Product Manager - Scheduling

We are seeking a highly motivated scheduling expert to focus on enhancing and owning the scheduling module within Redzones core application and web admin. This role is crucial for our customers who use Redzone to optimize their schedule increase output while greatly improving the employee experience. If you have experience planning and scheduling at a plant have ever thought to yourself there has to be a more efficient way to get this done and are passionate about being the solution to this problem this role is for you.

This role is part of our Product team responsible for delivering tangible value to customers by optimizing how production schedules are created communicated and executed. This individual will work closely with Engineering Design Coaching Marketing Sales and Support teams as well as directly with customers to identify needs validate solutions and bring thoughtful high-impact features to life.

The ideal candidate will bring a strong product mindset and deep empathy for factory scheduler and shop floor users. Ideally this candidate has demonstrated experience delivering enterprise SaaS solutions that address complex manufacturing planning workflows.

This position is full-time exempt remote based in the United States and requires travel up to 25% of the time. No Visa sponsorship available.

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand customer needs related to production planning sequencing and scheduling in a manufacturing environment.
• Must translate firsthand experience of scheduling pain points (e.g. difficulties in rapid schedule updates impact of sub-optimal sequences on changeover time operator communication) into clear product requirements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to define design and ship valuable features in our Redzone application and web admin.
• Support Redzones product strategy cadence with feature enhancements tailored to complex planning workflows like optimized batch sequencing and managing resource constraints.
• Prioritise and define enhancements that improve schedule adherence reduce changeover complexity and empower shop floor decision-making with real-time schedule adjustments.
• Translate needs into user stories product requirements and wireframes.
• Conduct feature validation through testing and real-time user feedback.
• Align internal stakeholders across Coaching Sales Support and Marketing.
• Contribute to iterative design and retrospectives with Engineering and Design teams.

Qualifications :

Required Skills

• Minimum 5 years of direct experience working in a manufacturing plant environment.
• Strong product management fundamentals.
• Exceptional listening and communication skills able to distil complex scheduling and operational requirements.
• Ability to define goals success metrics (e.g. Schedule Attainment OTIF) and value impact for new features.
• Self-starter with a strong bias for action and high attention to detail proactive attitude and strong organizational skills.

Desired Skills 

• Experience using the Redzone product.
• Specific experience in production scheduling capacity planning or finite scheduling.
• 3 years in a Product Management role.
• Familiarity with Jira Figma and wireframing tools such as Balsamiq.
• Experience designing and delivering app and web-based SaaS solutions.

Additional Information :

Compensation Package:

• Base pay range:  $00 USD   Annual (12 Months) base salary Corporate Bonus Plan
• Placement within our pay range will vary based on knowledge skills experience and market location variations as well as internal peer equity.
• This position may be eligible for additional performance incentives
• U.S. benefits package includes medical dental and vision coverage a 401(k) plan with company match short-term and long-term disability coverage life insurance paid-time off parental leave flexible spending accounts and employee assistance program

About QAD and QAD Redzone:

QAD Inc. is a leading provider of adaptive cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer order to survive and thrive manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises.  

QAD Redzone helps to enable QADs vision for the Adaptive Enterprise. Labor productivity improvements directly impact efficiency. Productive and empowered employees increase the effective capacity of your plant and accelerate time to productivity for new employees giving manufacturers the agility to increase production beyond what was previously possible without having to invest in production equipment or new plants and reduce the amount and impact of employee attrition. Empowered employees with a growth mindset take extreme ownership of challenges that impact their production goals creating resilience in the face of disruption.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race color sex age national origin religion sexual orientation gender identity status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal state or local protected class. 

About QAD and QAD Redzone:

QAD Inc. is a leading provider of adaptive cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer order to survive and thrive manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises.  

QAD Redzone helps to enable QADs vision for the Adaptive Enterprise. Labor productivity improvements directly impact efficiency. Productive and empowered employees increase the effective capacity of your plant and accelerate time to productivity for new employees giving manufacturers the agility to increase production beyond what was previously possible without having to invest in production equipment or new plants and reduce the amount and impact of employee attrition. Empowered employees with a growth mindset take extreme ownership of challenges that impact their production goals creating resilience in the face of disruption.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race color sex age national origin religion sexual orientation gender identity status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal state or local protected class. 

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time