Product Manager, Simulation Peripherals

We are seeking a Product Manager, Simulation Peripherals to join our team. As a hands-on product management role, you will help turn customer needs, technical requirements, supplier and manufacturing inputs, market opportunities, and business objectives into successful simulation peripheral products from concept through launch and post-launch support.

Responsibilities:

• Define and deliver new simulation and sim racing peripheral hardware products as part of the Product Management team.
• Help define and maintain the simulation peripherals product roadmap, including product concepts, feature priorities, lifecycle planning, and category opportunities.
• Gather and synthesize customer, community, market, competitive, supplier, and manufacturing insights. Translate insights into clear product requirements and recommendations.
• Create and maintain product requirement documents, feature definitions, user experience expectations, and launch criteria.
• Work closely with engineering, industrial design, project management, software, firmware, operations, quality, suppliers, and manufacturing partners to deliver complete user experiences.
• Communicate clearly and efficiently with suppliers on requirements, sample feedback, development priorities, issues, timelines, tradeoffs, and action plans.
• Evaluate, test, report, and handle issues for prototypes and pre-production samples, including hands-on investigation and supplier follow-up.
• Create business cases, financial models, forecasts, and market opportunity assessments to support product decisions and prioritization.
• Help sales, marketing, customer care, and go-to-market teams understand product positioning, features, benefits, target users, competitive differentiation, and launch priorities.
• Create executive overviews and proactively communicate project status, decisions needed, risks, issues, blockers, recommended actions, and next steps to stakeholders.
• Create and maintain supporting product documentation, including SKU sheets, FAQs, manuals, setup guidance, and product profiles.
• Create recommended setups, software settings, tuning guidance, and usage profiles; investigate product issues, create issue reports, and support root cause analysis and resolution planning across the lifecycle.
• Monitor post-launch customer feedback, quality trends, supplier feedback, support issues, reviews, sales input, and competitive changes.
• Travel to the Fanatec main office in Landshut, Germany as required to align with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.

Requirements:

• 7-10+ years in total, and at least 3+ years of Product Management experience in the same, similar, or adjacent field, such as sim racing products, gaming peripherals, gaming hardware, consumer electronics, enthusiast technology, or similar hardware categories.
• Experience working with hardware products and understanding of product development from concept through launch and lifecycle management.
• Fluent spoken and written English and Chinese, with the ability to communicate clearly across local suppliers and international stakeholders.
• Ability to work closely with suppliers and manufacturing partners, clearly communicating requirements, feedback, priorities, issues, and follow-up actions.
• Strong passion for and practical familiarity with sim racing, simulation, gaming peripherals, or enthusiast hardware.
• 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 engineering, design, software, firmware, project management, marketing, sales, operations, quality, suppliers, and executive stakeholders.
• Analytical approach to decision-making, including comfort with business cases, forecasts, financial inputs, competitive analysis, customer feedback, and data-driven recommendations.
• Strong customer focus and experience helping deliver products, features, or experiences that address real consumer needs.
• Strong organization, ownership, and attention to detail across documentation, product requirements, SKU information, launch materials, issue reports, supplier follow-up, and stakeholder communication.
• Self-directed, proactive, and hands-on approach to issue solving, with a strong habit of reporting status, risks, and blockers to stakeholders early and clearly.
• Proficiency with general office productivity suites for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, communication, and collaboration.
• Able and willing to travel to the Fanatec main office in Landshut, Germany as required.