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New Product Development jobs are open across consumer goods, medical devices, technology, and manufacturing, from entry-level associate to director and VP, with specializations in product ideation, stage-gate process management, and cross-functional launch coordination. Find a role that fits from the openings below and apply directly.
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OVERVIEW
OnTrac is seeking a hands-on Product Manager to join a modern product team building cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform. This is a builder's role, not an oversight role. You will own the backlog, write the stories, sit with engineers and designers every day, and decide what gets built next based on evidence from real users.
You start from the user and the outcome, not the process. You are as comfortable in a Jira ticket, a Figma file, or a query against product data as you are in front of a client sponsor. When a story is unclear, you rewrite it. When an engineer is blocked on a decision, you make it. When a release ships, you check whether it worked.
The ideal candidate is curious, decisive, technically fluent, and accountable. You structure ambiguous problems, form and test hypotheses, and lead with the answer. You take full ownership of what the team ships, escalate early with a recommendation attached, and never wait to be asked.
This is not a program management or portfolio oversight role. We are looking for someone who is in the weeds of one product with one team, day in and day out.
ENGAGEMENT
- Expected start date: as soon as possible
- Location: Chicago, IL or United States remote
- You must be located in, and authorized to work in, the United States for the full duration of the engagement
PRIMARY DUTIES
These duties are representative rather than exhaustive.
Backlog Ownership: Own the product backlog end to end. Write user stories and acceptance criteria yourself, slice work into small shippable increments, and keep at least two sprints of ready work in front of the team at all times.- Product Discovery: Run discovery with UX and engineering: user interviews, usability tests, prototypes, and lightweight experiments. Make sure what the team builds is grounded in user research and evidence, not opinion.
- Daily Team Partnership: Work alongside engineers and designers every day. Join stand-ups, answer questions in the moment, review work in progress, and accept or reject stories against acceptance criteria.
- Prioritization and Trade-offs: Prioritize by user value and business outcome. Make scope, sequencing, and trade-off calls quickly, explain the reasoning, and adjust when the evidence changes.
- Outcome Measurement: Define success measures with the client sponsor at the start of the engagement. Instrument features, track adoption, task success, conversion, or satisfaction after each release, and feed what you learn back into the backlog.
- Technical Fluency: Understand the architecture well enough to discuss APIs, data, and integration trade-offs with engineers and architects. Pull and analyze product data yourself rather than waiting for a report.
- Release Management: Plan and sequence frequent releases through CI/CD with the engineering team. Write release notes and coordinate rollout with client stakeholders.
- Roadmap and Vision: Translate the client's goals into a clear product vision and a near-term roadmap that the team understands and can act on.
- Agile Delivery: Take part fully in Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, and SAFe events such as PI Planning, bringing a refined, sized, and dependency-mapped backlog. Work with the Scrum Master on flow and predictability.
- Client Engagement: Be the product voice to client sponsors. Run demos, hold regular one-to-one touch points, anticipate their questions, and shape decisions with clear, evidence-based recommendations.
PATHWAY TO SUCCESS
Be prepared, work with intentional effort, and offer no surprises for our clients and teammates. Anticipate the next question, the next risk, and the next decision before others do.
Measures are set with the client and PMO for each engagement and typically include:
- Outcomes shipped: Features released that move the agreed user and business metrics.
- Backlog health: Ready, well-written work always in front of the team, with few stories returned for clarification.
- Release cadence: Small, frequent releases rather than large, infrequent ones.
- Client confidence: Strong sponsor feedback and satisfaction scores at project close.
By day 30 you will deliver a product baseline (users, goals, current metrics, and backlog health), and by day 90 an agreed roadmap with measurable outcome targets.
EXPECTATIONS
- Customer Facing: You will be a primary voice to the client on the product, with touch points ranging from daily to bi-weekly, including demos, PI Planning, steering committees, and discovery workshops.
- Consulting Environment: You will work in a billable, project-based model, balancing client outcomes with schedule and utilization targets.
- Ownership Mindset: You treat the product as your own. When something is unclear, broken, or at risk, you take the first step to fix it and keep the right people informed.
- Onboarding and Training: The first several weeks include materials, compliance training, and meetings with the people you will work with.
REQUIRED CREDENTIALS
- Bachelor's degree in a related field. An advanced degree is a plus.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- A product mindset: user- and outcome-first, with a real example of what your team shipped, who used it, and how you knew it worked (for example adoption, task success, conversion, or satisfaction).
- At least five years of hands-on Product Manager or Product Owner experience on software or application development teams, personally owning the backlog and writing stories and acceptance criteria.
- Current or recent (last ~5 years) experience at a product-led technology company, or in the digital or product practice of a top-tier consulting firm.
- Experience running product discovery with UX and design: user interviews, usability testing, and prototypes.
