Product Manager Software

Position Responsibilities and Expectations: This hands-on product management role turns customer needs, technical requirements, product capabilities, market opportunities, and business objectives into successful software features and experiences from concept through release and post-launch support. Define and deliver software products, tools, features, and experiences that drive and enhance Fanatec hardware products as part of the Product Management team. Help define and maintain the software product roadmap, including application capabilities, drivers, firmware, settings, profiles, game compatibility, and additional software-enabled functionality. Gather and synthesize customer, community, market and game ecosystem research. Translate insights into clear product requirements and recommendations. Create and maintain product firmware and software focused requirement documents, feature definitions, user experience expectations and release criteria. Prioritize feature backlogs, release scope, tradeoffs, and launch readiness with engineering, project management, and stakeholders. Work closely with software engineering, firmware, hardware engineering, UX/UI design, QA, project management, customer care, marketing and go-to-market teams to deliver complete user experiences. Evaluation, testing, beta feedback and release validation for software builds, firmware, device setup, configuration settings, car profiles, and game compatibility. Create business cases, financial inputs, forecasts, and market opportunity assessments for new software capabilities, extra features, and product improvements. Help sales, marketing, customer care, and go-to-market teams understand software positioning, features, benefits, target users, competitive differentiation, and launch priorities. Create executive overviews and proactively communicate project status, decisions, risks, issues, blockers, and recommended actions to stakeholders. Create and maintain supporting product documentation, including release notes, FAQs, manuals, knowledge base input, setup guidance, recommended settings, and product profiles. Investigate software and product issues, create issue reports, prioritize bugs, and support root cause analysis and resolution planning across the lifecycle. Monitor post-launch customer feedback, usage insights, reviews, community feedback, issue trends, sales input, and competitive changes. Work closely with game developers and licensors on features, bugs, issue solving and implementation. Essential Skills and Experience: Required: 3+ years of Product Management experience in software development, or similar equivalent experience, such as gaming software, gaming peripherals, simulation products, or related technology fields. Experience working with software development teams and understanding of software product development from concept through launch, release management, and lifecycle support. Strong passion for and practical familiarity with sim racing and simulation Experience creating product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, feature definitions, release criteria, and prioritized backlogs. Strong understanding of customer-facing software experiences and the ability to balance user experience, technical feasibility, quality, security, schedule, and business priorities. Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences and senior stakeholders. Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including software engineering, firmware, hardware engineering, UX/UI design, QA, project management, marketing, sales, customer care, operations, and executive stakeholders. Analytical approach to decision-making, including comfort with customer feedback, usage data, issue trends, competitive analysis, business cases, and data-driven recommendations. Strong customer focus and experience helping deliver software products, features, or experiences that address real consumer needs. Strong organization, ownership, and attention to detail across documentation, product requirements, roadmap inputs, launch materials, release notes, issue reports, and stakeholder communication. Self-directed and proactive approach to issue solving, escalation, follow-up, and stakeholder reporting. Open-minded, collaborative, and highly motivated attitude with a willingness to solve problems hands-on. Proficiency with general office productivity suites for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, communication, and collaboration. Beneficial: Experience with Jira, Confluence, git, agile development workflows, product requirement systems, issue tracking tools, analytics tools, or similar software product development workflows. Experience with device configuration software, drivers, firmware update workflows, calibration, setup profiles, game integrations, APIs, telemetry, analytics, cloud-connected features, or embedded and connected hardware products. Experience with AI integrations, Agents and solutions. Experience with sim racing software ecosystems, gaming peripherals, force feedback systems, wheels, pedals, accessories, driver software, firmware, configuration tools, or setup profiles. Education in software engineering, computer science, engineering, product management, business, technology, or a similar field.