Principal Product Manager - Manufacturing(AI Enabled) Staines-upon-Thames, England, United Kingdom Research and Development

Principal Product Manager - Manufacturing(AI Enabled)

• Full-time

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of aglobal, diverse environment; you will be joining awinning team with acommitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you canmake a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Role Purpose

Manufacturing is entering an era that is AI-enabled, data-driven, autonomous, and increasingly intelligent. This role sits at the center of that transformation. As Principal Product Manager for Manufacturing Solutions, you will define and drive products that optimize operations, improve efficiency, and deliver measurable business impact for industrial customers.

You will own the end-to-end product lifecycle, from discovery to adoption to scale, acting as the strategic bridge between customer needs, engineering execution, and commercial outcomes. Leading with a start-up mindset, you will set vision and direction, validate with customers and industry stakeholders, prioritize ruthlessly, and deliver scalable solutions aligned with IFS’s AI-first strategy.

Core Responsibilities

• Define and execute a clear product vision and roadmap aligned with company strategy and measurable customer outcomes.
• Identify high-impact opportunities through market, customer, competitive, and industry analysis.
• Build strong investment cases focused on value creation, adoption, scalability, and differentiation.
• Drive growth across core and AI revenue streams.
• Align strategy across related products or components within the portfolio.

Customer Insight & Discovery

• Lead end-to-end discovery with Research and Design.
• Engage directly with customers to understand workflows, operational challenges, and desired outcomes.
• Co-create and validate solutions with customers
• Establish continuous feedback loops from discovery through to adoption.
• Use qualitative and quantitative insights to refine direction and ensure ROI.
• Ruthlessly prioritize based on measurable value.
• Leverage AI/ML and automation to enhance operational decision-making and optimize manufacturing workflows.
• Lead functional prototyping and early validation to ensure feasibility and market fit.
• Champion an AI-first mindset across Product, Design, and Engineering, ensuring AI is applied intentionally where it creates meaningful customer and commercial value.
• Identify high-impact opportunities to embed AI into workflows, decision support, automation and user experiences, not as a feature add-on, but as a core capability

End-to-End Ownership & Execution

• Own the lifecycle from concept through launch and scale
• Bridge functional, technical, and commercial requirements to ensure smooth transition from prototype to adopted product.
• Clarify priorities, remove blockers, and drive measurable progress toward customer outcomes.
• Maintain transparency and alignment across Engineering, Design, Product Marketing, Support, Sales, Go-to-Market and Customer Success.
• Balance competing priorities while contributing to commercial performance and product P&L considerations

Commercial Impact & Go-to-Market

• Define and communicate clear product differentiation and value proposition.
• Contribute to pricing and packaging strategy to maximize growth and market impact.
• Work with Product Marketing and GTM teams to ensure successful launches and strong market positioning
• Personally support customer and partner presentations to drive credibility and adoption.
• Own adoption as a core metric, ensuring delivered capabilities are intuitive, usable, and deliver real operational impact.

Experience & Education

• Proven experience (6+ years) in Product Management within SaaS, platform, or enterprise software environments.
• Experienced and knowledgeable in the domain of Manufacturing, ideally hands-on experience in the industry
• Demonstrated ability to define and execute product strategy, vision, and measurable outcomes.
• Hands-on experience in customer discovery, prototyping, and validating solutions.
• Proven track record of launching and scaling products from concept to adoption, delivering measurable customer value.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and prioritization skills.
• Data-informed decision-making mindset, using analytics, experimentation, and evidence to guide direction.
• AI-curious
• Experience in developer platforms, application frameworks, data services, or AI/ML-enabled enterprise applications.
• Prior exposure to commercial responsibilities such as pricing, monetization, or P&L ownership.
• Experience working in global, distributed organizations and partnering across geographies.

As a step in our recruitment process, all final candidates will undergo a background check, to get us an understanding of our future employees.

We respectfully decline all offers of recruitment and/or advertising assistance.

IFS Fact
IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for customers around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, build and maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. The industry expertise of our people and solutions, together with a commitment to delivering value to every one of our customers, has made IFS a recognized leader and the most recommended supplier in our sector. Our team of 7,000+ employees and growing ecosystem of partners support more than 10,000 customers around the world challenge the status quo and realize their competitive advantage. Learn more about how our enterprise software solutions can help your business today at ifs.com .

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.

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