At Sidekick, our mission is straightforward: help people recover faster from persistent injuries. Trusted by Olympic champions and everyday individuals, our products have been featured in Men's Health, Running Magazine, and more. We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to own products end to end, from spotting the opportunity, to defining what gets built, to signing off the first production run.

The hardest part of this job is commercial judgment. But the unique skill we’re looking for in this role is commercial instinct. You’ll report to the CEO and work daily with our Industrial Designer, engineers, physiotherapist, Chief Growth Officer, operations team and manufacturing partners.

You’ll run 4–8 products at different stages at once. Hunt for unmet needs — customer interviews, review mining, physio conversations, category data, competitive teardowns. Then test them cheaply before we commit.

Drive prototyping — work with our Industrial Designer and engineers to build, test and iterate prototypes until the design is ready for manufacturing. Validate with real users — run focus groups and testing, document pass/fail against every requirement, and make the call when a prototype falls short, costs come in over, or testing says pivot.



Drive DFM and tooling — approve pre-tooling samples, verify tolerances, sign off tooling and the golden sample.

Take it to market — close out compliance, packaging, manuals, product photography, then oversee the first production run and set the QC criteria, inspection standards and handover docs that keep it right at scale. 5+ years developing mechanical consumer products. Plastic injection molded parts, mechanical assemblies, tooled hardware. Deep familiarity with injection molding.

Draft, wall thickness, gate location, sink, tool actions, cavitation, and what each one does to unit cost and tooling cost. You’ve shipped at least 10 products. You’ve owned commercial outcomes, not just delivery.

Engineering foundation. A mechanical engineering background is ideal, with equivalent hands-on experience.

Background or serious personal involvement in physiotherapy, rehab, strength training, coaching or endurance sport. Our customers are in pain — understanding that from the inside is worth more to us than a trend report.

Experience with regulated consumer products and medical devices. 100,000–$130,000 CAD base, depending on experience Hybrid — Toronto office, with work-from-home days

📌 Senior Product Manager (hardgoods) (Toronto)
🏢 Sidekick
📍 Toronto