Product Manager- Wireless

Position

• Identify new product and/or market opportunities using a variety of sources including existing customers, current and emerging competitors, industry and market analysts, and trade event
• Prepare and champion Business Case for new products, new releases, and customer change requests (enhancements to current product(s) derived directly from customer requests)
• Facilitate requirements gathering with customers through customer visits, user groups, partner meetings, cross-functional internal meetings, analysis of customer enhancement requests and other means
• Write Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) / Vision documents, and work with R&D to refine the requirements and establish specific functional and technical requirements for each release of the MLC
• Review detailed design documentation, intermediate and final builds with R&D and QA to ensure that the release stays in line with the Vision
• Responsible for communicating product and market strategy throughout the organization 
• Manage and maintain MLC product binder
• Make build, buy, and partnering recommendations where appropriate
• Responsible for MLC product usability and functionality
• Assume leadership role through management of the Product Development Process
• Establish and facilitate interdepartmental work efforts to assure delivery of complete product support upon roll out
• Monitor product development at predefined checkpoints to assure compliance with requirements, functional specifications and market strategy; report status to Senior Management team and recommends risk mitigation strategies
• Act as primary channel with Sales organization for product requests and new product release information
• Work with marketing to define and develop sales support and collateral materials
• Manage product life cycle and submit plans to Senior Management for life cycle-related development and retirement activities
• Provides Sales support through customer visits, conference calls and other activities as appropriate

Experience

• Provide Customer support through site visits and conference calls as appropriate to help ensure the customer is maximizing the value they are getting from their MLC solution
•  MSEE/MSCS. MBA is a plus
• 10+ years experience in Software Product Management - experience with multi-national wireless telecom software/product vendor would be an advantage
• Product engineering and/or product development background would be an advantage
• Strong technical understanding of markets, products and services in the wireless location ecosystem
• Technical understanding of existing location technologies (e.g. GPS) would be an advantage
• Good working knowledge of 3GPP standards in the radio and/or core network
• Previous participation in wireless standards would be an advantage
• Experience with mobile location systems and with provisioning systems, billing management systems related to all types of location based services
• Additional experience in Professional Services, Consulting, Project Management and/or Sales Engineering
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Excellent communicator; team building skills
• Strong problem solving skills; analytical/methodical approach to product delivery and readiness
• Self motivated, smart and quick to learn
• Strong business background
• Willing to travel. Likely 20-40%