Senior / Staff Product Manager - IoT Connected Devices

Motive

3d•$180,000 - $248,000

About The Position

Motive is hiring a Senior / Staff Product Manager to lead the in-field device surface of its Equipment Monitoring product line. The role owns hardware and firmware roadmaps for connected devices, including asset gateways, beacons, environmental and door sensors, power accessories, and future device form factors. It also leads new product introductions from concept through mass production, sustains deployed devices, and directs the product and technical aspects of device partnerships that extend asset visibility. The product manager owns device performance and reliability through the point at which data leaves the device; the Equipment Monitoring product team owns cloud, workflow, and customer-facing experiences beyond that point. The role works as a peer to Electrical Engineering, Embedded/Firmware, Mechanical, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and TPM, and collaborates with cloud and mobile teams. Web and mobile software are not the primary scope. The position reports to the VP of Connected Devices. The successful candidate will be technically fluent, comfortable navigating hardware development and ambiguity, and able to move among device roadmaps, certification plans, firmware releases, customer discovery, and field-performance analysis.

Requirements

At least 6 years of product management experience, including meaningful experience shipping IoT, telematics, tracking, or connected hardware products from concept through mass production and sustaining them after launch.
Proven ownership of at least one full hardware NPI that reached material volume, ideally 100,000 or more units, including EVT/DVT/PVT/MP gates, regulatory certifications, and supplier or contract-manufacturer relationships.
Strong technical fluency in battery-powered connected systems, including MCUs and SoCs, power management, battery chemistry and life budgeting, RF and antenna design, GNSS, cellular technologies, Bluetooth Low Energy, environmental ratings, and firmware architecture.
Direct experience owning firmware roadmaps, including OTA update strategy and staged rollouts, release trains, device provisioning and security, telemetry design, and observability in constrained operating environments.
Demonstrated ownership of field reliability issues, including identifying causes, making changes, and measuring outcomes.
Ability to lead ambiguous cross-functional initiatives and influence engineering, operations, and go-to-market roadmaps without direct authority.
Customer empathy and data fluency, including real-world discovery and use of device telemetry and field-performance data to prioritize work.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills across executive, engineering, go-to-market, and customer audiences.
Humble, kind, curious, and open to learning, with a strong bias to action and willingness to commit and disagree productively.
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.

Nice To Haves

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, including staged rollouts, fleet-health monitoring, rollback strategy, and fleet-level security response.
Experience with third-party or crowdsourced location networks, such as BLE mesh or LPWAN networks, and product decisions involving infrastructure the company does not own.
Familiarity with automotive and off-highway protocols such as CAN, OBD-II, and J1939, and industrial data standards such as AEMP 2.0.
Experience working with global contract manufacturers and managing multi-region sourcing, logistics, and compliance.

Responsibilities

Own the hardware and firmware roadmap for Equipment Monitoring in-field devices, including asset gateways, beacons, environmental and door sensors, power accessories, and future device form factors.
Drive new product introduction execution from problem definition and sourcing through EVT, DVT, PVT, certification, mass-production ramp, and post-launch stabilization.
Own installed-base performance, including field failure and RMA rates, battery life, connectivity and positioning performance, and installation success.
Define and prioritize firmware features such as power optimization, connectivity resilience, positioning accuracy, sensor fusion, OTA reliability and staged rollout, diagnostics, security, and fleet-level observability.
Lead product and technical decisions for device partnership programs, while Business Development and Supply Chain own commercial terms.
Make and communicate trade-offs involving features, BOM cost, power, connectivity, antenna performance, manufacturability, ruggedness, installation, quality, and schedule.
Translate customer and market signals into requirements through discovery across relevant industries and synthesis of input from Sales, Support, Install, and Customer Success.
Write PRDs and technical specifications and keep Hardware, Firmware, Mechanical, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and TPM aligned through development gates.
Partner with cloud and mobile product teams to evolve firmware contracts, including telemetry schemas, provisioning, OTA, and device management.
Drive go-to-market readiness with Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Support, Install, and Operations for new product introductions and major firmware releases.
Represent Motive's hardware perspective with silicon vendors, ODMs, contract manufacturers, carriers, test labs, certification bodies, network partners, and OEM partners.