Country: USA
State: Michigan
City: Grand Rapids
Office Location: 901 44th Street SE - - - Grand Rapids -Michigan -
Date posted: 20-Jan-2026
Business Function: Marketing
Position Type: Full-Time/Regular
Are you energized by influencing product decisions that shape the future of an entire portfolio? Do you enjoy connecting business strategy with design, engineering, and customer insights to bring meaningful products to life? Are you someone who thrives when you can collaborate, think analytically, and guide teams toward strong product outcomes?
Helping You Thrive By:
- Offering competitive wages and benefits, that support your life both in and out of work
- Creating continuous learning opportunities to help you grow and upskill.
- Fostering a culture of inclusion where employees feel seen, heard and valued - and living it out every day.
- Empowering you to make a meaningful impact on people and the planet through your work and Steelcase's ongoing commitment.
You'll Support Meaningful Work By:
- Leading crossfunctional project teams across design, engineering, supply chain, portfolio, and CVM groups to guide product decisions and ensure alignment.
- Driving business decisions within product development by evaluating product health, margin impact, pricing considerations, and financial viability.
- Synthesizing market research, customer feedback, competitive analysis, and portfolio insights to inform project direction and define product requirements.
- Guiding product feature and design choices by balancing customer needs, design vision, and business constraints throughout the development process.
- Managing multiple simultaneous development projects (typically 4-6), ensuring ontime delivery and successful execution against studio goals.
- Collaborating closely with manufacturing partners and occasionally visiting plants or suppliers to support feasibility, costing, and operational decisions.
- Creating clear, datadriven reports, recommendations, and presentations that communicate insights, decisions, and progress to internal stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience in product development or in a related role involving product ownership, project health management, or cross-functional decision-making.
- Proven analytical and data management experience, including evaluating financial impacts, reviewing margin and cost drivers, and assessing project health.
- Understanding of P&L and pricing strategies and the ability to make informed business decisions based on financial considerations.
- Experience collaborating across crossfunctional teams such as engineering, design, supply chain, portfolio, and/or customer research.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to articulate product direction, synthesize insights, and present recommendations to diverse audiences.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Exposure to design, engineering, or supply chain environments, with the ability to connect operational considerations to business outcomes.
- Experience working within manufacturing or productdriven industries, especially roles requiring collaboration with technical teams.
- Ability to resolve business problems using data, identify trends, evaluate product performance, and use insights to inform decisions.
- Strong storytelling and presentation skills, with practice conveying complex financial or product information in compelling ways.
- Ability to manage and structure questions, synthesize feedback loops, and incorporate customer insights into product direction.
- Experience leading or supporting complex crossfunctional initiatives requiring alignment across diverse partners.
Doing better for people and planet
Steelcase is a global design and thought leader in the world of work. Along with our expansive community of brands, we design and manufacture innovative furnishings and solutions to help people do their best work in the many places where work happens.
Why People Choose to Work with Us
At Steelcase, we put people at the center of everything we do. We understand the role of work and believe that it can bring meaning and purpose to the lives of our customers and our employees. We prioritize supporting our employees both in and out of work, in all aspects of their lives. When we bring our talents together, we make a positive lasting impact through our work and communities.
Steelcase provides employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, creed, genetic information, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or veteran status and bases all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. If we can make the application process easier through accommodation, please email us at myhr@steelcase.com.
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Steelcase
Jan 20, 2026