Country: USA
State: Michigan
City: Grand Rapids
Office Location: 901 44th Street SE - - - Grand Rapids -Michigan -
Date posted: 02-Feb-2026
Business Function: Marketing
Position Type: Full-Time/Regular
You're someone who thrives in complex, crossfunctional environments where you can independently shape direction while collaborating closely with engineers, designers, marketers, and leaders. You love diving deep into products - understanding how they work, why they matter, and how to make them better - and you're motivated by solving new problems every day. You naturally lead through influence, bring clarity to ambiguous situations, and want a role where your decisions and ideas truly impact customers, partners, and the future of a global brand.
Helping You Thrive By:
- Offering competitive wages and benefits, that support your life both in and out of work
- Providing a flexible hybrid work schedule, meaning we expect the office to be your primary place of work, balanced with choice and control.
- 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 cross-functional initiatives that translate customer needs, market insights, and strategic priorities into a clear product road map across the portfolio.
- Partnering with engineering, design, operations, and marketing teams to execute multiyear global product development projects.
- Managing the full product lifecycle - monitoring quality, optimizing performance, and identifying opportunities to streamline or improve existing products.
- Guiding gotomarket efforts by supporting sales, delivering product training, preparing presentations, and enhancing portfolio value propositions.
- Synthesizing input from customer vertical markets, sales teams, and key stakeholders to align unique needs into unified product strategies.
- Driving strategic initiatives in areas such as sustainability, ergonomic research, new business models, or portfoliolevel projects that elevate the seating business.
- Acting as the subject matter expert for core seating products, ensuring deep understanding of product performance, materials, manufacturing, and customer experience.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree OR equivalent demonstrated corporate experience in a relevant business environment.
- 5-8 years of experience working in a corporate setting, ideally within product management, operations, supply chain, project management, strategy, or another crossfunctional role.
- Experience contributing to or leading aspects of largescale, crossfunctional initiatives (e.g., product launches, plant moves, operational projects, strategic projects, reorganizations).
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, build coalitions, and navigate matrixed environments.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities across disciplines and partners.
- Critical thinking and analytical capability to evaluate product decisions, market needs, and business opportunities.
- Comfort operating with high autonomy - proactively defining direction, rationale, and next steps.
- Experience with physical product management, durable goods, and product lifecycle management (preferred but not required).
- Ability to synthesize input from diverse stakeholders and translate broad insights into clear product strategy.
- Empathy for customers, sales partners, and crossfunctional teams - with the ability to consider perspectives beyond your own.
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
Feb 03, 2026