[Hiring] Associate Product Manager @Eaton Corporation

Role Description

Eaton’s Industrial Controls Division (ICD) is currently seeking an Associate Product Manager - Soft Starters to join the team. This is a remote role based in the US with approximately 25% travel. Preferred locations include Raleigh, NC; Beachwood, OH; Moon Township, PA or Menomonee Falls, WI. The expected annual salary range for this role is $97,000 - $143,000 a year.

What you’ll do:

• Serve as the business owner for the product family, responsible for defining and executing the product strategy, roadmap, and growth initiatives.
• Partner across functions to identify growth opportunities, prioritize investments, and improve business results.
• Leverage market trends and customer needs to develop and execute differentiated solutions that drive sales growth, profitability, and long-term business value.

Essential Functions:

• Product Strategy:
  • Develop and execute the product family strategic plan and roadmap aligned with division objectives and market opportunities.
  • Drive Voice of Customer (VoC) and market research activities to identify unmet needs, validate market opportunities, and influence product strategy and investment decisions.
  • Monitor competitive activity, market trends, and emerging technologies to identify risks, opportunities, and product differentiation strategies.
• Business Performance:
  • Deliver product family objectives for orders, sales, margin, share, and price realization while maintaining accurate forecasts.
  • Analyze product family performance, including sales, pricing, margin, and costs to identify actions that improve business results.
  • Develop business cases and investment recommendations supporting growth initiatives, product expansion, and new product development.
• Portfolio Management:
  • Develop and execute pricing, positioning, and value proposition strategies to improve competitiveness, profitability, and market share.
  • Lead product lifecycle management, including new product development, product enhancements, launches, rationalization, and obsolescence decisions.
  • Partner across functions (e.g., sales, engineering, finance, operations, etc.) to execute roadmap priorities, remove barriers, and achieve business objectives.
• Commercialization:
  • Lead the development of sales enablement content and training programs that support commercialization and market adoption.
  • Represent the product family with customers, channel partners, field sales, and industry stakeholders to strengthen market position, support commercialization, and drive business growth.

What will make you successful?

• Strategic and analytical product leader who can translate complex insights into actionable business strategies.
• Effectively balance long-term strategic priorities with day-to-day execution using data-driven decision making.
• Strong communication and influencing skills to build alignment across cross-functional teams and organizational levels.
• Highly customer-focused, leveraging strong relationships and market understanding to uncover unmet needs.
• Diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences are valued to bring fresh and innovative ideas to the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or related field from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 5 years of product management, marketing or sales experience in the industrial control or electrical products market.
• Experience using financial, market, customer, and competitive data to develop business recommendations.
• Demonstrated financial acumen, including forecasting, pricing, margin management, and business case development.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Business or technical degree (e.g., MBA, MS in Engineering, etc.).
• Experience in VFD, industrial automation, motor control, motion control, power electronics, or related industrial markets.
• Knowledge of industrial and OEM markets, applications, and key customer segments.
• Demonstrated success driving profitable growth, margin expansion, market share gains, or new product adoption.
• Experience conducting VoC, market segmentation, and opportunity assessment activities.
• Pragmatic Institute certification or formal product management training.
• Demonstrated success presenting recommendations and influencing decisions at executive leadership levels.

Benefits

• Various Health and Welfare benefits.
• Retirement benefits.
• Programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work.