Product Manager | Digital Machine Platform

About the Position

Product Manager | Digital Machine Platform

Lantek is a leading multinational company providing software solutions for the industrial sector, specializing in Industry 4.0 and digital transformation. With more than 400 professionals and a presence in 16 countries, we are committed to continuous innovation to optimize manufacturing processes worldwide.

About the Role

As Product Manager – Digital Machine Platform, you will define the vision, strategy, and roadmap of the platform that connects Lantek’s software portfolio with the physical manufacturing environment.

You will lead the evolution of our CNC post-processing and machine connectivity capabilities, ensuring the platform continues to meet today’s customer needs while laying the foundations for the next generation of connected manufacturing.

Working closely with Engineering, Software Architecture, Quality, Support, subsidiaries, customers, and industrial technology partners, you will play a key role in strengthening one of Lantek’s core differentiators: supporting one of the industry's broadest multi-vendor and multi-technology manufacturing ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Digital-to-Machine Platform, balancing the continuous evolution of current capabilities with the foundations required for future sheet metal machines and manufacturing scenarios.
• Lead the evolution of Lantek’s post-processing, CNC, and machine configuration capabilities across its multi-vendor and multi-technology ecosystem, ensuring accurate, reliable, and compatible machine-ready output.
• Define a global approach for managing postprocessors and machine-specific assets through their complete lifecycle, including catalogue, discovery, provisioning, versioning, compatibility, distribution, and automated updates.
• Shape the connectivity capabilities required for Lantek software to communicate and interact with physical equipment, and to capture, normalize, and make machine data available to downstream applications for monitoring, performance analysis, and machine KPIs.
• Enable faster and more consistent support for new machines, controllers, and manufacturing technologies, promoting reuse and standardization while preserving the flexibility required by a diverse machine ecosystem.
• Engage with customers, subsidiaries, application specialists, machine-tool builders, controller manufacturers, and technology partners to understand needs, validate direction, and translate industry developments into product priorities.
• Work closely with engineering, software architecture, and other product teams to define measurable outcomes and deliver a coherent evolution across the Lantek portfolio.
• Apply advances in software architecture, cloud services, automation, and AI-assisted engineering to improve the scalability, quality, and speed with which machine capabilities are created, validated, and delivered globally.

Requirements

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Automation, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Advanced level of English.
• Proven experience as a Product Manager within CAD/CAM, CNC, industrial automation, or manufacturing software.
• Strong understanding of CNC postprocessors, machine connectivity, controller behavior, or machine configuration.
• Knowledge of industrial communication protocols and connected manufacturing environments.
• Experience working with machine-tool builders, CNC controller manufacturers, or industrial technology partners will be highly valued.
• Familiarity with cloud-based platforms, distributed architectures, automation, or AI applied to industrial software is a plus.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to bridge technical and business perspectives.

We Offer

• Permanent contract.
• Hybrid working model and flexible working hours.
• The opportunity to shape one of Lantek's most strategic technology platforms.
• Innovative projects within a global company leading the digital transformation of manufacturing.
• A dynamic, collaborative, and highly qualified international team.

If you want to be part of the future of smart industry, this is your opportunity! Join Lantek - we’re looking forward to welcoming you.