs
- Identify opportunities to meet customer requirements through configuration and templates rather than new development, and prototype solutions yourself
- Partner closely with Sales, Partner teams, Marketing, and Customer Success to ensure a sharp and consistent product story
- Serve as the platform expert in RFPs, customer check-ins, and events by answering advanced questions and representing product capabilities
- Bring signal from Inriver’s Ideal Customer Profile and B2B Manufacturing expertise directly into product decisions
- Work hands-on with platform extensibility and prototyping tools to create solutions yourself, not solely specify them to others
- Operate at the intersection of Sales, Partners, and Product to maintain real influence over what gets built
Requirements
- 5–10 years of experience in a hybrid role spanning Sales Engineering, Product Management, or Solution Development, or strong exposure to more than one of these disciplines
- Ability to present and demo complex software to customers, including technical buyers and business stakeholders
- A builder’s mindset, with preference for configuring a working prototype over writing requirements documents about it
- Experience within B2B Manufacturing
- Familiarity with platform extensibility concepts such as APIs, low-code configurators, MCPs, or similar, or willingness to get hands-on with them
- Strong communication skills across contexts such as RFP responses, customer workshops, and roadmap reviews
- Collaborative mindset with structure, curiosity, and follow-through
- Occasional travel for customer sites, team meet-ups, and events
Technology Focus
- APIs
- low-code configurators
- MCPs
Compensation and Location
- Location: Chicago, IL (hybrid)
- Salary: USD 160,000 – 185,000 per year
- Minimum experience: 5 years
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401K
- STD
- LTD
Why You’ll Love This Role
- Function as the platform expert in customer and partner conversations, including demos, RFPs, and event representation
- Become a resident expert in B2B Manufacturing and bring that signal into product decisions
- Build hands-on solutions using extensibility features and prototyping tools
- Work at the intersection of Sales, Partners, and Product with real influence over what gets built
- Join a company with strong product ambitions and a friendly, down-to-earth culture
Why Inriver
- Visibility to customers, partners, and the product roadmap
- Opportunity to shape how B2B Manufacturing customers experience Inriver through hands-on work
- Supportive team culture focused on learning, leading, and growing
- A workplace where your voice matters and your work makes a difference, with a focus on building great products while enjoying the process
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