Product Manager

Your Title: Product Manager

Job Location: US-Remote Ohio, Canada - Remote, British Columbia, Canada - Remote, Ontario, US - Remote, New Jersey

Our Business Segment: Transportation & Logistics

About Trimble Transportation

Trimble Transportation is in business for optimizing the movement of freight by providing shippers and carriers both mobility, enterprise and visibility software tools they need to run their businesses more efficiently. As the leading provider of Transportation Management Software (TMS), Asset Management Software (AMS), and Fleet Management Software (FMS) we are devoted to propelling companies in the trucking industry toward increased efficiency, lower costs and optimize operations.

What You Will Do

As Product Manager, you will guide a team that is charged with a product line contribution as a business unit.  You will create customer delight by improving existing and developing new solutions and offerings that resolve issues  for the customer, and enhance profitability for the company. 

You will gather the needs of the market to build products, guided but not biased by your transportation experience and your interactions with customers and prospects.  You will be able to discern the patterns from feedback provided directly, and via the organization’s other interactions with customers such as support, sales, and implementation.  If you enjoy talking to people and they enjoy talking to you then this the role for you.  

You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality.

You must be able to communicate effectively and gather information at all levels internally and externally, from the C-Suite to the Trucker.  As Product Manager, you will work collaboratively with engineering to define product release requirements that will improve our customers experience.  You will work collaboratively with marketing communications to define the go-to-market strategy, and develop the product positioning, key benefits, and target customers. 

You will also serve as the internal and external evangelist for your product offering, working with the sales channel and key customers.  

A product manager’s key role is strategic, not tactical. Their role is determine what we need to buiild, explain what problems this solves, and why anyone would exchange money for this service.  Product Managers rely on their team members to determine how the problem is to be solved.  Product manager lead through influence.

Primary Responsibilities

• Managing the entire product line life cycle from ideation to deprecation 

• Specifying market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going interactions with customers and non-customers, in person and virtually

• Sheparding a solution set across development teams (primarily Development/Engineering, and Marketing Communications) through market requirements, product contract, and positioning

• Developing and implementing a company-wide go-to-market plan, cooperatively working with all departments to execute

• Analyzing potential partner relationships for the product

• Performs other duties as assigned/requested

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring

• Computer Science,  Engineering Degree, or equivalent Industry experience

• 3+ years’ of Product related experience

• Strong ability to analyze data and present conclusions  and ideas effectively using presentation tools, documents and spreadsheets

• Abilty to communicate concepts  to audiences of all sizes orally or  in writing

• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle, especially as it relates to a Business to Business 

• Ability to build rapport and trust with team members, customers and industry partners

• Team player committed to the success of the team and our customers

• Ability to establish and communicate priority of competing assignments that you are working on with

• Abilty to quickly respond to changing market conditions and challenges

Preferred

• Experience with Accounting, Enterprise Management, or Transportation Management software as an administrator or Product Manager

• Experience with product management best practices/ methodologies/ project lifecycle

• Trucking Industry experience

• Knowledge and understanding of integrations with 3rd parties using APIs.

• Product Management Training or Certification

Trimble’s Inclusiveness Commitment

We believe in celebrating our differences. That is why our diversity is our strength. To us, that means actively participating in opportunities to be inclusive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have guided our current success while also moving our desire to improve. We actively seek to add members to our community who represent our customers and the places we live and work.

We have programs in place to make sure our people are seen, heard, and welcomed and most importantly that they know they belong, no matter who they are or where they are coming from.

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Pay Equity

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Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Bonus Eligible?

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Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

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