Critical Communications Astro System Management: Manager

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. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

The Astro Value Stream is responsible for the development of best in class P25 networking infrastructure solutions. There are development teams based in Krakow and in Schaumburg. The product management team is located in Schaumburg. It's an exciting time to be a member of Astro as we are starting on a journey to modernize our portfolio as well as optimizing our development practices to deliver content more efficiently and in a totally seamless manner to our customers.

Job Description

The product manager will be responsible for strategy, roadmap, and feature definition within the Astro VS including interfacing with engineering teams, marketing, working with sales on forecasting, and with finance on profit and loss (P&L) responsibilities.

The product manager analyzes market and competitive conditions and lays out a product vision that is differentiated and delivers unique value based on customer demands. The role of the product manager spans many activities from strategic to tactical and provides cross-functional leadership—bridging gaps within the company between different functions, especially between development, sales and marketing, and support.

The product manager is the person responsible for defining the ‘why’, ‘what,’ and ‘when’ of the product that the development team will build. They are the director of their product -- which means they direct cross-functional teams from a product's conception through to its launch

Product management responsibilities include:

 

As a manager of the System Management suite with Astro Infrastructure, this person will be responsible for a team that manages the PDM responsibilities. The Manager will need to drive their team to complete tasks on time and with in the project budget. They will need to create a collaborative culture with other Value Streams include Consoles, RF Sites, Unified Communications, all the teams in the Service organization and Sales.

The System Management portfolio consists of UNC/UNCr, UEM/UEMr, PM, CM, Affiliation Display, Reporting, ATR, Zone Watch/Call Monitoring, Radio Control Manager, Genesis, Crystal Reports, Astro Upgrade Service (AUS), SDM/MC Edge, and the Service Delivery Efficiency (SDE) program.

Product Strategy

 

The product manager is responsible for setting a product vision and strategy. Their job is to clearly articulate the business value to the product team so they understand the intent behind the new product or product release. They own the strategy behind the product along with its roadmap and must work with development to define, prioritize and build what matters.

• Create and manage backlog, roadmap, and vision

• Identify customer needs and market requirements

• Evaluate competitive intelligence

• Define financial goals

• Create business plans for new systems and for continuous lifecycle systems

• Manage strategic partners and third party suppliers

Product Releases

PdMs must plan for what their teams will deliver and when they will deliver it. The product manager owns the release aspect of the product. Release responsibilities include managing epics and dependencies in and across releases, product and support teams; and managing releases with phases and milestones.

• Define market offer and structure for new systems and for continuous lifecycle systems

• Make products orderable, deliverable, and loveable

• Define and support implementation of training, support and deployment requirements

• Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality

• Coordinate overall release project and schedule

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Product Visioning

• Collecting, curating, and promoting the most relevant ideas into epics. Defining which ideas should be promoted to epics to achieve key objectives for the product line and business. Soliciting feedback and requests from