Optical Hardware Product Manager

Description

• Impacts product innovation and customer success utilizing Trimble solutions
• Work with research and development teams to identify key areas of technology development and evaluate market potential
• Manage released products through the full lifecycle, including quality control, technical support, and the sunsetting and replacement of products
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Trimble to define and execute a high-value product roadmap and strategy
• Interpret internal/external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products, processes or services.
• Monitor the financial performance of your Core Hardware products and develop growth plans with sales and go to market teams
• Develop specialized depth and breadth of knowledge in their domain
• Take products from concept generation through to release to market. Including feature definition, prioritization and negotiation, documentation such as manuals and brochures, support product compliance, part number management, business systems integration and market launch deliverables
• Defining and driving best practices across the organization
• Many tasks will require collaboration and cooperation with various groups that are often not under your direct control. You must be able to represent the marketing team's interest and justify the requests with these groups to achieve your desired result.
• Liaise with go to market teams to gather customer requirements to formulate product requirements and justify project proposals
• Represent Trimble and the Trimble Core Hardware solutions at marketing events, industry conferences, and trade shows
• Work alongside other product managers to deliver and maintain a compelling core hardware product portfolio of Optical, GNSS and Radio hardware, system components, accessories and field and office software

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Geomatics, GIS, Cartography, Civil, Mechanical engineering, or similar
• Fundamental understanding of financial metrics for hardware products
• Ability to translate voice of customer to product and engineering teams and key stakeholders
• At least 3 years of product management experience
• Capable of working across multiple time-zones with internal and external constituents to drive clear communication and deliver results
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple projects at the same time and provide disciplined leadership to project team members.
• Effective time management and ability to work in a dynamic environment while responding to changing priorities.
• A strong and demonstrated geospatial or construction surveying background with a passion for the Geospatial industry and a curiosity for understanding how our customers operate globally.
• Ability to effectively present your product strategy to executive levels
• Experience or exposure to sales, technical support, knowledge of additional languages are also beneficial
• Expected international and domestic travel up to 20%.
• Excellent written and verbal communications with ability to communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Able to take general guidance and apply it to other situations, working with minimal direction
• Experience with tools such as JIRA, DOMO, Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides)

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance