RF Site Product 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 OverviewOur product management team is responsible for the definition of our next generation mission critical group communications system strategy, go-to-market approach and product roadmap. The team interacts with development and UI/UX teams based in Copenhagen, Krakow and the Chicago area. We are spread across the US with a concentration in Chicago. We utilize an Agile development process and incorporate continuous feedback from our customers.
Job Description

Motorola Solutions is looking for a dynamic Product Manager to join a high energy, collaborative team working on our repeater platform for public safety and commercial customers' communications and workflow application needs.  This team has end-to-end ownership of the definition, planning, delivery and sunset of the entire portfolio.  Members drive product & solution direction across engineering, sales, marketing, supply chain, services and field engineering.

Product Managers are the CEOs of their product. Product managers must plan for what the teams will deliver and when they will deliver it. The product manager manages dependencies in and across releases, product and support teams; and manages releases with phases and milestones.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining the 'why', 'what,' and 'when' of the product that the development team will build. 

• Create and manage feature backlog, roadmap, and vision.

• Complete ownership of their product portfolio from end-to-end.  

• Define financial goals, including product cost and cost to deliver services

• Maintain strong financial governance of their product portfolio

• Drive complex strategic projects to completion and successfully communicate the results to key stakeholders.

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

• Collecting, curating, and promoting the most relevant ideas into initiatives.  Prioritizing initiatives to achieve key objectives for the product line and business.

• Gather continuous VOS (voice of sales) and VOC (voice of customer) and ensuring this is seamlessly integrated into the product planning and development processes.

• Establish a close working relationship with our Customer Success Manager to ensure customer feedback is being incorporated into the product roadmap and drive requirements to Customer Success on business telemetry needs.

• Support the organizations that help bring the product to market and work directly with customers including procurement, marketing, sales, training and support services.

• Act as the customer advocate to deliver a product to solve their problems

Our culture

As a product manager on our team, you must have the ability to apply an entrepreneurial mind-set in a large commercial enterprise. We celebrate a culture of innovation and work closely with our engineering colleagues to create solutions that truly impact the communities we serve. We have a customer-first mentality in word and deed, with the ability to quick turn market feedback into our production environment, enabled by a modern, agile devops process and a microservice based cloud solution.  Since not all Public Safety customers have access to this cloud solution, on-premise solutions will also require strategy, vision and development to serve our entire customer base.

We value team members who are willing to wear many hats, who take personal initiative, anticipating what needs to be done, and resolving problems before they emerge; but who are also willing to ask for help, to assist others and work together.  We truly believe that engaged employees perform the best, so we ensure all feel a sense of ownership in their work by providing them with meaningful projects in an inclusive environment where all voices are listened to with respect.  Although we do work hard, we also like to have fun while doing so.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required

• 3+ years experience in product management, engineering or product marketing 

• Experience developing and validating market problems based on industry experience and contact with customers and stakeholders.

• Strong understanding of the software development life cycle and technical acumen to communicate effectively with development engineering and our technical end users is required. 

• Strong analytical skills

• Experience within Public Safety & Federal markets desired

• Experience launching products to international and federal markets desired

• Knowledge of ASTRO or Project 25 (P25) is a plus.

Travel RequirementsUnder 10%
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperiencedReferral Payment PlanNoCompanyMotorola Solutions Systems Polska Sp.z.o.o

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you'd like to join our team but feel that you don't quite meet all of the preferred skills, we'd still love to hear why you think you'd be a great addition to our team.

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