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Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to building a diverse team that feels they are valued in the workplace. So do you feel you do not meet every single requirement but still intrigued? We encourage you to still apply! You can help make our company even better. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, age, mental or physical ability, or any way you represent yourself. We strongly believe diversity makes for more successful teams.
Why Protolabs?
We are the leaders in digital manufacturing. We hire doers, makers, and creative thinkers who tackle our roles with an entrepreneurial spirit. Our culture is centered around meaningful work that brings new and innovative products to market at unprecedented speeds. We are a diverse team that comes from all walks of life and take pride in our team who is smart, genuine, humble, and passionate about what we do. It’s our people who fuel our creativity and make our culture feel like home.
We are looking for a Technical Product Manager to join our team in Amsterdam!
As a Technical Product Manager, you will own a key operational domain within the Protolabs Network, focusing on evolving our Manufacturing Partner Platform and optimizing how we allocate the right orders to the right suppliers.
In this role, you will define and execute the product strategy and roadmap for your domain. Your responsibilities will include managing order allocation, tracking our partners’ capabilities, capacity, and performance, and ensuring an efficient and delightful experience for both our manufacturing partners and internal users.
We maintain a high-ownership, outcome-oriented product culture. Teams are empowered to understand problems deeply, make informed trade-offs and ship iteratively. We value curiosity, clear thinking and respectful collaboration.
If you’re excited about solving hard allocation and marketplace problems, and you want your work to directly shape how physical products get made all over the world, we’d love to hear from you.
What you’ll do
- Own strategy & roadmap for your domain within the platform and make data-driven prioritization decisions with operations, commercial, and network stakeholders
- Deeply understand partner segments (capabilities, performance, preferences), customer needs (lead time, quality, cost), and end-to-end workflows from quote to delivery
- Discover, measure, iterate - run problem validation, experiments, and prototypes. Write clear PRDs. Own post-launch metrics like adoption, allocation quality, on-time delivery, and margin impact
- Drive execution with engineering and design on a predictable cadence. Manage scope, risks, and dependencies; shield the team from low-value distractions
- Partner with the business on partner lifecycle (onboarding, performance, engagement) and network-wide tradeoffs across speed, quality, cost, and utilization
- Partner on engineering health - work with engineering leadership to balance feature delivery with investments in reliability, scalability, and maintainability
- Advocate for sustainable pace and platform quality
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of product management (or closely related) experience
- Demonstrated ownership of a product, feature set or domain from discovery through launch and adoption
- Experience working day-to-day with software engineers and designers in an agile environment, with a predictable shipping cadence
Product & analytical skills
- Comfortable working with funnels, experiments and cost/benefit framing to support decisions
- Ability to define clear success metrics and measure product performance against business outcomes and KPIs
- User-centric mindset with the ability to balance customer, business and operational considerations
Collaboration & communication
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Able to create clarity in complex domains and build alignment without direct authority
- Pragmatic, decisive and impact-oriented: you focus on outcomes over outputs
Nice to have
- Experience in digital manufacturing, B2B marketplaces, supply chain or e-commerce
- Familiarity with ERP/MES concepts, order orchestration, allocation/routing engines and API-first systems
- Experience with analytics and discovery tools (e.g. Looker/Domo/Tableau, SQL, Miro)
- Exposure to complex operational environments where technology, people and process all need to work together
What's in it for you?
- Part of our incredible journey is clearly down to our amazing team, and we strongly believe in giving people a space to truly, authentically be themselves. We also believe that treating our employees well and sprinkling a great place to work with some nice perks can make work a little sweeter.
- Annual company bonus. We celebrate success together! Employees are not only rewarded for their achievements but also for contributing to the overall success of the business.
- Wellness and well-being with access to OpenUp psychologists, practice mindfulness with Headspace and tons more.
- Doggo-friendly office. We are big pet lovers and fully encourage hanging out with your (and your colleagues’) furry friends in the office
- Daily Lunch and snacks are provided in the office; it's a moment for our teams to connect and recharge. Shared meals strengthen our bonds and fuel collaboration.
- We offer learning and development days to be used for training or on volunteering, money to spend on learning courses, events, trainings, Access to our in-house LEARN platform with diverse courses, training, and workshops, In-house 3D Printing and much more!
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