At Sidekick, our mission is simple: 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 Product Manager to own current products end to end - from finding the opportunity, to defining what gets built, to signing off the first production run.

You'll work daily with our Industrial Designer, engineers, physiotherapists, growth team and manufacturing partners. A weak one can't be rescued by good engineering. So the foundation of this job is engineering and briefing.

You need enough technical depth to hold your own with our engineers and our factories, and the discipline to define a product properly before anyone starts building it. That's commercial judgment, and it's the thing that separates a good PM here from a great one. If you have the engineering foundation and the instinct - you read customer reviews for fun, you have opinions on why one competitor is winning and another isn't, you think about price and margin without being asked - we'll build the rest with you.

Hunt for unmet needs - customer interviews, review mining, physio conversations, category data, competitive teardowns. Build the case - target customer, positioning, target price, target margin, and the assumptions that have to be true. Go deep enough on the physiology to know what a solution actually has to do,



then test the risky assumptions cheaply before we commit.

Drive prototyping and validation - work with our Industrial Designer and engineers until the design is manufacturable, run user testing against every requirement, and make the call when a prototype falls short 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 - compliance, packaging, manuals, photography, then oversee the first production run and set the QC standards that hold quality at scale.

Mechanical assemblies, tooled hardware, injection molded parts. ~ An engineering background. Mechanical engineering is ideal; You've taken products through tooling into production. Working knowledge of injection molding - draft, wall thickness, gate location, sink, tool actions - and how each affects unit cost and tooling cost.

You know what a T1 sample is and how to tell when a factory's "yes" means "no." ~ You can explain why a customer would choose ours over what's already out there, and your reasoning holds up when we push back on it. ~ You see the product from the customer's side. You talk to customers directly and translate what they can't articulate into sharp requirements. 90,000-$110,000 CAD base, depending on experience ~ Hybrid - Toronto office, with work-from-home days ~

📌 Product Manager (Mechanical Engineering Background) (Toronto)
🏢 Sidekick
📍 Toronto