Staff Product Manager, Adhesives — Growth Strategy

Lyten; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

Lyten is hiring a Staff Product Manager, Adhesives to steer the commercial strategy for its adhesives portfolio across industries. You will translate market needs into product requirements for R&D and engineering, and guide the portfolio toward high-impact growth.

The role collaborates with sales, marketing, and operations to define positioning, pricing, and launches, while tracking performance metrics like revenue, margin, and adoption across global markets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, chemistry, materials science, or related field; technical background preferred, not required.
• Demonstrated experience gathering and synthesizing customer and market feedback into product requirements.
• Direct experience building and prioritizing a product roadmap.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with technical/R&D teams.
• Ability to travel periodically for customer visits and trade shows.

Responsibilities

• Establish the product roadmap for the adhesives portfolio, prioritizing new formulations and product line extensions based on market opportunity and customer demand.
• Gather and synthesize market intelligence (competitive landscape, pricing trends, emerging applications) to inform portfolio strategy.
• Translate field feedback and customer specs into formulation and product requirements for R&D/scientist team.
• Identify future market directions and adjacent applications for portfolio expansion and advise leadership and R&D on investments.
• Partner with sales and marketing to develop positioning, messaging, and collateral for new and existing products.
• Define and track product success metrics (revenue, margin, win rate, customer adoption) and report on portfolio performance.
• Lead cross-functional product launches from concept to commercialization with R&D, process engineering, sales, and operations.
• Build and maintain relationships with key customers and channel partners to stay close to evolving requirements.
• Support pricing strategy and business case development for new product investments.
• Provide regular updates to leadership on market trends, competitive moves, and portfolio roadmap progress.

Skills

Product management

Roadmap prioritization

Cross-functional collaboration

Customer requirements gathering

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, chemistry, materials science, or related field

MBA or advanced degree

Job description

Lyten is hiring a Staff Product Manager, Adhesives to steer the commercial strategy for its adhesives portfolio across industries. You will translate market needs into product requirements for R&D and engineering, and guide the portfolio toward high-impact growth.

The role collaborates with sales, marketing, and operations to define positioning, pricing, and launches, while tracking performance metrics like revenue, margin, and adoption across global markets.