Product Manager

With over 1,400 employees and over 2,700 airports in over 175 countries, ADB SAFEGATE is dedicated to making air travel safe, efficient, and environmentally friendly. With our innovative Airside 4.0® solutions, we help turning airports into smart airports, with the ultimate goal of enhancing the passenger experience.

Product Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Job Location: Belgium - Machelen

Product Manager

Global Airfield Hardware

FUNCTION
Product Management

MARKET
Global

EMPLOYMENT
Full-time

TRAVEL
Up to 30%

The Opportunity

Help shape the next generation of airfield hardware for global airport markets. ADB SAFEGATE is seeking a hands-on Product Manager to own the strategy, roadmap, development, launch, lifecycle performance, and continuous improvement of products used by airports around the world. This role is ideal for a technically minded product professional who combines market and customer insight with sound business judgement, translates needs into clear priorities and requirements, and leads cross-functional teams toward successful product and business outcomes.

You will be accountable for assigned products across the full lifecycle, with a focus on Airfield Ground Lighting (AGL) hardware, airfield signs, isolation transformers, Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPIs), and related products for global markets. You will define product direction and priorities, make informed trade-offs, and partner closely with Engineering, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, and Service to deliver customer value and achieve business objectives.

What You Will Do

Own product strategy, roadmap, and development priorities

Define and communicate the product vision, strategy, positioning, and roadmap for assigned product lines.

Use customer, market, competitive, regulatory, service, and business insights to identify opportunities and translate them into clear product priorities and requirements.

Own prioritization and scope decisions, approve product trade-offs, and lead product readiness and market launch activities.

Maintain the product business case and roadmap, monitor key risks and dependencies, and drive timely decisions across stakeholders.

Communicate product direction, roadmap, performance, and key decisions to commercial, technical, and leadership stakeholders.

Own product lifecycle and portfolio performance

Own the commercial and operational performance of assigned product lines and maintain accurate lifecycle documentation.

Decide and coordinate product changes, certification impacts, obsolescence actions, investment priorities, and product transitions.

Evaluate and prioritize product enhancements, quality improvements, cost reductions, supply continuity actions, and lifecycle investments based on customer and business value.

Own phase-in and phase-out decisions and plans for new, updated, and legacy products, including customer and business impact.

Act as the accountable product representative for global Sales, Service, and regional teams.

Build structured customer and market insight by engaging airports, consultants, contractors, distributors, competitors, and internal stakeholders across regions.

Represent the product in strategic customer discussions, site visits, product demonstrations, and industry events.

Provide product positioning, value propositions, roadmap guidance, pricing input, and technical-commercial support for priority customer opportunities.

Drive product performance and continuous improvement

Set priorities with Quality, Service, Operations, and Engineering for field issue resolution based on safety, customer, commercial, and lifecycle impact.

Ensure corrective actions, product improvements, and lessons learned are incorporated into the roadmap and lifecycle plan.

Monitor product KPIs, recurring issues, reliability trends, financial performance, market feedback, and customer outcomes to identify improvement opportunities.

Use field and performance data to make evidence-based roadmap, investment, and phase-out decisions.

Own product-level compliance and certification priorities

Define product-level compliance and certification priorities related to FAA requirements, ICAO standards, and other applicable regional and international industry requirements.

Work with Engineering and certification teams to plan qualification, documentation, approvals, and market access activities.

Ensure product changes and roadmap decisions are assessed for regulatory, commercial, lifecycle, and customer impact.

Your primary scope will include but not limited to:

Global airfield lighting products, including FAA-compliant solutions

Elevated and inset AGL hardware

Airfield signs

Isolation transformers

PAPIs and