Product Manager

Your Title: Product Manager

Job Location: Princeton, NJ

Our Department: Transportation

What You Will Do

Product managers are responsible for orchestrating all organizational elements to achieve total product success as measured by revenue growth, market position, and profitability. Success in achieving the goals will be in collaborating with Sales/Business Development, Product Owners, Development, Marketing, and Finance. Ultimate success in the position will be determined by the individual's ability to intimately understand the product's environment, users, use cases, and customer influencers, articulate objectives that lead to success, and harness the wider Trimble to deliver solutions.

• Ultimately accountable for product success

• Subject Matter Expert of the User

• Thorough understanding of the Product(s)

• Advocate for the market and the user

• Create and communicate vision and roadmap to the stakeholders

• Business plans for projects/products

• Create, Measure, and Analyze product KPIs

• Define and communicate the value proposition

• Market Understanding

  • Coordinate and conduct VOC engagement(s)

  • Engage with the market to ensure products are in tune with market expectations.

  • Clearly define market problems and opportunities. Prioritize opportunities.

  • Understand and document the value proposition provided by our products

  • Ensure Product Positioning is clearly defined

  • Conduct and present Win/Loss Analysis

  • Gather and present distinctive competencies

• Strategy and Vision

  • Coordinate with the business leaders to formulate product vision and strategy.

  • OKRs: Define clear objectives and key results along with expected timelines.

  • Work with Sales and Business leaders to set revenue targets

  • Work with Sales, Finance, Marketing, and Support to define go-to-market strategy

  • Manage product lifecycle from ideation through end-of-life timing and process

• Roadmap and Communication

  • Prioritize the market opportunities along with business case development

  • Align roadmap with leadership and Long Range Plan

  • Create the Project Charters for each

• Coordinate roadmaps & interdependencies with other Product Managers

• Stakeholder for Product Execution

  • Align the roadmap with the Project team(s)

  • Coordinate with Product Owners to ensure the release plan is aligned with the roadmap.

  • Consult with product owners and engineering managers to ensure the solutions meet the market/user needs.

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring

• Minimum two years of product management or equivalent experience

• Understanding of agile development methodologies

• Working experience in software development life cycles.

  • Experience with Aha! & Jira is a plus

  • Transportation vertical experience is a plus

• Project management and leadership expertise for aligning and executing with cross-functional teams:

  • Day-to-day tactical work with Product Owners, Development, and QA teams

  • Coordinating long-term roadmap for assigned products and solutions

• Experience conducting user experience research to validate solution or design hypotheses

• Clear and concise communication, both written, illustrative, and verbal.

• Strong teamwork, collaboration, and partnership attitude

About Our Transportation Division

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.

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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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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