- Experience on teams that release frequently with CI/CD, tracking outcome and flow metrics rather than velocity alone.
- Technical fluency: comfortable discussing APIs, data models, and architecture with engineers, and able to analyze product data yourself (for example SQL or analytics tools).
- Strong capability with Jira and Confluence. Experience with Figma or similar design tools.
- Experience working in Scrum and in SAFe or another scaled Agile framework, including PI Planning.
- Polished, concise, executive-ready communication that leads with the answer.
- At least three years in a client-facing role, in consulting or professional services or directly with business stakeholders.
USEFUL QUALIFICATIONS
- CSPO, SAFe POPM, or a similar product certification.
- Experience with GCP or other public cloud application development.
- Hands-on prototyping, analytics, or experimentation tooling (for example A/B testing).
- A background in engineering, design, or data before moving into product.
- Experience in the government or public sector.
- Experience with distributed teams.
OVERVIEW
OnTrac is seeking a hands-on Product Manager to join a modern product team building cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform. This is a builder's role, not an oversight role. You will own the backlog, write the stories, sit with engineers and designers every day, and decide what gets built next based on evidence from real users.
You start from the user and the outcome, not the process. You are as comfortable in a Jira ticket, a Figma file, or a query against product data as you are in front of a client sponsor. When a story is unclear, you rewrite it. When an engineer is blocked on a decision, you make it. When a release ships, you check whether it worked.
The ideal candidate is curious, decisive, technically fluent, and accountable. You structure ambiguous problems, form and test hypotheses, and lead with the answer. You take full ownership of what the team ships, escalate early with a recommendation attached, and never wait to be asked.
This is not a program management or portfolio oversight role. We are looking for someone who is in the weeds of one product with one team, day in and day out.
ENGAGEMENT
- Expected start date: as soon as possible
- Location: Chicago, IL or United States remote
- You must be located in, and authorized to work in, the United States for the full duration of the engagement
PRIMARY DUTIES
These duties are representative rather than exhaustive.
Backlog Ownership: Own the product backlog end to end. Write user stories and acceptance criteria yourself, slice work into small shippable increments, and keep at least two sprints of ready work in front of the team at all times.- Product Discovery: Run discovery with UX and engineering: user interviews, usability tests, prototypes, and lightweight experiments. Make sure what the team builds is grounded in user research and evidence, not opinion.
- Daily Team Partnership: Work alongside engineers and designers every day. Join stand-ups, answer questions in the moment, review work in progress, and accept or reject stories against acceptance criteria.
- Prioritization and Trade-offs: Prioritize by user value and business outcome. Make scope, sequencing, and trade-off calls quickly, explain the reasoning, and adjust when the evidence changes.
- Outcome Measurement: Define success measures with the client sponsor at the start of the engagement. Instrument features, track adoption, task success, conversion, or satisfaction after each release, and feed what you learn back into the backlog.
- Technical Fluency: Understand the architecture well enough to discuss APIs, data, and integration trade-offs with engineers and architects. Pull and analyze product data yourself rather than waiting for a report.
- Release Management: Plan and sequence frequent releases through CI/CD with the engineering team. Write release notes and coordinate rollout with client stakeholders.
- Roadmap and Vision: Translate the client's goals into a clear product vision and a near-term roadmap that the team understands and can act on.
- Agile Delivery: Take part fully in Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, and SAFe events such as PI Planning, bringing a refined, sized, and dependency-mapped backlog. Work with the Scrum Master on flow and predictability.
- Client Engagement: Be the product voice to client sponsors. Run demos, hold regular one-to-one touch points, anticipate their questions, and shape decisions with clear, evidence-based recommendations.
PATHWAY TO SUCCESS
Be prepared, work with intentional effort, and offer no surprises for our clients and teammates. Anticipate the next question, the next risk, and the next decision before others do.
Measures are set with the client and PMO for each engagement and typically include:
- Outcomes shipped: Features released that move the agreed user and business metrics.
- Backlog health: Ready, well-written work always in front of the team, with few stories returned for clarification.
- Release cadence: Small, frequent releases rather than large, infrequent ones.
- Client confidence: Strong sponsor feedback and satisfaction scores at project close.
By day 30 you will deliver a product baseline (users, goals, current metrics, and backlog health), and by day 90 an agreed roadmap with measurable outcome targets.
EXPECTATIONS
- Customer Facing: You will be a primary voice to the client on the product, with touch points ranging from daily to bi-weekly, including demos, PI Planning, steering committees, and discovery workshops.
- Consulting Environment: You will work in a billable, project-based model, balancing client outcomes with schedule and utilization targets.
- Ownership Mindset: You treat the product as your own. When something is unclear, broken, or at risk, you take the first step to fix it and keep the right people informed.
- Onboarding and Training: The first several weeks include materials, compliance training, and meetings with the people you will work with.
