Go-To-Market Product Manager - (Commercial Strategy, Pricing & Launch Readiness)

Irvine, CA (Hybrid)

$150K/yr – $180K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 11 days ago

Job Summary

Own the go-to-market strategy for defense software products, leading pricing, packaging, launches, and post‑launch performance across Sales, Engineering, Marketing, and Support.

  • Define pricing structures and licensing models across core radio and waveform segments
  • Lead cross-functional commercial readiness and product launches
  • Track performance and monetize opportunities from customer feedback and market trends

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Commercial Strategy & Pricing
  • Pricing & SW Packaging Strategy: Define pricing structures, software licensing models, and software feature tiering strategies across all core radio and waveforms segments to maximize product adoption and recurring software revenue.
  • BOM & Margin Optimization: Partner directly with strategic Product Line Managers (PLMs) to drive overall product profitability by optimizing Bill of Materials (BOM) cost targets, establishing margin profiles, and analyzing pricing-cost trade-offs.
  • Sales Engagement & Customer Alignment
  • Sales Enablement: Partner with Sales, Business Development, and Applications Engineering on high-impact customer engagements. Create commercial assets, win/loss analyses, and sales training tools to unblock sales pipelines.
  • Customer Alignment & Feedback: Synthesize customer and field feedback into commercial insights. Establish structured win/loss tracking mechanisms to continuously refine monetization strategies.
  • Commercial Readiness & Product Launches
  • Commercial Launch Readiness: Lead cross-functional commercialization activities across the entire portfolio, ensuring Sales, Applications Engineering, Technical Marketing Engineering (TME), Marketing, and Support are fully aligned and prepared for successful product launches.
  • Commercial Collateral & Frameworks: Lead the development of standardized commercial launch readiness checklists, business case templates, and win/loss tracking framework and tool.
  • Business Performance & Analytics: Regularly measure and report on key product performance indicators, including customer adoption, commercial pipeline velocity, pricing effectiveness, and overall market success to recommend business improvements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, RF Engineering, or a highly related technical/business discipline.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in go-to-market management, pricing strategy, business development, or product management within the defense, aerospace, or wireless communications industries.
  • Proven track record of designing software packaging structures, defining pricing matrices, analyzing margins, and coordinating commercial readiness for hardware and software product launches.
  • Proven track record of influencing cross-functional engineering, operations, and sales teams without direct authority to meet rigid release dates.
  • Security Clearance: Active U.S. Government SECRET clearance or the ability to obtain one within 15 months of hire.
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen due to clients under U.S. government contracts.
  • All employment is contingent upon the successful clearance of a background check and drug test.

Preferred

  • Working knowledge of wireless communications, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), RF systems, software-defined radios (SDRs), or electromagnetic spectrum operations.
  • Familiarity with DoD acquisition cycles, federal program capture dynamics, and government contracting pricing strategies.
  • Master’s degree in business administration (MBA) or an engineering/technical discipline.
  • Familiarity with tracking project metrics.

Benefits

  • 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!

Motorola Solutions

About Motorola Solutions | Solving for safer Safety and security are at the heart of everything we do at Motorola Solutions. 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. Learn more about our commitment to innovating for a safer future for us all at www.motorolasolutions.com.

Founded in 1999
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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