Product Manager, Simulation Peripherals

Position Responsibilities and Expectations:• This hands-on product management role helps turn customer needs, technicalrequirements, supplier and manufacturing inputs, market opportunities, and businessobjectives into successful simulation peripheral products from concept through launch andpost-launch support.• Define and deliver new simulation and sim racing peripheral hardware products as part of theProduct Management team.• Help define and maintain the simulation peripherals product roadmap, including productconcepts, feature priorities, lifecycle planning, and category opportunities.• Gather and synthesize customer, community, market, competitive, supplier, and manufacturinginsights. Translate insights into clear product requirements and recommendations.• Create and maintain product requirement documents, feature definitions, user experienceexpectations, 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, includinghands-on investigation and supplier follow-up.• Create business cases, financial models, forecasts, and market opportunity assessments tosupport 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; investigateproduct issues, create issue reports, and support root cause analysis and resolution planningacross 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 fromconcept through launch and lifecycle management.• Fluent spoken and written English and Chinese, with the ability to communicate clearly acrosslocal suppliers and international stakeholders.• Ability to work closely with suppliers and manufacturing partners, clearly communicatingrequirements, feedback, priorities, issues, and follow-up actions.• Strong passion for and practical familiarity with sim racing, simulation, gaming peripherals, orenthusiast hardware.• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical conceptsclearly 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 executivestakeholders.• 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 thataddress real consumer needs.• Strong organization, ownership, and attention to detail across documentation, productrequirements, SKU information, launch materials, issue reports, supplier follow-up, andstakeholder communication.• Self-directed, proactive, and hands-on approach to issue solving, with a strong habit of reportingstatus, 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 requirementdocuments, 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, manufacturingdevelopment, sample management, or production readiness workflows.• Real-world racing, karting, motorsport, track, or racing setup experience is a plus but is notrequired.