Product Category Manager - Soft Seating

We’re Hiring:
Product Category Manager – Soft Seating Focus

Are you a strategic product leader with a passion for soft seating categories and building winning product portfolios? We’re looking for an experienced Product Category Manager to set the long-term vision for a portfolio of product lines and lead a team of Product Managers to bring that vision to life. This role blends strategy, people leadership, and portfolio ownership, with a strong emphasis on managing and growing a soft seating product category in a dynamic, customer-focused environment.

Own Portfolio & Category Strategy

• Set and champion the strategic direction for a portfolio of product lines, with a primary focus on soft seating categories
• Define category strategies, value propositions, and competitive positioning that align with company growth goals.
• Analyze market trends, customer insights, and competitive dynamics to uncover growth opportunities and manage risk.
• Prioritize investments and make portfolio-level trade-offs to maximize impact.

• Provide leadership and oversight for multi-year new product development roadmaps.
• Ensure roadmaps are strategically aligned, financially sound, and executable.
• Review and approve product concepts, business cases, and major investments.
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure development capacity, timelines, and successful launches.

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Product Managers.
• Establish best practices, tools, and consistent product management processes.
• Build a strong product culture centered on customer value, accountability, and results.

• Serve as the senior product leader and escalation point for product decisions.
• Align closely with marketing, sales, operations, engineering, and finance.
• Communicate portfolio strategy, progress, and risks to executive leadership.
• Represent product in strategic planning and long-range forecasting.

• Own portfolio-level performance, including revenue growth, margin, and ROI.
• Guide lifecycle decisions from launch through expansion and end-of-life.
• Ensure post-launch learnings inform future roadmaps and strategy.

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• 8+ years of product management experience, including direct ownership of a soft seating product category.
• Proven success setting category strategy and managing multi-year product roadmaps.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing Product Managers.
• Strong financial acumen with experience making portfolio-level investment decisions.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and influencing skills.

• Hybrid role
• Must be onsite at our Madison and/or DeForest facilities at least once per week, often more dependent on product project status and need for collaboration

If you’re energized by shaping product strategy, growing a soft seating portfolio, and leading teams to deliver meaningful customer value, we’d love to hear from you.