Product Manager - Compressed Air

Aerzen USA Corporation is seeking a Product Manager to lead the USA compressed air portfolio from its Charlotte, NC on-site location. This role focuses on defining market requirements and driving near-term execution with the supply chain, while serving as the primary liaison between USA stakeholders and global partners to ensure alignment with the overall product strategy.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the USA product requirements and gap analyses for the portfolio, including compliance, performance, documentation, and testing.
• Lead the critical-path work to understand and drive required changes for the USA market, such as ASME, UL listing, and efficiency/testing requirements as applicable.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders (sales, service, engineering, sourcing, and parent-company product teams) to refine the portfolio and ensure readiness for quoting and near-term delivery.
• Drive product strategy and readiness, including product positioning inputs, competitive insights, selling tools, and training for internal and external sales and service teams.
• Capture and process voice-of-customer and voice-of-channel inputs to refine requirements and the roadmap.
• Coordinate product change activities (requests, prioritization, scope) and ensure cross-functional alignment to execute changes.
• Ensure product requirements flow into engineering deliverables (drawings, BOMs, spec sheets, manuals) and support downstream operational readiness.
• Partner with supply chain and sourcing to identify and qualify suppliers, support vendor setup and ongoing vendor management, and inform tariff and cost considerations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Business; Engineering preferred.
• 5+ years in industrial equipment product management, product marketing, or sales engineering within industrial equipment, with compressed air experience strongly preferred.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and the ability to translate market needs into engineering and supply chain actions.
• Ability to operate in a startup or greenfield environment with high ambiguity.
• Must be able to travel 30-40% of the time as required.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous health benefits, including about 96% company-paid plans with company HSA contribution
• 401(k) with company match
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Profit share bonus package
• Opportunity to work with a dynamic group of professionals