Optical Hardware Product Manager

Your Title: Optical Hardware Product Manager

Job Location: Westminster, CO

Our Department: Field Systems

Trimble takes pride in ensuring the success of our customers that utilize our surveying solutions, and at the core of this are highly collaborative product leaders. The Geospatial division is currently seeking a new Core Positioning Hardware (CPHW) Product Manager. The CPHW team develop new hardware products that transform the way the world works. CPHW encompasses GNSS, Optical, Communications and Accessories that are at the heart of Geospatial and Trimble solutions. We provide solutions that connect the physical and digital worlds, and as a CPHW Product Manager, enabling an internationally recognized, flagship product portfolio, you will be an integral part in ensuring the continued success of these solutions and our worldwide user base.

What You Will Do

As a Product Manager for Trimble Geospatial CPHW, you will own and manage products through the full life cycle from leasing with go to market teams on new product concepts, to development, to launch, active sales, and then retirement. Working as part of a lively, collaborative, innovative, customer-focused and diverse Product Marketing team, you will interact closely with engineers, designers, operations, quality assurance and market acceptance testers, compliance, sales, service, business systems and support teams that are distributed globally to define, prioritize, document and deliver successful solutions.

As a CPHW Product Manager, you will have a central and visible role, with freedom to identify and pursue opportunities to enhance the CPHW portfolio for the betterment of the customer. You can embrace both an opportunity to make your mark on core positioning technology, and a great opportunity for career evolution in an international environment.

• Take your products through the core development stages from concept generation through to release to market. Including feature definition, prioritization and negotiation, documentation such as manuals and brochures, product compliance, part number creation and management, business systems integration and eCommerce product purchase experience.

• Work alongside Geospatial product marketing and go to market teams to deliver and maintain a compelling CPHW product portfolio for all customer segments and focus areas.

• Maintain tight collaboration from Geospatial division to other core Trimble divisions, including Building Construction and Civil Engineering.

• Maintain collaborative relationships with joint venture partners as appropriate including but not limited to the Nikon-Trimble Joint Venture and Trimble Hilti joint venture.

• Manage released products through the full lifecycle, including managing quality and support issues that arise, and the sunsetting and replacement of products.

• Contribute to and maintain a Trimble CPHW product strategy and roadmap, identifying opportunities for new and improved products to support our customer and business needs, in conjunction with the wider Product Marketing team.

• Trimble Mechanical Total Station (MTS) product ownership

What Skills & 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

• 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 (Japanese is preferred)

• Able to take general guidance and apply it to other situations, working with minimal direction

• A strong and demonstrated geospatial or construction surveying background with a passion for the Geospatial industry and a curiosity for understanding how our customers operate globally.

• Expected international and domestic travel up to 10-20%.