Staff Product Manager – Connected Devices

🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $248k / year

⏰ Full Time

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✅ Product Manager

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Motive

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1001 - 5000 employees

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

🍽️ Food & Beverage

Logistics • Construction • Food & Beverage

Motive is a company that provides an integrated operations platform designed to enhance the safety, productivity, and profitability of fleet management and operations. Utilizing cutting-edge AI technology, Motive offers solutions such as driver safety monitoring, fleet management, equipment monitoring, and spend management. These services provide unparalleled visibility into vehicles and equipment, automate workflows, reduce costs, and improve efficiency for industries like construction, oil & gas, public sector, food & beverage, and logistics. Motive is recognized as a leader in fleet management and empowers companies to maximize their operational potential with innovative solutions.

📋 Description

• Own the hardware and firmware roadmap for Equipment Monitoring in-field devices • Drive new product introduction execution from problem definition and sourcing through EVT, DVT, PVT, certification, mass-production ramp, and post-launch stabilization • Own installed-base metrics including field failure and RMA rates, field battery life, connectivity and positioning performance, and installation success • Define and prioritize firmware features for power optimization, connectivity resilience, positioning accuracy, sensor fusion, OTA reliability, diagnostics, security, and fleet observability • Lead the product side of device partnerships involving partner and mesh networks • Make trade-offs across feature set, BOM cost, power budget, connectivity, antenna performance, manufacturability, ruggedness, installation experience, quality, and schedule • Translate customer and market signals into product requirements through discovery and cross-functional input • Write PRDs and technical specifications and align Hardware, Firmware, Mechanical, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and TPM through product gates • Partner with cloud and mobile product teams on telemetry schemas, provisioning, OTA, and device management • Drive go-to-market readiness with Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Support, Install, and Operations • Represent Motive's hardware perspective with vendors, manufacturers, carriers, test labs, certification bodies, and network/OEM partners • Report to the VP of Connected Devices and partner with the Equipment Monitoring product team

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of product management experience • Meaningful experience shipping IoT, telematics, tracking, or connected hardware products from concept through mass production and sustaining them post-launch • Proven ownership of at least one full hardware NPI reaching material volume, ideally 100K+ units • Experience navigating EVT/DVT/PVT/MP gates, regulatory certifications, and supplier/contract-manufacturer relationships • Technical fluency in battery-powered connected systems, including MCUs and SoCs, power management, battery chemistry, RF and antenna design, GNSS, cellular, BLE, environmental ratings, and firmware architecture • Direct experience owning firmware roadmaps, OTA update strategy, staged rollouts, release trains, device provisioning and security, telemetry design, and device observability • Demonstrated ownership of field reliability • Ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives and influence roadmaps without direct authority • Customer empathy paired with data fluency • Excellent written and verbal communication • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Embedded Systems, Computer Science, Industrial Design, or a related technical field — or equivalent practical experience • Applicant must be authorized to receive and access commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations

🏖️ Benefits

• Health benefits • Pharmacy benefits • Optical benefits • Dental care benefits • Paid time off • Sick time off • Short-term disability coverage • Long-term disability coverage • Life insurance • 401(k) contribution • Restricted stock units may be included in total compensation for certain roles