Join us as we empower the world to work out, creating healthier lives together.About the Opportunity:
The Assistant Product Manager, Cardio, plays a pivotal role in supporting the product management team by ensuring the success of new and current product lines through meticulous management of materials, competitive analysis, logistics coordination, and collaboration on new product development initiatives. This role involves working closely with cross-functional teams to maintain high-quality marketing, training, and customer-facing resources while contributing to ongoing product improvements and market research efforts.
This is a hybrid position based out of our Product Development & Engineering facility in Franklin Park, IL. The position requires in-office collaboration on Tuesdays through Thursdays, with remote work on Mondays and Fridays. #LI-Hybrid
Key Responsibilities
Product Training & Education Support
- Manage and update competitive analysis documentation to support strategic decision-making.
- Track domestic and international trends within technology product category, segments, channels and industry.
- Work with product marketing team to review and update marketing materials, ensuring the accuracy of features, benefits, specifications, and other relevant product details.
- Oversee the review, maintenance, and enhancement of training and educational materials for internal and external stakeholders.
- Manage and maintain the FAQ database, ensuring clarity and relevance for internal teams.
Logistics & Coordination
- Support field testing logistics for cardio products, ensuring timely and effective execution.
- Oversee showroom inventory, ensuring accuracy and alignment with current product offerings.
Communication & Collaboration
- Act as a point of communication for field-related feedback regarding product quality and enhancement opportunities. Interface between Customer Support Services, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Engineering to establish and maintain processes for escalating product problems towards resolution.
- Support market research activities by gathering and analyzing data to inform product strategies, working with the market research team.
Project Management
- Lead smaller projects and product enhancement initiatives
- Provide support for larger new development projects managed by product managers
Qualifications
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Product Management, or a related field.
- 1–3 years of experience in product management, marketing, or a related field (fitness industry experience is a plus).
Skills & Competencies
- Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to handle multiple priorities effectively.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficiency in using marketing and project management tools (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, project management software).
- Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and provide actionable insights.
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and collaborative team player.
Additional Requirements
- Ability to travel occasionally for field testing, trade shows, customer visits, etc.
At Life Fitness / Hammer Strength, we believe in taking care of our team with a comprehensive total rewards package that includes competitive pay and a range of valuable benefits. The salary range for this position, intended for U.S. applicants, is $67,100 - $81,800 annually.
This role is categorized as non-exempt and eligible for overtime in accordance with applicable law.The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s education, experience, skills, and abilities. The salary range reflected is based on a primary work location of Franklin Park, IL and the actual salary may vary for applicants in a different geographic location.
Life Fitness / Hammer Strength offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time team members, including, but not limited to: a 401(k) savings plan with 4% employer match; medical, dental and vision insurance, parental, medical and military leaves of absence, paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, paid vacation days beginning at 13 days annually, paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, company paid short-term disability and optional long-term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance, hospital indemnity; identity protection, legal services, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, employee discounts, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions. Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies.
Want to take the next step in your career?
Life Fitness/Hammer Strength takes pride in our talented employees and believes in providing opportunities for further growth and advancement. We encourage you to test your strengths, push your limits, and unleash your potential. If you feel the position is right for you, we invite you to apply. We’ll work with you closely to support you throughout the hiring process. If your CV/ resume shows that your skills and experience have synergy with the job description, then we’ll hop on a call to get to know you and your experience and discuss the position in more detail. If it’s not the right opportunity this time, we’ll always let you know.
Life Fitness / Hammer Strength is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, are encouraged to apply. Life Fitness / Hammer Strength complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding employment, recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
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Life Fitness/Hammer Strength does not accept applications, inquiries or solicitations from unapproved staffing agencies or vendors.
Top Skills
What We Do
For over five decades, Life Fitness/Hammer Strength has crafted state-of-the art cardio and strength equipment that moves in sync with the human body, helping athletes and exercisers globally, become faster, stronger, and healthier.
We created fitness. Now we’re making it better.
In 1968 Dr. Keene Dimick invented the first piece of electronic fitness equipment – the exercise bike. His creative spirit is in our DNA and continues to inspire us every day.
Today, the way people live, work and play is ever-changing. A phenomenon that is putting new challenges on our collective wellbeing. As creators in fitness, we notice and act on this by innovating, engineering and manufacturing the best workout experiences that move every partner, customer, athlete and exerciser, forward together.
We believe that everybody gains from working out.
That is why, at Life Fitness/Hammer Strength, we partner with our customers to create intuitive, high-performance, cardio and strength solutions, that move with the body’s natural biomechanics to make every goal feel possible.
Driven by the standards demanded by elite athletes, we share a passion to engineer our products to be accessible to all – young and old, athlete and improver, well and in-recovery.
As experts in fitness equipment innovation, we set the bar for our industry. By never compromising on performance, quality, or reliability, we continue to raise that bar.
Our purpose is to empower the world to work out, creating healthier lives together.
Why Work With Us
We’re a customer-centric team, passionate about working together to deliver innovative fitness solutions that benefit both facilities and exercisers in over 160 countries. We value proactive collaborators who love a challenge, are eager to make a lasting impact, and are interested in growing with our business.
Inspire. Innovate. Make an impact
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