Position Description: 

 

A key role of product management at LXE is to translate business and market needs into technical requirements. As a team member on new product development projects, the Product Manager will represent our customers’ needs while contributing to product design and implementation decisions. This role requires a keen understanding of technology and the development process.  Excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills are keys to success in this position. A critical role of the Product Manager is developing and negotiating business relationships with partner companies. 

 

Key Responsibilities:

Ø      Manage the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to ready-for-sale to end-of-life

Ø      Introduce and push for differentiating innovation in your products

Ø      Drive go/no-go decisions for product ideas, incorporating both technical and business factors

Ø      Define business cases and specify prioritized market requirements for derivative and future products

Ø      Analyze product cost and pricing strategies and manage the price list

Ø      Work with product development to define the user experience

Ø      Be the keeper of the product culture and brand

Ø      Support product marketing in the definition of product positioning, competitive assessment, target customers, and the identification of key features and benefits

Ø      Collaborate with product marketing to generate marketing collateral and sales tools

Ø      Passionately serve as the internal and external evangelist for your product, occasionally supporting sales in advancing sales opportunities.

Ø      Train marketing and Sales personnel on the product

Key Attributes:

Ø      Innovative technology interest and research

Ø      Excellent written, listening and teaching skills

Ø      Passionate and focused on delivering intuitive product experiences

Ø      Action oriented and results driven

Ø      Able to handle several projects simultaneously and meet deadlines

Ø      Extremely effective working independently and in cross-functional teams

Ø      Adept at assimilating customer needs and problems to drive market requirements

 

Technology Experience:

 

Ø      Mobile computer technology such as Mobile Pentium, Xscale processors, Windows CE, Windows Mobile or Linux Operating Systems. 

Ø      Wireless technologies including 802.11a/b/g/n client radios and security standards.  WWAN and GPS technologies and any carrier approvals requirements. 

Ø      Batteries and mobile device power management, LCD displays and touch screens, plastics and magnesium tooling, keyboards design, application development programming tools and languages, terminal emulation software, VOIP and voice recognition, barcode scanning and imaging, industrial design and product ruggedization.

 

Product Experience:

Ø      PDA, Smartphone, UMPC, Tablets, Handheld (brick style), laptops, rugged vehicle, industrial process computers, and imbedded headless computers.

Ø      Military versions of these mobile computers. 

Ø      Emphasis on mobile and wireless products.

 

Career Experience:

Ø      Engineering product development or Business Development background.

 

Industry Experience:

Ø      Motorola, Intermec, Psion Teklogix, Panasonic, Datalogic, Dlog, JLT computers, Trimble, Roper, Getac, Intronix, Xplorer, DRS, Citadel

 

Market Experience:

Ø      Field service, route delivery, transportation trucking, port and intermodal, and warehouse logistics applications.