Product Manager, Simulation

Position Responsibilities and Expectations

This hands‑on product management role helps turn customer needs, technical requirements, market opportunities, and business objectives into successful simulation products from concept through launch and post‑launch support.

• Define and deliver new simulation and sim racing hardware products as part of the Product Management team.
• Help define and maintain the simulation product roadmap, including product concepts, feature priorities, lifecycle planning, and category opportunities.
• Gather and synthesize customer, community, market, and competitive research. Translate insights into clear product requirements and recommendations.
• Create and maintain product requirement documents, feature definitions, user experience expectations and launch criteria.
• Work closely with engineering, industrial design, project management, software, firmware, operations and quality teams to deliver complete user experiences.
• Create business cases, financial models, forecasts, and market opportunity assessments to support product decisions and prioritization.
• Help sales, marketing, customer care and go‑to‑market teams understand product positioning, features, benefits, target users, competitive differentiation and launch priorities.
• Create executive overviews and communicate project status, decisions needed, risks, issues, blockers and recommended actions.
• Create and maintain supporting product documentation, including SKU sheets, FAQs, manuals, setup guidance and product profiles.
• Evaluate, test, report, and handle issues for prototypes and pre‑production samples, including hands‑on investigation and supplier follow‑up.
• Create recommended setups, software settings, tuning guidance, and usage profiles; investigate product issues, create issue reports, and support root‑cause analysis and resolution planning across the lifecycle.
• Monitor post‑launch customer feedback, quality trends, support issues, reviews, sales input, and competitive changes.

Essential Skills and Experience

Required

• 3+ years of Product Management experience in the same, similar, or adjacent field, such as sim racing products, gaming peripherals, gaming hardware, consumer electronics, enthusiast technology, or similar hardware categories.
• Experience working with hardware products and understanding of product development from concept through launch and lifecycle management.
• Strong passion for and practical familiarity with sim racing and simulation.
• 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 engineering, design, software, firmware, project management, marketing, sales, operations, quality, and executive stakeholders.
• Analytical approach to decision‑making, including comfort with business cases, forecasts, financial inputs, competitive analysis, customer feedback, and data‑driven recommendations.
• Strong customer focus and experience helping deliver products, features, or experiences that address real consumer needs.
• Strong organization, ownership, and attention to detail across documentation, product requirements, SKU information, launch materials, issue reports, and stakeholder communication.
• 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, product requirement systems, product requirement documents, or similar product development documentation workflows.
• Education in engineering, product management, business, technology, or a similar field.
• Experience with sim racing hardware ecosystems, gaming peripherals, force feedback systems, wheels, pedals, accessories, drivers, firmware, configuration software, or setup profiles.
• Real‑world racing, karting, motorsport, track, or racing setup experience is a plus but is not required.