REQUIRED CREDENTIALS
- Bachelor's degree in a related field. An advanced degree is a plus.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- A product mindset: user- and outcome-first, with a real example of what your team shipped, who used it, and how you knew it worked (for example adoption, task success, conversion, or satisfaction).
- At least five years of hands-on Product Manager or Product Owner experience on software or application development teams, personally owning the backlog and writing stories and acceptance criteria.
- Current or recent (last ~5 years) experience at a product-led technology company, or in the digital or product practice of a top-tier consulting firm.
- Experience running product discovery with UX and design: user interviews, usability testing, and prototypes.
- Experience on teams that release frequently with CI/CD, tracking outcome and flow metrics rather than velocity alone.
- Technical fluency: comfortable discussing APIs, data models, and architecture with engineers, and able to analyze product data yourself (for example SQL or analytics tools).
- Strong capability with Jira and Confluence. Experience with Figma or similar design tools.
- Experience working in Scrum and in SAFe or another scaled Agile framework, including PI Planning.
- Polished, concise, executive-ready communication that leads with the answer.
- At least three years in a client-facing role, in consulting or professional services or directly with business stakeholders.
USEFUL QUALIFICATIONS
- CSPO, SAFe POPM, or a similar product certification.
- Experience with GCP or other public cloud application development.
- Hands-on prototyping, analytics, or experimentation tooling (for example A/B testing).
- A background in engineering, design, or data before moving into product.
- Experience in the government or public sector.
- Experience with distributed teams.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Manufacturing
- Electronics & Hardware
- Food & Beverage
- Staffing & Recruiting
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in new product development jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, industrial design, business, or a related field
- Experience managing products through a structured stage-gate or product development process
- Proficiency with project management tools such as Jira, Smartsheet, or Microsoft Project
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams across engineering, marketing, and operations
- Familiarity with CAD tools, product lifecycle management software, or design for manufacturability principles
- Strong analytical skills including voice-of-customer research, competitive analysis, and business case development
Tips for Your New Product Development Job Search
Quantify your launch outcomes on your resume
List the products you brought from concept to market and attach real results, such as time-to-launch improvements or cost reductions achieved during development. Hiring managers in new product development want to see your fingerprints on completed launches, not just process participation.
Tailor your resume to the stage-gate depth listed
Some job postings emphasize ideation and consumer insight, others focus on design transfer and regulatory handoff. Read each posting for which phases they stress and mirror that language in your resume so your experience maps directly to their open role.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists new product development openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Build a portfolio around the development process
A portfolio for new product development roles should show your decision-making at key gates, not just finished products. Include a brief case study that walks through how you identified a gap, scoped the concept, and moved it through cross-functional review to a launch decision.
Prepare a cross-functional conflict story for interviews
New product development interviews consistently probe how you manage disagreements between engineering, marketing, and regulatory stakeholders. Have a specific example ready that shows how you resolved a technical or timeline conflict without derailing the project or the relationship.
Negotiate around the full development cycle, not just salary
When evaluating an offer, ask which stage of the product pipeline you'd own from day one, how launch success is defined, and what the review cycle looks like for your role. Those answers reveal how much real ownership you'll get and how your performance will be assessed.
New Product Development Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most new product developments?
The companies hiring the most new product developments right now include Molex, Carrier, and Gradian Thermal Solutions, with the largest share of openings in Minnesota, Texas, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is concentrated in consumer goods, medical device, and technology manufacturers actively expanding their product pipelines.
How many new product development jobs are remote?
About 61% of new product development openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with the highest remote share in roles focused on market research, product strategy, and program management. Positions that require hands-on prototyping, lab access, or manufacturing floor coordination are most likely to require on-site presence.
How do you become a new product development professional?
Most new product development roles start with a degree in engineering, industrial design, business, or a scientific discipline relevant to the target industry. From there, you build experience in adjacent roles such as product management, R&D, or project engineering, develop fluency with stage-gate frameworks and cross-functional collaboration, and progressively take ownership of full product launches to build a portfolio of completed projects.
Can you get a new product development job with little experience?
Entry-level new product development roles do exist, particularly at larger consumer goods and medical device companies that run structured associate programs. Your strongest asset at that stage is a portfolio of academic or internship projects that shows you worked through a real development process, made tradeoffs, and brought something to a defined completion point rather than just assisting on tasks.
What does the new product development interview process look like?
New product development interviews typically include a recruiter screen focused on your process experience, followed by a hiring manager conversation that digs into a specific launch you owned. Later rounds often involve a panel with cross-functional stakeholders from engineering, marketing, or operations, and may include a case study or presentation where you walk through how you would approach taking a product concept through to launch readiness.
Where can I find and apply to new product development jobs?
You can find and apply to new product development jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Find the roles that match your experience and specialization, then apply directly to each listing without leaving the platform.
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