Senior Product Manager
Posted Sep 15, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Walk me through a hardware or software product you owned from concept through launch. What was the problem you were solving and how did you know it was worth solving?
What they are checking: whether the candidate has actually run a full product lifecycle, not just contributed to pieces of one
Tell me about a time you had to build a business case or financial goal for a new product initiative. How did you arrive at the numbers and who pushed back?
What they are checking: comfort with the strategic and financial side of product management, not just feature work
Tell me about a time you had to convince a cross-functional team, maybe engineering or finance, to prioritize something they didn't think was important. How did that go?
What they are checking: influence without authority, since this role has no direct reports over the departments it depends on
Tell me about a product or feature you had to sunset or kill. How did you make that call and how did you communicate it internally and externally?
What they are checking: willingness to make unpopular calls and manage the fallout, not just launch new things
Tell me about a time you disagreed with engineering or senior management about product direction. What did you do?
What they are checking: how they handle conflict with people they can't simply outrank or overrule
What would you do
Say you are three weeks from a MOTOTRBO hardware release and a supplier tells you a key component is delayed by two months. What do you do?
What they are checking: how they manage hardware-specific release risk and cross-functional fallout when supply chain is involved
A regional sales director insists a specific customer's custom request needs to be built into the core roadmap, but your data says it's a one-off. How do you handle that conversation?
What they are checking: whether they can hold a strategic line under commercial pressure without damaging the sales relationship
How would you run a demo of a pre-release feature for a skeptical enterprise customer who's had reliability issues with your devices in the past?
What they are checking: customer-facing judgment and ability to represent the product honestly under pressure
This role is about 10 to 25 percent travel and is the main link to North America sales and customers. How do you decide when a customer conversation needs you in the room versus a call or a written brief?
What they are checking: judgment about time allocation and prioritizing customer-facing work against internal roadmap responsibilities
About the work
How would you go about gathering voice of customer input from North America sales and field teams, and how do you decide which of that feedback actually becomes a feature versus gets shelved?
What they are checking: a real process for triaging noisy, high-volume field feedback into a defensible roadmap
What do you know about how two-way radio systems like MOTOTRBO fit into a customer's broader critical communications environment, things like Radio Manager or CPS?
What they are checking: actual domain familiarity versus generic product management knowledge
Describe how you'd write acceptance criteria and KPIs for a new device feature aimed at, say, a hospital or logistics customer.
What they are checking: whether they can translate a vague customer need into something engineering can actually build and measure
You're managing a release with dependencies across hardware, software, and enablement teams like training and support. How do you keep track of what's actually on schedule versus what people are telling you is on schedule?
What they are checking: practical release management discipline across multiple workstreams, not just a tools answer
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