Regional Product Manager

Acuity Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Dental coverage

Vision plans

401K benefits

Commissions/incentive compensation

Job summary

QSC is seeking a Regional Product Manager to translate market insights into the strategy for Q-SYS solutions across a broad market. You will listen to customers, perform VoC analysis, and shape product planning with regional context and data-driven rationale.

You will train sales and cross-functional teams, develop competitive intelligence, and act as the regional product authority to drive lifecycle decisions and go-to-market execution for diverse partners.

Qualifications

• Strong technical and product fluency in related fields.
• Strong business acumen with ability to forecast from market feedback.
• Systems-thinking to link data points to strategic tradeoffs.
• Excellent synthesis and communication to turn feedback into narratives.
• Analytical judgement with comfort in ambiguity and tradeoffs.
• Experience with VoC, win/loss analysis, market discovery or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional market discovery including VoC, win/loss and validation.
• Translate field intelligence into actionable insights for product leadership.
• Collaborate with global product marketing and management for new planning and lifecycle decisions.
• Develop competitive intelligence like battle cards and objections handling tools.
• Drive regional NPI readiness by training and coordinating pre-sales demo products.
• Serve as regional product authority for sales, marketing, tech and leadership teams.

Skills

Product management

Sales engineering

Applications engineering

Business acumen

Systems thinking

Synthesis & communication

Analytical judgement

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

6-8 years of relevant work experience

Job description

Company Overview

QSC is creating exceptional, people-centric experiences with the perfect balance of technology and creativity. Q-SYS, our innovative full stack audio, video and control platform, unifies data, devices and a cloud-first architecture, empowering organizations to deliver transformative AV experiences across built spaces. Building on the QSC legacy, QSC Audio delivers audio technology that empowers live entertainers and sound reinforcement professionals with the confidence to create and deliver memorable experiences for their audiences. Atrius, Distech Controls and QSC are part of the Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS) business segment. Our mission is to make spaces smarter, safer and greener through our strategy of connecting the edge with the cloud using disruptive technologies that leverage data interoperability. Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people's lives. We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals. Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at #QSYS.

Work location

• This position may be based anywhere in the United States and includes travel as part of the responsibilities.

Job Summary

This role is built for a connector, someone who listens deeply to the market, translates complexity into clarity and helps to shape product strategy through grounded, regional insights. As a Regional Product Manager, you'll operate at the intersection of customer needs and company vision. Your work will directly inform how we'll position, package and deliver Q-SYS solutions to our diverse and dynamic market partners.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Lead regional market discovery, including Voice of Customer (VoC), win/loss analysis and market validation to uncover customer needs, adoption barriers and whitespace opportunities.


• Translate field intelligence into actionable insight, synthesizing customer feedback, competitive signals and market trends into clear recommendations for product and business leaders.


• Partner closesly with global product marketing and product management to inform new product planning, feature tradeoff discussions and lifecycle and forecasting decisions using customer insights, competitive intelligence and market data.


• Develop and maintain competitive intelligence across the QSC portfolio, including battle cards, differentiation narratives and objection-handling tools that enable sales and technical teams to successfully sell.


• Drive regional NPI readiness by training sales, technical and support teams, coordinating pre-sales demo products and working across stakeholder groups to design demo experiences for external audiences.


• Act as the go-to regional product authority for QSC, supportig sales, regional marketing, technical and leadership teams with deep product, use-case and market context.

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

• Strong technical and product fluency, with previous experience in product management, sales engineering, application engineering or similar roles


• Strong business accumen, ability to think about the business case as deeply as the technology and translate market feedback into forecasts and business planning


• A systems-thinking mindset, connect individual data points to broader market patterns, business implications and strategic tradeoffs


• Excellent synthesis and communication skills, able to turn fragmented feedback into clear, compelling and action-oriented narratives


• Analytical judgement, including comfort with ambiguity, tradeoff analysis and contextualizing customer input within broader products and business strategy


• Experience with customer insight programs including Voice of the Customer (VoC), win/loss analysis, market discovery or similar efforts


• Credibility with both technicl and business audiences, ability to incluence without atuhtority across functions and levels


• High School Diploma or equivalent


• 6 to 8 years of relevant work experience

Travel Requirements

• 1-20%


• 21-40%

Company Information

QSC is owned by Acuity Inc., which is located in the United States. These companies share a global recruitment system on which the data you provide will be stored, and which will be subject to the laws of the United States of America.

Compensation

The range for this position is $85,700.00 to $185,400.00 USD. Placement within this range may vary, depending on the applicant's experience and geographic location.

Benefits

Acuity offers generous benefits including health care, dental coverage, vision plans, 401K benefits, and commissions/incentive compensation depending on role.

Equal Opportunity Employment

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Accommodation in the Application Process

Acuity Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. It complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other applicable laws requiring reasonable accommodation of persons with disabilities in employment.

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Unsolicited Resumes Policy

Any unsolicited resumes sent to Acuity Inc. from a third party, such as an Agency recruiter, including unsolicited resumes sent to an Acuity Inc. mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Acuity Inc. employees, or to Acuity Inc. resume database will be considered Acuity Inc. property. Acuity Inc. will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Acuity Inc. will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. This includes any Agency that is an approved/engaged vendor, but does not have the appropriate approvals to be engaged on a search.