Motive - Senior / Staff Product Manager - IoT Connected Devices

• 6+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time shipping IoT, telematics, tracking, or connected hardware products from concept through mass production — and sustaining them through post-launch iteration. • 6+ years of product management experience • Proven ownership of at least one full hardware NPI that reached material volume (ideally 100K+ units), including navigating EVT/DVT/PVT/MP gates, regulatory certifications, and supplier / contract-manufacturer relationships. We will ask you to name it. • Proven ownership of at least one full hardware NPI • Strong technical fluency in battery-powered connected systems — comfortable in conversations about MCUs and SoCs, power management and battery chemistry, multi-year battery life budgeting, RF and antenna design, GNSS, cellular (LTE-M, NB-IoT, 4G, 5G), Bluetooth Low Energy, environmental ratings (IP, shock/vibration, thermal), and firmware architecture. • Strong technical fluency in battery-powered connected systems • Direct experience owning firmware roadmaps, including OTA update strategy and staged rollouts, release trains, device provisioning and security, telemetry design, and observability for devices operating in harsh, bandwidth-constrained, power-constrained environments. • Direct experience owning firmware roadmaps • Demonstrated ownership of field reliability — you've been the PM when a deployed product was failing, and you can describe how you found the cause, what you changed, and what the number looked like afterward. • Demonstrated ownership of field reliability • Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives and influence roadmaps across engineering, operations, and GTM without direct authority. • Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives • Customer empathy paired with data fluency — you run discovery in the real world as comfortably as you pull device telemetry and field-performance data, and use both to prioritize. • Customer empathy paired with data fluency • Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to move fluently between executives, hardware and firmware engineers, cloud engineers, GTM teams, and customers without losing signal. • Excellent written and verbal communication • Trailblazer mindset — humble, kind, curious, and open to learning, with a strong bias to action and a willingness to commit and disagree productively. • Trailblazer mindset • 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. • Bachelor's degree • Experience launching cellular-connected, battery-powered tracking devices with multi-year battery life targets. • Background in telematics, fleet technology, construction technology, industrial IoT, cold chain, supply-chain visibility, or heavy equipment. • Experience running OTA firmware programs at scale — staged rollouts, fleet-health monitoring, rollback strategy, and fleet-level security response. • Experience with third-party or crowd-sourced location networks (BLE mesh, LPWAN networks, or similar) and the product decisions that come with depending on infrastructure you don't own. • Familiarity with automotive and off-highway protocols (CAN, OBD-II, J1939) and industrial data standards such as AEMP 2.0. • Experience working with global contract manufacturers and managing multi-region sourcing, logistics, and compliance. • What success looks like • New Equipment Monitoring device programs are scoped clearly, sequenced well, and launched on time with strong cross-functional alignment. • The firmware roadmap is tied tightly to customer value, hardware constraints, and measurable business outcomes. • Device reliability, battery life, connectivity performance, and install experience improve measurably generation over generation — and we can prove it with field data. • Motive brings new hardware capabilities to market faster and with better operational readiness across Sales, Support, Install, and Success. • The Equipment Monitoring line benefits from dedicated device product leadership — resulting in better products, lower total cost of ownership for customers, and stronger commercial results.