Optical Hardware Product Manager

Optical Hardware Product Manager

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.

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.

Responsibilities include :

• 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

Skills and experience you should bring include :

Compensation : 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.

Hiring Range : $105,682.00$142,676.00

Pay Rate Type : Salary

Bonus Eligible? Yes

Commission Eligible? No

Benefits : 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. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.