Product Manager - Geographic Information System; GIS

Overview

Motorola Solutions is a global company focused on people and safer communities. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling coordinated operations for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses.

The Command Center software team focuses on building public safety solutions that combine the capabilities of the entire software suite into a single, user-centric workflow, enabling public safety agencies to efficiently manage data across their operations.

This Search product manager will be responsible for the strategy, roadmap and feature definition for a portion of MSI s CAD/Mobile/Records portfolio, providing critical services for multiple teams.

The product manager uses their technical knowledge and background, and analyzes market and competitive conditions to lay out a product roadmap that is differentiated and delivers unique value based on customer demands. The role spans strategic to tactical activities and provides cross-functional leadership—bridging gaps within the company between development, sales and marketing, and support. The ability to understand the technical architecture and engineering behind features and translate high level customer requirements into technical needs for development is crucial.

The ability to describe the impact of technical requirements to customers and non-technical sales and support resources is essential.

The product manager is responsible for defining the  why ,  what,  and  when  of the product that the development team will build. They are the director of their product, leading cross-functional teams from conception through launch.

Product management responsibilities include:

• Create and manage backlog, roadmap, and vision

• Identify customer needs and market requirements

• Evaluate competitive intelligence

• Define financial goals

• Create business plans and proposals for new initiatives

• Strategic partner and third party supplier management

Product managers plan what their teams will deliver and when. They own the release aspect of the product, including managing features and dependencies across releases, product and support teams, and releases with phases and milestones.

• Establish vision and goals for sprints and releases

• Define market offer and structure

• Work with enablement organizations to make products orderable and deliverable

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

• Manage risks and resolve issues affecting release scope, schedule and quality

• Coordinate overall release project and schedule

Collect, curate, and promote the most relevant ideas into features. Define which ideas should be promoted to features to achieve key objectives for the product line and business. Solicit feedback from customers and field teams and integrate this into planning and development processes.

• Gather customer and sales feedback and voice of customer

The product manager defines the features and requirements necessary to deliver a complete product to market and leads the product team to success. They articulate the  what  and work with development to determine the  when.

• Create user stories and scenarios

• Direct and approve UI/UX activities

• Define acceptance criteria, KPIs and SLAs

Responsible for making product decisions and often the lead resource for the rest of the organization when deep product expertise is required. This includes supporting the organizations that help bring the product to market and working directly with customers including marketing, sales, training and support services.

• Facilitate sales and channel training

• Assist pre-sales with custom project requests

• Define and ensure implementation of GTM assets including demo environments, training materials, and presentations

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field

• 5+ years of experience in Product Management in a high-tech environment

• Understanding of Product Management principles

• Agile/Scrum experience

• GIS…