Staff Product Manager - Connected Devices

1 month ago
Full-time
Senior
IoT and Embedded Systems
Motive

Motive

Motive (ex KeepTruckin) provides AI dashcams, ELD compliance, GPS tracking, and fleet management solutions to over 120,000 businesses in the physical economy, enhancing safety, productivity, and profitability.

Road & Rail
1K-5K
Founded 2011
$567M raised

Description

  • Own the hardware and firmware roadmap for Equipment Monitoring devices, including gateways, beacons, sensors, and power accessories.
  • Drive new product introductions from problem definition and sourcing through EVT, DVT, PVT, certification, mass production, and post-launch stabilization.
  • Own installed-base performance metrics, including field failures, RMA rates, battery life, connectivity, positioning, and installation success.
  • Define and prioritize firmware capabilities such as power optimization, OTA updates, diagnostics, security, connectivity resilience, and observability.
  • Lead product decisions for device, mesh-network, OEM, and other technology partnerships.
  • Balance feature scope, BOM cost, power consumption, connectivity, manufacturability, ruggedness, quality, installation experience, and schedule.
  • Conduct customer and market discovery across industries and translate findings into product requirements.
  • Write PRDs and technical specifications and align Hardware, Firmware, Mechanical, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and TPM teams.
  • Partner with cloud and mobile teams on telemetry schemas, provisioning, OTA, and device-management interfaces.
  • Coordinate go-to-market readiness and represent Motive with vendors, manufacturers, carriers, certification bodies, and partners.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of product management experience, including shipping IoT, telematics, tracking, or connected hardware products through mass production and post-launch iteration.
  • Ownership of at least one full hardware NPI reaching material volume, ideally 100,000+ units, including EVT/DVT/PVT/MP gates, certifications, and supplier relationships.
  • Technical fluency in battery-powered connected systems, including MCUs/SoCs, power management, battery chemistry, RF, antennas, GNSS, cellular, BLE, environmental ratings, and firmware architecture.
  • Experience owning firmware roadmaps, OTA strategies, staged rollouts, release trains, provisioning, security, telemetry, and device observability.
  • Demonstrated experience improving reliability of deployed products using root-cause analysis and field-performance data.
  • Ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives and influence engineering, operations, and go-to-market teams without direct authority.
  • Strong customer empathy, data fluency, and written and verbal communication skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with cellular-connected, battery-powered tracking devices and multi-year battery-life targets is preferred.
  • Preferred experience includes telematics, industrial IoT, OTA programs at scale, BLE mesh or LPWAN networks, CAN/OBD-II/J1939, AEMP 2.0, and global contract manufacturing.

Benefits

  • $180,000–$248,000 USD compensation range in the United States.
  • Potential restricted stock units as part of total compensation.
  • Health, pharmacy, vision, and dental benefits.
  • Paid time off and sick time off.
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage and life insurance.
  • 401(k) contribution, subject to eligibility requirements.

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