Product Manager

**Title**:Product Manager, Crop Care

**Location**:Remote (Europe); Salzkotten, Germany; Heillecourt, France; Gentilly,Paris, France

**Department**:Agriculture

**Reports to**:Manager of the Crop Care team (interim to Director-Production Cycle)

**About Agriculture**

The Trimble Agriculture Division provides solutions that solve complex technology challenges across the entire agricultural supply chain. Our solutions enable farmers to allocate scarce resources to produce a safe, reliable food supply in a profitable and environmentally sustainable manner. Covering all seasons, crops, terrains and farm sizes, Trimble precision agriculture solutions can be used on and with most equipment on the farm, regardless of the manufacturer.

**Introduction**

Trimble is recruiting for a Product Manager-Crop Protection to fill a critical role within the Production Cycle team. This position will be critical to enabling Trimble as a leader in crop protection precision ag technology. This can include self-propelled sprayers, pull type sprayers, orchard/vineyard sprayers, spreaders, nutrient applicators, etc. Primary responsibilities include defining, designing and leading the development of the sprayer workflow solutions required to meet the needs of all customer segments we serve. The PM will report to Doug Daws, Director of Product Management, Production Cycle.

**Primary Duties**
- Economic Segmentation and Value Propositions : strive to understand how our customers run their business, make buying decisions and perceive value. Identify pain points and customer value propositions and product positioning by segment. This requires the ability to act as a business analyst when solving complex customer problems.
- Voice of Customer : Assist in VoC to understand key customer pain points and potential for differentiated value propositions, leading to solutioning.
- Roadmap and Backlog Grooming : Assist in building the 3-5 year crop protection strategy/roadmap. Prioritize execution, including product rationalization, lifecycle management, and support escalation management.
- Feature Definition and Planning Lead: Translate VoC to customer needs and market requirements. Engage engineering to define technical requirements, bringing the voice of the farmer to the design of the product.
- Development Product Lead: Work with technical leads to help plan development efforts for the hardware/software teams.
- Product Feature Validation: represent the end user by testing new features and providing real-time feedback throughout the development process.
- Go-To-Market: direct Go-To-Market messaging by collaborating with the Trimble Ag Marcom team on targeted market segments and new feature value propositions.
- Issue Resolution: Act as primary point person to coordinate resolution of any major customer issues in collaboration with the global support team, resellers and end users.

**Preferred Skills, Experience, & Education**
- 5+ Years of Product Management experience
- Familiarity with Software and Hardware Development Lifecycles
- Solid understanding of other in-field operations a plus and will be considered
- Experience executing go-to-market strategies
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams and lead customers
- Bachelor's degree in technology, engineering, agriculture or related discipline
- Knowledge of Jira, Salesforce and Aha is helpful
- Knowledge of SaaS business model and metrics is a plus

**Information to Review**

The following links are recommended in order to better your understanding of Trimble, and the products available within this particular division.
- Trimble
- **Trimble Agriculture**
- **Trimble Ag Software**
- **Trimble In-cab Display**
- **Trimble NAV-900 Guidance Controller**
- **Trimble Agriculture's Blog
**Videos to Review**:

- **Trimble: Innovation at its best**
- **Trimble: A History of Outstanding Innovations**
- **Trimble Agriculture Solutions**
- **Trimble Agriculture Intro**

**About Trimble**

**Trimble is an exciting, entrepreneurial company, with a history of exceptional growth coupled with a disciplined and strategic focus on being the best. Our solutions are used in over 140 countries and we have incredibly diverse lines of business.**

**Our employees represent this diversity and can be found in over 30 countries, working closely with their colleagues around the world. Due to our geographic, product and customer reach, there is plenty of room at Trimble for exceptional people to grow. Come position yourself with an innovative industry leader and position yourself for success.**

**Trimble is transforming the way the world works by delivering products and services that connect the physical and digital worlds. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity, and data analytics enable customers to improve productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability. From purpose-built products to enterprise lifecycle solutions, Trimble software, hardware, and services are transforming a broad ra