Hybrid Product Manager, Physical Products Lifecycle

at Fittes

• Job title: Product Manager, Physical Products Lifecycle
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: CA$90,000 - CA$105,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Product Manager at Fittes focusing on the lifecycle management of physical products. Collaborating across teams to enhance product performance and execute strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own the full post-concept product lifecycle, including launch execution, performance monitoring, and end-of-life decisions.
• Act as the internal product advocate, ensuring alignment and visibility across brand, marketing, sales, and operations.
• Monitor product and inventory performance, identifying opportunities to accelerate movement, reposition, or exit underperforming SKUs.
• Apply a strong commercial lens to prioritize where to invest, relaunch, or discontinue products.
• Manage strategic relationships with third-party vendors and manufacturers to ensure quality, reliability, and delivery standards.
• Drive vendor accountability through clear expectations, performance metrics, and ongoing partnership management.
• Lead and project-manage cross-functional product initiatives such as relaunches, repositioning, and end-of-life transitions.
• Translate insights and decisions into clear actions, aligning teams toward shared outcomes.
• Bring structure to ambiguity by creating, improving, and scaling repeatable product and operational processes.
• Serve as a key point of coordination across teams when priorities shift or challenges arise.
• Play a key role on the Product Launch Taskforce, ensuring products are launched on time and with clear accountability.
• Lead launch-related working sessions, keeping teams aligned on milestones and deliverables.
• Proactively surface risks and escalate issues early to maintain launch momentum and transparency with leadership.
• Leverage product performance, inventory signals, and market inputs to generate clear, actionable insights.
• Use data to test assumptions, inform trade-offs, and influence product and lifecycle decisions.
• Connect detailed analysis to broader business strategy, supporting leadership decision-making.
• Incorporate market and competitive trends into ongoing product optimization and planning.
• Act as a culture carrier by modeling Fittes’ values in how you work and collaborate.
• Communicate proactively and transparently, especially when plans or timelines are at risk.
• Demonstrate resilience and a growth mindset—learning quickly and moving forward with clarity.
• Contribute positively to team initiatives, feedback cycles, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of experience in product management, product operations, procurement, or sales strategy and you’re excited by roles that blend strategy with execution
• Have worked with physical products (think steel, plastic, manufacturing environments) and understand the realities of quality, sourcing, and production. This role is not a fit for candidates with tech/SaaS-only product experience
• Have been hands-on in product launches and lifecycle decisions, including making (and executing) the call to reposition, rationalize, or retire SKUs when it’s time
• Love turning messy data into a clear direction. You're deeply comfortable in Excel or Google Sheets, can run your own analyses (like aged inventory), and use insights to drive action
• Enjoy being the connector across teams, collaborating with product, marketing, sales, and operations to move work forward
• Are equally comfortable being a doer and a strategic thinker, you don’t wait for perfect conditions to start
• Know how to influence without authority, aligning indirect stakeholders like brand partners, ops teams, and external vendors
• Thrive in environments with ambiguity and momentum, and genuinely enjoy building new processes, taking ownership, and figuring things out as you go

Benefits

• Pay-for-performance profit-sharing bonus structure
• Flexible and inclusive benefits including HSA
• Employee Stock Option Plan
• Hybrid work structure - we are committed to 3 days in office
• Open concept, bright, dog-friendly office vibe (our furry friends can’t wait to meet you!)
• Strict “No email/slack on phones” policy and “No email/slack outside of office hours” policy — we value our personal time and are committed to protecting this for our team members.
• Fully stocked kitchen with snacks and fresh fruit