Product Manager, Simulation Peripherals

Position Responsibilities and Expectations: • This hands-on product management role helps 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. • 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. Essential Skills and Experience: Required: • 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. Beneficial : • Experience with Jira, Confluence, product requirement systems, product requirement documents, or similar product development documentation workflows.• Education in engineering, product management, business, technology, or a similar field. • Experience with sim racing hardware ecosystems, gaming peripherals, force feedback systems, wheels, pedals, accessories, drivers, firmware, configuration software, or setup profiles. • Experience working with China-based suppliers, ODM/OEM partners, manufacturing development, sample management, or production readiness workflows. • Real-world racing, karting, motorsport, track, or racing setup experience is a plus but is not required.