Software Product Manager

Software Product Manager

Shift: Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Are you ready to work making the world a safer, healthier place? Join our mission to continuously move science forward; to innovate and advance all aspects of our business to improve the health and safety of our communities and lives. Compensation: $100,000 per year

Summary

The Software Product Manager establishes and leads product management for a portfolio of software products across the Pace organization. The Software Product Manager owns product vision, priorities, and roadmaps across multiple software products, ensuring alignment between business strategy, customer needs, market dynamics, and technical execution. This role has clear decisionmaking authority for product priorities, informed by close collaboration with business stakeholders, customers, and the IT softwaredevelopment organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Ownership & Strategy
• Stakeholder & Customer Collaboration
• Product Delivery & Execution
• Metrics, Outcomes & Continuous Improvement
• Product Management Practice Development

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in business, technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience). 7+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, business analysis, or software delivery roles or equivalent industry experience in analytical environmental testing. Demonstrated success managing priorities and roadmaps for multiple software products or related industry experience. Proven ability to make and defend product decisions in complex, multistakeholder environments. Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and iterative delivery methods (e.g., Agile). Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholdermanagement skills. Comfort working in environments with evolving structure, processes, and expectations.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience introducing or maturing product management practices within an organization. Experience in the analytical environmental testing industry. Background in B2B software, enterprise systems, or regulated industries. Experience working directly with enterprise customers as part of product discovery and validation or B2B services. Strong analytical skills and experience using metrics to drive product decisions. Product management or Agile certifications (e.g., CSPO, SAFe POPM) are a plus.

Career Growth & Impact

This role is designed as a senior individual contributor position with significant autonomy and organizational impact. As the company's product management capabilities mature, this role may evolve into a product management leadership position, helping to define strategy, standards, and future team structure.

Why This Role Matters

This position will directly influence how our organization defines, builds, and evolves software products. The Software Product Manager will play a critical role in improving alignment, accelerating value delivery, and ensuring our software investments deliver meaningful business and customer outcomes.

Find Your Place at Pace

We need you - your curiosity, your talents, and your drive - to help us advance this important work.

Benefits

When you join Pace, you commit to work that makes a positive impact on our communities and our world. We commit to supporting you with benefits and perks that make a positive impact on your life. Full-time roles are eligible for our comprehensive benefits program which includes competitive salaries, medical, dental vision, 401K retirement savings plan (100% vested immediately in the employer match), life, disability and voluntary benefits, paid time off for holiday, sick and vacation days, HSA, wellness program, flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement, Employee Assistance program, parental leave, optional legal coverage and ID theft.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Pace provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, creed, color, religion, genetics, protected veteran status, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Pace Analytical is an equal opportunity employer.