Principal Product Manager at Motorola in Chicago, Illinois

Job Description:

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COMPANY OVERVIEW

At Motorola Solutions, we create technologies our customers refer to as their lifeline. Our technology platforms in communications, software, video and services help our customers work safely and more efficiently. Whether it s helping firefighters see through smoke, enabling police officers to see around street corners, or reliably keeping the lights on in homes and businesses around the world, our work supports those who put their lives on the line to keep us safe. Bring your passion, potential and talents to Motorola Solutions, and help us usher in a new era in public safety and security.

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team (CIE) is Motorola Solutions' organization of cloud subject matter experts specializing in the deployment, management, operations, compliance and security of our cloud-based solutions. CIE delivers expertise in cloud engineering and follows best-practices for developing, architecting and managing cloud-based environments and solutions. CIE manages cloud solutions at scale, with efficiencies delivered through common services, industry expertise, and centralized cost management and monitoring. In addition, CIE facilitates partnerships with cloud vendors and other technology partners, and streamlines our interactions with their infrastructure and services. As Motorola Solutions centralizes functions with CIE, we accelerate cloud development and deployments and optimize cloud operations, management & cost through scale and specialization with cloud-native services and processes.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Do you take pride in building secure, scalable and reliable solutions in the cloud? We are building the next generation of cloud based public safety and emergency applications at Motorola Solutions. And to succeed we need to create a set of cloud services and platforms that are appropriate for enabling these critical services for customers around the world.

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (CIE) team at Motorola Solutions is looking for a Product Manager who can own the strategy and roadmap for our infrastructure platform investments. You will be enabling our public safety and communications SaaS products to modernize and scale in the cloud and working on a diverse set of technical and business problems - like figuring out what geographies we need a presence in, to architect secure and lightning fast media storage systems. The critical nature of this infrastructure cannot be over-stressed.

This is a deeply technical role that requires knowledge and experience with public IaaS providers (Azure preferred), containerization technologies such as Kubernetes, cloud storage, and cloud networking. You will also need to have a keen sense of where the broader business is going to stay ahead of the curve. You ll be responsible for working with internal and external partners to chart the strategy, prioritize investments and work closely with engineering to deliver the goods. You ll have the autonomy to make build vs. buy decisions, work with partner teams to deliver solutions efficiently and present to executives to showcase the team's work. Bring your passion, potential and talents to Motorola Solutions, and help us usher in a new era in public safety and security.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The candidate will be responsible for

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Defining the vision, strategy and roadmap for core cloud infrastructure investments - e.g. compute, networking, storage and containerization.
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Understanding customer and partner requirements, creating functional specifications and working with engineering to architect and deliver the right solutions at the right time
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Product ideation, development and launch activities
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Working with sales and marketing to determine which sovereign regions and geographies we need to build a cloud presence in and when
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Working closely with internal and external partners to understand what we need to build and prioritize based on business needs
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Managing external cloud and software vendor relationships to align priorities and jointly plan roadmaps
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Be the face of the team with executives around the company to showcase the value prop and progress against our goals.

REQUIREMENTS:

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At least 5 years of Product Management or Engineering management experience
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10+ years overall industry experience in software, hardware or related engineering field
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3+ years of experience delivering cloud based products and services
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Experience and technical knowledge of IaaS (Azure or AWS), Networking, Kubernetes, and related cloud technologies
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Experience working with external partners and vendors to make build vs. buy decisions, negotiate pricing and manage long term relationships
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Experience in SaaS development and DevOps concepts
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Demonstrated ability to seek out opinions & build trust/buy-in across all functional teams.
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Excellent communication and people skills
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Bachelor's Degree required (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related degree)

BASIC REQUIREMENTS

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10+ years overall industry experience in software, hardware or related engineering field
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Bachelor's Degree required (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or other degree)

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

Under 10%

RELOCATION PROVIDED

None

POSITION TYPE

Experienced

REFERRAL PAYMENT PLAN

Yes

EEO STATEMENT

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or, any other protected characteristic.

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