Senior Principal Technical Product Manager

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Job description

You're a member of the Product Development organization with a primary role to collaboratively define and manage the roadmap backlog and iteratively deliver new / enhanced Products, maximizing value though realization of cross-BU synergies. You'll work across Business Units to understand the voice of the customer and related customer journeys, then represent both the voice and journey for the Product Development team, defining/refining features and driving prioritization of initiatives in the backlog. As a leading contributor, you're responsible for the delivery of outcomes, solutions and commitments on behalf of Product Development. You'll need to collaborate with Commercial Product Management, Regional Sales/Sales Support, Product Development & Design, Innovations, CX team, Systems Engineering/Architecture and other key stakeholders to develop and implement the Mobility Product roadmap, supporting new Product concepts, value proposition design, positioning and go-to-market strategies. It will be essential to build a deep understanding of the key needs and pain points for a range of Mobility customer segments, identify opportunities to deliver value and differentiation in the market and align Product developments to market value and Client's revenue objectives.

Are you up to the challenge?

• Develop, evolve and execute against Client's Product Roadmap across Mobility segments; drive initiative & feature definition and development, delivering value with each iteration, define acceptance and related test and validation criteria
• Work closely with Business Unit (external) Product Management, Sales/Sales Support, Channel Management, Marketing and other stakeholders to capture key needs and pain points for Mobility segments and translate into feature & capability requirements to address those defined needs and pain points
• Collaborate to drive the development and approval of business cases for new Product development initiatives within the agile Product Development framework
• Understand the competitive landscape, including competitor service offerings and E2E solution components, feature parity and systems design
• Collaborate on technology solution evaluations to support the development of new Products and enhancements jointly with our internal Innovations team and external technology development partners.
• Track industry trends and identify potential partnership opportunities and that will impact Mobility verticals
• Develop relationships with antenna and terminal and other related manufacturers that can bring new product and service capabilities into the Mobility portfolio.
• Support the development and management of key vendor relationships
• Assist Business Unit Product Management and Product Marketing (Go-to-Market) with the development of customer collateral and training material - support training on new Products as needed

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in technology, engineering or other technically oriented business focus
• At least 10-years of Product Development / Management experience, including Product lifecycle management, complex systems development and execution of Product plans and strategies
• A lean-agile mindset that prioritizes outcomes over outputs while aligning distributed teams toward the same.
• The ability to cross functionally derive a product / portfolio vision including defining the initiatives and experiments necessary to realize the same.
• Understanding of mobile communications technologies and concepts
• Understanding of technology and business with an established background in launching Products in partnership with stakeholders
• Technical proficiency, to successfully collaborate with Engineering, Architecture & Design teams on the development of new Product concepts
• Able to guide a team or teams in a complex development and business environment and enjoy being part of a team that thrives on delivering exceptional products that provide value to the customer and the organization
• Highly developed interpersonal skills, with the ability to maintain and influence internal and customer working relationships at all levels.
• High degree of organization, individual initiative, and personal accountability
• Strong decision making, problem solving, analytical and organizational skills
• Understanding of financial concepts to assist in business case development
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment
• Flexibility to work in a rapidly changing environment and lead a team through change
• Experience with tools like Jira, Miro board, Jama, etc.

It would be nice if you had:

• Experience in Land Mobility segments. e.g. road/rail, mining, construction, agriculture, connected cars.
• A background in project management, with a track record of optimizing product and service infrastructure
• Experience working in a global company
• Respected and built a reputation by demonstrating product expertise, representing your company as a speaker at industry conferences and publishing white papers

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