Global Product Director, Injection Molding

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The Global Product Director is the senior business and strategy owner for the Protolabs product lines of Injection Molding, accountable for revenue growth, customer acquisition and retention, margin performance, and long-term competitiveness. This role coordinates the end-to-end delivery of product line financial objectives while defining and executing the multi-year product line strategy, grounded in customer value, market intelligence, and operational feasibility.

The Global Product Director leads the translation of market opportunity into clear product roadmaps, investment priorities, and go-to-market execution, working in tight partnership with Operations, Global Technology Services (GTS), Sales, Marketing, Finance, and the Manufacturing Partner Network. This role is jointly accountable with Sales and Operations for product line profitability and is the single point of accountability for product strategy and performance.

Why This Role Matters at Protolabs?

This role is central to scaling Protolabs’ digital manufacturing platform, ensuring that product strategy, operational execution, and commercial performance remain tightly aligned. The Global Product Director is a business owner, strategist, and integrator, responsible for turning market opportunity into profitable, differentiated growth.

While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use a computer keyboard, monitor and mouse, telephone and printer; reach with hands, and arms, talk, see and hear.  The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop or kneel and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Indoors (A/C); nonsmoking; the majority of this job function is performed in an office setting requiring normal safety precautions. However, there may be job duties that require the employee to spend time in the manufacturing areas exposed to machinery and noise; eye protection occasionally required. Occasionally works in outside weather conditions. Occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.