Product Manager Software

Corsair Gaming, Inc.; Landshut; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Corsair Gaming, Inc. seeks an experienced product manager to turn customer needs and technical requirements into software features for Fanatec hardware. You will define the software product roadmap, drive game compatibility, and coordinate across engineering, UX, QA, and GTM teams.

Expect to gather market insights, write requirements, and validate releases with stakeholders. Strong emphasis on sim racing and customer-focused software experiences.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Product Management for software or gaming-related tech.
• Experience with software product development from concept to launch.
• Strong passion for sim racing and simulation technologies.
• Ability to create PRs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Balance UX, feasibility, quality, security, schedule and business priorities.
• Excellent communication to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate across software, firmware, hardware, UX, QA, and marketing teams.
• Data-driven decisions using customer feedback and usage data.
• Proactive, organized, and detail-oriented with strong documentation.
• Open, collaborative mindset and hands-on problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver software products and experiences for Fanatec hardware as part of PM team.
• Maintain software roadmap including drivers, firmware, settings, profiles, and game compatibility.
• Gather insights from customers, market, and game ecosystem; translate to requirements.
• Create and maintain firmware/software requirement docs, release criteria, UX expectations.
• Prioritize backlogs, scope, and launch readiness with engineering and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with engineering, UX/UI, QA, PM, marketing, and GTM teams for complete user experiences.
• Test and validate software builds, firmware, device setup, and game compatibility.
• Develop business cases and forecasts for new software capabilities and product improvements.
• Support go-to-market by communicating software positioning and launch priorities.
• Create executive status updates and maintain release notes and documentation.
• Investigate issues, report bugs, perform root-cause analysis and resolution planning.
• Monitor post-launch feedback, usage trends, and competitive changes.
• Work with game developers and licensors on features and bug fixes.

Skills

Product management

Software development

Cross-functional collaboration

Sim racing interest

User stories

Release management

Stakeholder communication

Documentation

Analytical decision-making

Feature prioritization

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git

Job description

Position Responsibilities and Expectations:

This hands-on product management role turns customer needs, technical requirements, product capabilities, market opportunities, and business objectives into successful software features and experiences from concept through release and post-launch support.

• Define and deliver software products, tools, features, and experiences that drive and enhance Fanatec hardware products as part of the Product Management team.

• Help define and maintain the software product roadmap, including application capabilities, drivers, firmware, settings, profiles, game compatibility, and additional software-enabled functionality.

• Gather and synthesize customer, community, market and game ecosystem research. Translate insights into clear product requirements and recommendations.

• Create and maintain product firmware and software focused requirement documents, feature definitions, user experience expectations and release criteria.

• Prioritize feature backlogs, release scope, tradeoffs, and launch readiness with engineering, project management, and stakeholders.

• Work closely with software engineering, firmware, hardware engineering, UX/UI design, QA, project management, customer care, marketing and go-to-market teams to deliver complete user experiences.

• Evaluation, testing, beta feedback and release validation for software builds, firmware, device setup, configuration settings, car profiles, and game compatibility.

• Create business cases, financial inputs, forecasts, and market opportunity assessments for new software capabilities, extra features, and product improvements.

• Help sales, marketing, customer care, and go-to-market teams understand software positioning, features, benefits, target users, competitive differentiation, and launch priorities.

• Create executive overviews and proactively communicate project status, decisions, risks, issues, blockers, and recommended actions to stakeholders.

• Create and maintain supporting product documentation, including release notes, FAQs, manuals, knowledge base input, setup guidance, recommended settings, and product profiles.

• Investigate software and product issues, create issue reports, prioritize bugs, and support root cause analysis and resolution planning across the lifecycle.

• Monitor post-launch customer feedback, usage insights, reviews, community feedback, issue trends, sales input, and competitive changes.

• Work closely with game developers and licensors on features, bugs, issue solving and implementation.

Essential Skills and Experience:

Required:

• 3+ years of Product Management experience in software development, or similar equivalent experience, such as gaming software, gaming peripherals, simulation products, or related technology fields.

• Experience working with software development teams and understanding of software product development from concept through launch, release management, and lifecycle support.

• Strong passion for and practical familiarity with sim racing and simulation

• Experience creating product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, feature definitions, release criteria, and prioritized backlogs.

• Strong understanding of customer-facing software experiences and the ability to balance user experience, technical feasibility, quality, security, schedule, and business priorities.

• 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 software engineering, firmware, hardware engineering, UX/UI design, QA, project management, marketing, sales, customer care, operations, and executive stakeholders.

• Analytical approach to decision-making, including comfort with customer feedback, usage data, issue trends, competitive analysis, business cases, and data-driven recommendations.

• Strong customer focus and experience helping deliver software products, features, or experiences that address real consumer needs.

• Strong organization, ownership, and attention to detail across documentation, product requirements, roadmap inputs, launch materials, release notes, issue reports, and stakeholder communication.

• Self-directed and proactive approach to issue solving, escalation, follow-up, and stakeholder reporting.

• 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, git, agile development workflows, product requirement systems, issue tracking tools, analytics tools, or similar software product development workflows.

• Experience with device configuration software, drivers, firmware update workflows, calibration, setup profiles, game integrations, APIs, telemetry, analytics, cloud-connected features, or embedded and connected hardware products.

• Experience with AI integrations, Agents and solutions.

• Experience with sim racing software ecosystems, gaming peripherals, force feedback systems, wheels, pedals, accessories, driver software, firmware, configuration tools, or setup profiles.

• Education in software engineering, computer science, engineering, product management, business, technology, or a similar field.