Product Manager - Enterprise broadband devices

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.

About the role

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

Qualifications

• 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!