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Senior Product Manager

Motorola Solutions · Schaumburg, IL

Posted Aug 18, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 20, 2026

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Likely interview questions for this role

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Behavioral

Walk me through a product you owned end to end, from the first market or customer signal through launch. What was your role versus engineering's or marketing's?

whether the candidate has actually run the full product lifecycle or just touched pieces of it

Tell me about the Device services or a similar product portfolio you've managed. How did you decide what belonged in the roadmap and what got cut?

experience with real prioritization tradeoffs under limited engineering capacity

Describe a release you managed that had cross-team dependencies, maybe support, sales enablement, and engineering all needing to land at the same time. What went wrong and how did you handle it?

real experience coordinating multi-team release logistics, not just writing requirements

Give me an example where engineering, marketing, and sales disagreed on what a product should do next. How did you resolve it and get everyone moving in one direction?

cross-functional leadership without direct authority over the disagreeing parties

Technical

Tell me about a time you had to define acceptance criteria, KPIs, or SLAs for a feature. How did you know you'd picked the right measures?

rigor in translating vague requirements into measurable, testable commitments

How do you gather and weigh voice-of-customer input against internal ideas from sales or field teams when deciding what becomes a feature?

a repeatable process for filtering noisy input into a defensible roadmap decision

Tell me about a business case or proposal you built for a new product initiative. What financial goals did you set and how did you justify them?

comfort with the financial and business-case side of the PM role, not just the product side

How have you supported go-to-market activities, like sales training or building demo environments, for a technical product like a device services offering?

willingness to get into the tactical, hands-on GTM work and not just stay in strategy mode

What's your approach to evaluating competitive intelligence for a portfolio like this, and can you give an example of a competitive move that changed your roadmap?

whether competitive analysis actually influences decisions or is just a reporting exercise

Situational

How would you build out a strategy and roadmap for a device services portfolio you're inheriting, where you don't yet know the customer base or the competitive landscape?

a structured approach to market analysis and vision-setting rather than jumping straight to features

Say sales is pushing hard for a custom feature for one large public-safety customer, and engineering says it will delay the next release for everyone else. What do you do?

how they balance strategic roadmap integrity against short-term revenue pressure

You're two weeks from a planned release and a critical dependency owned by a third-party supplier slips. Walk me through how you'd manage that risk with your stakeholders.

ability to manage third-party or partner risk and communicate scope or schedule changes without losing trust

This role touches public safety and mission-critical communications. How would you think differently about reliability, KSPs, or launch readiness compared to a consumer product you might have worked on before?

understanding of the higher stakes and quality bar required in Motorola's public-safety context

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Company Overview At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future. Department Overview The ASTRO Application Services Product Management team has end-to-end ownership of the product definition, planning, delivery and sunset of the entire product portfolio. The product managers work with cross-functional teams including engineering, design, architecture, marketing and sales for the definition and on time delivery of the product. The team is responsible for the overall product requirements, value proposition, KSPs, metrics, business case and market launch of the product. Job Description The product manager will be responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for Motorola's Device services portfolio including interfacing with engineering, architecture, design, marketing, sales and finance. The product manager analyzes market and competitive conditions and lays out a product vision that is differentiated and delivers unique value based on customer demands. The role of the product manager spans many activities from strategic to tactical and provides cross-functional leadership — bridging gaps within the company between different functions, especially between development, sales and marketing, and support. The product manager is the person responsible for defining the ‘why’, ‘what,’ ‘where’, and ‘when’ of the product that the development team will build. They are the owner of their product -- which means they lead cross-functional teams from a product's conception through to its launch. Product management responsibilities include: Product Strategy The product manager is responsible for setting a product vision and strategy. Their job is to clearly articulate the business value to the product team so they understand the intent behind the new product or product release. They own the strategy behind the product along with its roadmap and must work with development to define, prioritize and build what matters. • Create and manage the product portfolio, roadmap, vision and backlog • Identify customer needs and market requirements • Evaluate competitive intelligence • Define financial goals • Create business plans and proposals for new initiatives • Strategic partner and third party supplier management Product Releases Product managers must plan for what their teams will deliver and when they will deliver it. The product manager owns the SW release aspects of the product or service. Release responsibilities include managing features and dependencies in and across releases, product and support teams; and managing releases with phases and milestones. • Establish vision and goals for releases • Define market offer and structure • Work with enablement organizations to make products orderable and deliverable • Define and support implementation of training, support and deployment requirements • Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality • Coordinate overall release project and schedule • Product Visioning • Collecting, curating, and promoting the most relevant ideas into features. Defining which ideas should be promoted to features to achieve key objectives for the product line and business. Soliciting feedback and requests from customers and field teams and ensuring this is seamlessly integrated into the product planning and development processes. • Gather customer and sales feedback • Gather voice of customer input Feature Definition The product manager defines the features and requirements necessary to deliver a complete product to market and lead the product team to success. They are responsible for articulating the ‘why’ and ‘what’, working with go to market to determine the ‘where’, and working with development to determine the ‘when’. • Create user stories and scenarios • Direct and approve UI/UX activities • Define acceptance criteria, KPIs and SLAs Go-to-market Support Responsible for making product decisions and often is the lead resource for the rest of the organization when deep product expertise is required. This includes supporting the organizations that help bring the product to market and work directly with customers including marketing, sales, training and support services. • Facilitate sales and channel training • Assist pre-sales with custom project requests • Define and ensure implementation of GTM assets including demo environments, training materials, and presentations • Demonstrate new pre-release features Basic Requirements • Bachelor's Degree • 7+ years progressive, relevant technology experience in engineering or Product Planning/Product Marketing/Product Management • MBA or other graduate degree preferred but not required Travel Requirements None Relocation Provided None Position Type Experienced Referral Payment Plan Yes Our U.S. Benefits include: • Incentive Bonus Plans • Medical, Dental, Vision benefits • 401K with Company Match • 10 Paid Holidays • Generous Paid Time Off Packages • Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Paid Parental & Family Leave • and more! EEO Statement Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.  We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team. We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this  Reasonable Accommodations Form  so we can assist you.

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