Product Manager - Enterprise broadband devices

Description

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

Motorola Solutions is building talent pipelines to meet future hiring demands. This is a pipeline role, while there is not an immediate opening, we want to build relationships with prospective candidates like you. If your background is a match to our requirements, we’ll follow up with an exploratory conversation.

The Devices Product Manager will be responsible for

Analyzing the market and competitive environment and using it to drive and deliver unique value to our customers through our products

Plan and execute Voice of Customer/Partners/Sales to obtain feedback on market needs and what features add value to the product and portfolio

Develop the Business Case and Forecast for the product, including financial analysis to determine whether the project makes business sense

Define the product requirements and work with Engineering, Sales and other stakeholders through the product definition and development process

Plan and conduct Customer Touch Points, Alphas and Betas with customers to obtain feedback and validation throughout the development process

Work closely with Sales, Marketing and Training teams to develop the go to market strategy, ordering mechanism as well as marketing and training materials

Support Sales with launch, promotion and other activities

Define the product's support, repair and service strategy working with the service team

Work with internal stakeholders to improve the overall customer experience

Look holistically at hardware, software and services to drive value proposition of the product

Seek out external partnerships to identify product integration opportunities

Requirements

• Technical Competency - Understand engineering concepts and how to best extract value from the technology at hand. Provide guidance or direction to Engineering when tradeoffs have to be made.
• Communication - Able to concisely and clearly communicate product ideas and definitions to the team as well as management
• Skilled at eliciting requirements, use cases and problem statements from customers, partners and sales. Identify where the biggest problems and highest value are.
• Leadership - provide direction to the team, resolve conflicts when necessary, step in where needed and escalated as required. Make the tough calls and decisions.
• Finance - Understanding of basic business financial concepts, Profit/Loss statement, Margins.
• Independent and able to hit the ground running with minor supervision but wise and not shy to raise hand when required.
• Positive energy and willingness to learn
• Problem Solving: Organized and logical approach to tackling business problems
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate complex concepts.
• Relationship Building: Builds strong working relationships and contributes to a positive work environment
• Collaborator: Strong team mentality. Able to work within different groups to define and achieve business goals
• Results Oriented: Effectively executes on plans, strives for results and takes accountability
• Curiosity: Desire to ask the “Why” and “What if” questions.
• Basic Requirements
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field. MBA or other graduate degree is a plus
• 5+ years of experience in Engineering or in Product Planning/Product Marketing/Product Management
• Travel Requirements
• None
• Relocation Provided
• None
• Position Type
• Experienced
• Referral Payment Plan
• No
• Our U.S. Benefits include:
• Incentive Bonus Plans
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
• 401K with Company Match
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Generous Paid Time Off Packages
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid Parental & Family Leave
• and more!