Product Manager, Mobile Solutions
Cradlepoint

Job Info

---

Overview

This is a remote opportunity

Cradlepoint was born in Boise and built for wireless. We are a team of authentic, hard-working, and innovative people driven by a shared vision toConnect Beyond the limits of wired networks. We help customers - big and small, across industries and around the world - utilize LTE and 5G cellular technology to connect people, places, and things, anywhere.We're at the forefront of the Wireless WAN and 5G - the next big waves in networking - and we remain as hungry and humble as the day we started. If you're hungry to be part of something big, come join us.
Responsibilities

How Will You Contribute to the Company?

The Cradlepoint team is seeking a creative, strong entrepreneurial business leader to lead product management activities for our industry-leading cloud-managed wireless WAN vehicle networking business. In this role, you will be driving a wide number of strategic initiatives including but not limited to: (a) evolving a winning product line strategy, (b) building sustainable hardware and software differentiation, (c) defining and building the next generation 5G platforms for vehicles, and (d) ideating and executing on a strategy to develop adjacent product lines to create the next big disruption.

You will work within a fun culture with a strong engineering team on the development of a wide set of features and collaborate with various teams from all over the company. You will work closely with the entire Product Management team to understand and deliver on the strategic big picture, while inherently and independently being detail-oriented, organized and driven enough to identify and produce the pieces required to put that picture together. Headquartered in Boise, ID, Cradlepoint is the global leader in software-defined and cloud-delivered network solutions for connecting people, places, and things over wired and wireless broadband. More than 15,000 enterprise and government organizations around the world rely on Cradlepoint 5G/4G LTE-enabled network solutions to keep critical sites, workforces, vehicles, and devices always connected and protected.

What Will You Do?

• Research: Utilize our vast metrics and customer-focused data sets alongside your own research to continually find the next big growth opportunity, explore the latest networking trends and features and propose ideas on how we can bring them back to our service
• Lead the strategy and roadmap needed to ensure the highest level of satisfaction for our products
• Build solid partnerships with key stakeholder groups to evangelize, influence, and execute the strategy and vision
• Responsible for identifying the market size, preparation of business plans, and pricing recommendations for the defined product and service portfolio
• Responsible for populating the overall roadmap for the product line, ensuring a continual stream of new and innovative ideas are consistently brought to market
• Own the performance of products in-market and will be responsible for ensuring that products achieve financial objectives
• Analyze financial performance and recommend tactics to change the trajectory of the business
• Manage all life cycle migration strategies and the end-of-life decision for existing products and services
• Lead development of product plans (including target segment and value proposition) and business cases for assigned products and services
• Facilitate requirements definition across teams to decompose and document releases, epics, and functional requirements to developer-ready user stories and acceptance criteria. Convey customer and product requirements in the form of architectures, solutions and proofs-of-concept ("PoC(s)"), iterating on a rapid basis with UX, product, engineering, IT and business stakeholders

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in product management preferred
• 2+ years working in or with the transportation and mobility industry (transit, rail, public safety, transport)
• Experience with networking, troubleshooting, IT security, SaaS, or Cloud Platforms
• Understands and speaks the language of networking (TCP/IP, Wi-Fi, Latency, DHCP, DNS, etc.)
• Understand adjacent transportation technologies such as:
  • Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL), GIS, and Data Visualization
  • OBDII, J1939, CANbus
  • SAE, Rail, and Aviation standards
  • C-V2X and C-ITS
• Strong customer focus and a well-honed sense of empathy for regional and cultural considerations towards building a global experience
• Curiosity that drives you to see what others don't
• Strong written and verbal skills to communicate with technical partners, peers, and executive management alike clearly and effectively
• Demonstrate strong experience with data-informed decision making; know how and when to leverage qualitative and quantitative experimentation, and adept at analyzing results from these experiments
• Ability to write clear and thorough specifications and user stories
• A positive, can-do mindset and team focus
• Bachelor's degree in various fields of study are applicable. Computer Science, Engineering, marketing, project management or equivalent experience
• Location: Boise, ID, Los Gatos, CA preferred
• Remote possible (if remote be in a location with a direct flight to Boise)
• Travel: Up to 20%
• Additional 20%, if not located in Boise

Note: Did you know that women and other marginalized groups often hold back on applying to jobs if they don't meet 100% of all listed requirements? We don't want you to hold back! If you don't check every single box above but still feel like you could successfully do the work, we encourage you to apply! We'd love to connect and see how you could add to our team.

Why Cradlepoint?

At Cradlepoint, we're one team - all in on inclusion. Celebrating the uniqueness of our individual team members across the globe helps us build diverse teams where we all can thrive. Our connected, community-focused culture enables each one of us to perform at our best and fully be ourselves.

Our Cradlepoint values drive everything we do:

• Stay humble and hungry: Be a curious learner, resilient, and competitive.
• Don't point a finger; lend a hand: We are one team! Communicate, provide support, and lift others.
• Make a difference: Prioritize, innovate, differentiate, and think big for customer success. Make a difference in work and in our communities.
• Keep it simple: Eliminate complexity. Reduce time to value.
• Enjoy the ride: Celebrate - appreciate - grow.
• Trust, Respect, and transparency: Be ethical, data-driven, respectful, and straight shooters who share openly.

We are creating the future of global connectivity & community. Come join us. You belong here.

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive salary with a focus on a global market; Annual and Incremental Incentive plans; employee retirement plans (where available)
• Flexible Time Off with Global Holiday Schedules to promote work-life balance
• Wellness initiatives focused on the health and mental well-being of our team members and their families, including free membership to Headspace (a mindfulness and well-being app), an International Employee Assistance Program, and dedicated quarterly Well-being Days and No Internal Meeting Fridays.
• Ongoing training and development opportunities
• Eligible to participate in customary health and other benefit plans and programs based on location
• Work from home opportunities across our global locations with a culture rooted in inclusion and teamwork

#LI-BK1

#LI-Remote

Cradlepoint's Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging mission is to create an inclusive work environment where all employees' differences are celebrated, their thoughts matter, and everyone feels safe to bring their authentic selves to work. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and aim to attract, develop, and engage top talent from a diverse candidate pool. It is our policy and commitment to provide equal opportunity employment for all persons and not discriminate in employment decisions by placing the most qualified person in each job, without regard to any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

This job has expired.