Product Manager - Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)

Your Title: Product Manager - Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)

Location: Westminster, CO

Our Department: Geospatial

As a Product Manager for Trimble GNSS you will be responsible for the roadmap, development, execution and support of GNSS hardware. Acting as the bridge between our users and engineering teams, you are responsible for bringing products to life, ensuring that the products delivered aligns with the business strategy and meets the customers' expectations. As a GNSS Product Manager, you will have a central and visible role, with freedom to identify and pursue opportunities to enhance the GNSS portfolio for the betterment of the customer. You can embrace both an opportunity to make your mark on core positioning technology, and have a great opportunity for career evolution in an international environment.

What You Will Do

You will collaborate across Trimble to identify market opportunities, define user requirements, and develop business models and go-to-market strategies for transformative solutions. The Product Manager will lead product development of GNSS hardware, collaborating consistently with global engineering, operations, sales and support teams to prioritize, document, and deliver successful solutions. 

• Collaborate with stakeholders across Trimble to define and execute a high-value product roadmap and strategy 

• Liaise with go to market teams to gather customer requirements to formulate product requirements and justify project proposals 

• Work with research and development teams to identify key areas of technology development and evaluate market potential

• Work alongside other product managers to deliver and maintain a compelling product portfolio of GNSS hardware, system components, accessories and field and office software

• 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

• Manage released products through the full lifecycle, including quality control and technical support, and the sunsetting and replacement of products

• Monitor the financial performance of your GNSS products and develop growth plans with sales and go to market teams

• Represent Trimble and the Trimble GNSS solutions at marketing events, industry conferences, and trade shows

• Interpret internal/external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products, processes or services.

• Define and drive best practices across the organization

• Ability to effectively present your product strategy to executive levels

• Impact product innovation and customer success utilizing Trimble solutions

• 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.

What Skills and Experience You Should Bring

• Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Geomatics, GIS, Cartography, Civil, Mechanical engineering, or similar

• At least 3 years of product management experience

• Excellent written and verbal communications with ability to communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Capable of working across multiple time-zones with internal and external constituents to drive clear communication and deliver results

• Fundamental understanding of financial metrics for hardware products

• Experience with tools such as JIRA, DOMO, Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides)

• 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.

• Ability to translate voice of customer to product and engineering teams and key stakeholders

• A self-starter and a problem solver with a positive attitude, and desire for continuous learning

• Experience or exposure to sales, technical support, knowledge of additional languages are also beneficial