Product Manager

Motivo is looking for a passionate Product Manager with a strong technical background who enjoys being part of a tight-knit team and is looking to make an immediate impact. We work on cool, clean sheet design projects in a fast-paced, innovative environment. Current projects include automotive, wearable electronics, robotics, aerospace, and clean energy, and we complete projects in weeks or months, not years. We are passionate about our work and strive for excellence within each project's unique constraints.

To be successful in this role you’d need to be comfortable owning your projects from beginning to end. This means developing new customers, maintaining existing ones, contracting and budgeting, and guiding the technical team to the best solution. We need someone who’s driven, detail-oriented, adaptable, and who can create buy-in. You’ll need to be the voice of the customer to our technical team and vice-versa.

Requirements

Capabilities and Skills:

• Experience and understanding of hardware product development, and integration of major engineering components into a cohesive product. i.e Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, software development, Industrial design
• Ability to apply agile methodologies to both software and hardware development

• Knowledge/Experience in embedded hardware/controls development a huge plus
• Experience with embedded hardware/controls development a huge plus
• Strong communication skills to clearly convey project needs and technical concepts to internal and external teams
• Experience with proposal preparation and contract negotiation
• Effective at managing technical risk, schedule, cost, and product performance balance
• Experience with system-level rapid prototyping techniques and materials
• Ability to thrive in the face of ambiguity - most of our projects have scope gaps
• Identify prototype manufacturing vendors, and assist in vendor management
• Strong ability to handle concurrent fast-paced projects with minimal direction
• Experience with tightly integrated multidisciplinary teams in employer or academic setting (Solar Car, Formula SAE etc)

Required Attributes:

• Minimum 2 years of engineering experience and 5 years of project management or product management experience
• Ability to plan, manage and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering efforts
• Past experience in a startup/small business environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as interpersonal skills
• Manage teams in a fast-paced/time-critical development environment
• Business Development/Sales and Marketing
• US Citizenship or Permanent Resident
• Ability to travel as required (less than 25% - usually much less)

Benefits

• We’re convinced that the team and projects are hands down the best part of working at Motivo, but we also have some pretty sweet benefits including company-wide profit sharing, high-quality insurance plans, 401k match, generous paid vacation time, an onsite massage therapist, a Monday-Thursday 4/10 work week and more!
• Base Salary Range: $100,000 - $150,000
• Annual Profit Sharing estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
• Salary is dependent on experience, knowledge, and interview performance.