Your Title: Grading Machine Integration Team Product Manager

　　Job Location: Christchurch, NZ

　　Reporting to:Grade Control Application Sr Product Manager

　　Our Department: CTCT

　　Does helping transform the earthmoving industry through the use of cutting-edge technologies excite you?

　　What You Will Do

　　The Grading Machine Integration Team Product Manager will be responsible for the overall success of the grading portfolio within CTCT, including products for Dozer, Grader, Scraper, and other grading machine types. This role is accountable to internal stakeholders and external customers for the aftermarket, Cat product groups, and non-Cat OEMs to develop, maintain, support, and innovate high-quality products that will be commercially successful throughout their entire product lifecycle. You will work directly with the Technical and Design leads as an empowered machine integration team to execute a roadmap of initiatives and objectives that enable the machine integration team to solve vetted customer problems across a continuum of customer market segments; including Local, Site, and Advanced contractors. You will also be responsible for ensuring alignment with the CTCT commercial, product, and platform objectives.

　　The machine integration team releases products as grade control applications that will be built leveraging building blocks provided by the grade control platform teams including hardware solutions, positioning, commissioning, and control, and grade control platform software services. The machine integration team owns and is truly accountable for multi-tiered products segregated by machine types that are radically easy to use and provide customer value by solving valuable problems and creating positive business impact and ROI.

　　Along with the Technical and Design Leads, you will work in tight collaboration with Portfolio and Customer Segment teams to vet customer value opportunities and confirm the solutions in the delivered product will, and do, deliver value, and effectiveness; build the right things and mitigating product waste. They will exercise excellent interpersonal skills to work within ambiguous situations, helping transform customer needs into product strategy, requirements, and direction aligned with organizational objectives.

　　In this position you are responsible for communicating tri-lingually; the money stories to senior staff, the context to the makers, and the sellable stories to portfolio managers for marketing and sales.

　　Customer Value and Business Viability Product RisksProducts built on our platform delight customers through the value they deliver throughout the full lifecycle of the product from introduction to end of life. Customers buy the product and choose to use it (Value risk)The products built on our platform enable the success of CTCT as a business. The solutions in the product work for our business (Business viability risk)Decisions about what to do are made by balancing Product, Usability, and Engineering Feasibility risks in collaboration with Design and Technical LeadsSkilled with various data tools and is the company-acknowledged expert on their product's target users/customers and how their product is used and actually works.Own and manage the Roadmap for the Product team:Products are delivered with everything required for:a dealer or factory to sell, ship, install, commission, and support theman end user (operator, data services manager, technician, etc.) to use themdeep machine integrationtiered functionalitya parent team (when applicable) to extend the productThe decision to ship the products is owned and made by the Product Manager, Design Lead, and Technical lead. Quality issues are owned until resolutionCTCT Agile and Risk frameworks and toolsets are applied to product development and lifecycle managementCurrent industry trends, and competitive and market insights inform product strategyTravel (including international) is expected to be less than 25%.Deliver stakeholder needs:Product vision, strategy, and lifecycle status is communicated to stakeholders, both internally and externallyProduct Team Objectives and key results are aligned to the organizational objectives and strategy radiated via a dashboard to track and measure successMetrics are used to measure and understand the impact of changes made to the productProduct quality is maintained at the expected level for the lifecycle of the productCustomer problems are vetted and justify why the solution being implemented is the right solution, build the right thing, build the thing right.Get work done:Discovery; market research, including customer site visits where appropriate with the design and technical leads, informs the product roadmap and Product lifecycle managementProduct development follows the iterative design thinking, learning cycle approach maintaining the teams' agility to plan and adapt as they learn The Product Manager is an available resource for the team to answer questions, clarify goals , enabling and empowering the team to own the details.Serve the organisation:Change is effected through influence and inspiration in the servant leader, growth mindset.Collaboration with other Product Leads, Product Managers, Software Project Managers, Verification and Validation, Design and Technical Leads, to resolve blockers and deliver the needs of the team: context, problem statements, user stories, etcAdditional tasks are performed as required from time to time.Continuous improvement and development of Product Management and people skillsCultivate a fun, creative, and motivated culture that lives and breathes our CTCT values.What Skills & Competencies You Should BringProblem discovery and solution framingAbility to say no to stakeholdersCustomer-centric attitudeForming teams and adapting to new ways of workingWorkshop facilitation drawing out all the voices by facilitating the right activities to get to the right informationPrioritization & Decisive Strategic mindsetAttuned to the needs of the internal and external customerAbility to think like the end userCollaborative working styleInfluence without authorityAbility to respond to inspection with positive intent.What Knowledge & Experience You Should Bring3+ years experience in a software Product Management or Ownership roleInclusive attitude and experience working closely with design and engineering teamsProven experience leading teams shipping digital productsExperience with cloud and/or SaaS productsExperience with a global product and teamsExperience translating big strategic priorities into roadmap itemsManaging multiple stakeholdersUnderstanding customer needs and collaborating to find and propose the right solutions to meet those needsProviding coaching and trainingAgile design and software development practices, techniques, and methodsProduct Management knowledge from Strategy to ExecutionExperience in or with relevant industries (civil construction, resources, communications, tech).About Your Location

　　Based at Trimble's NZ headquarters in Christchurch, enjoy free parking, an onsite gym, an active social club, and a great team environment where people love working with leading technology solutions.

　　At Trimble, you'll find the inspiration and opportunity to be yourself and thrive. The global community of Team Trimble, including more than 400 people in New Zealand, is passionate about bringing new ideas and innovations to life and building a better, more sustainable future.

　　Please Note: Only applicants who are legally entitled to work in New Zealand will be considered.

　　About CTCT

　　Our division develops machine control products that use site design information combined with positioning technology to semi-automatically control machines. These products are used in a range of applications to enable a machine operator to perform their work safely, accurately, efficiently, sustainably, and effectively through the use of sophisticated yet intuitive user-centric technology.

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