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Associate Product Manager

Ecolab
Naperville, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 7/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/11/2026
As Associate Product Manager and a key member of our Ecolab Digital Global Water team, you will own the strategic roadmap and on-going lifecycle governance for new and existing products in Ecolab Industrial. These products include cloud-based, customer-facing software solutions as well as desktop/mobile apps for Ecolab users. The products may include data acquisition/transfer, data visualization/descriptive analytics, documentation of customer value, and integration with other digital products.

What’s In It For You

  • The opportunity to take on some of the world’s most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, and healthy environments
  • The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
  • The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives and ideas to achieve our best

What You Will Do

  • Connect or translate between business and technical
  • Build the strategic roadmap of the product and lead on-going product lifecycle governance
  • Facilitate the value prop, data and analytics that matter, and technical readiness with the Business Owner
  • Promote enterprise digital strategy, leveraging the power and value of our ONE Ecolab digital brand to empower business growth
  • Interact with customers, assisting on the ‘digital sale’
  • Identify opportunities for business-led delivery, and provide consultative support in understanding trade-offs and developing consensus
  • Protect and grow margins through product management
  • Drive innovation leadership all the way from idea creation through market execution
  • Promote new technology opportunities and trends to business partners
  • Communicate emerging business and consumer trends to delivery teams
  • Broker internal and external resources
  • Collaborate with delivery team(s) to deliver prioritized features, functional support, financial management, and release management
  • Manages and leads high level project plans and communicates status updates to stakeholders
  • Deliver the best outcome-based solutions to our customers through digital programs and products
  • Coach employees to make use of technology and information
  • Lead business analysts, knows what the team can deliver, and drives delivery commitments
  • Attract, develop and retain capable digital marketing talent

Minimum Qualifications

  • Degree in Marketing, Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field
  • 5 years of relevant experience
  • Demonstrated ability influence without authority
  • Product discovery and ideation experience
  • Ability to communicate effectively across a variety of stakeholders (business owners, developers, senior business leaders)
  • Proven track record of successfully delivering projects on time, in budget, to scope, and with high quality
  • Resourceful and independently driven with bias toward action, able to deliver results with light-touch direction
  • Ability to work deep in the details while driving the bigger, strategic picture
  • Experience in software development
  • No immigration sponsorship available for this position

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in phase-gated new product development as a BA, Digital Product Manager, Marketer, or RD&E Researcher
  • Experience working with data collection from multiple data sources (historians, clouds, databases, etc)
  • Demonstrated product management experience in driving product vision and roadmapping
  • Scrum experience and experience working with agile methodologies

Annual Or Hourly Compensation Range

The pay range for this position is $118,100.00 - $177,100.00. Many factors are taken into consideration when determining compensation, such as experience, education, training, geography, etc. We comply with all minimum wage and overtime laws.

Benefits

Ecolab strives to provide comprehensive and market-competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families. Click here to see our benefits.

If you are viewing this posting on a site other than our Ecolab Career website, view our benefits at jobs.ecolab.com/working-here.

Potential Customer Requirements Notice

To meet customer requirements and comply with local or state regulations, applicants for certain customer-facing roles may need to:

  • Undergo additional background screens and/or drug/alcohol testing for customer credentialing.
  • Be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, including a booster if eligible, unless a religious or medical accommodation is requested by the applicant and approved by Ecolab.

Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)

Ecolab will provide reasonable accommodation (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with our application process upon request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require accommodation assistance in this application process, please visit the Recruiting Support link in the footer of each page of our career website.

Our Commitment to a Culture of Inclusion & Belonging

At Ecolab, we believe the best teams are inclusive. We are on a journey to create a workplace where every associate can grow and achieve their best. We are committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement based on individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, we will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran.

In addition, we are committed to furthering the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) through Affirmative Action (AA).

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.

Salary : $118,100 - $177,100

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