Job Description:

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced and highly driven professional to lead the end-to-end development, launch, scaling, and operationalization of innovative technology products that require significant software development and hardware integration. The Project Manager serves as the primary leader responsible for transforming business concepts into market-ready solutions, overseeing the entire product lifecycle from business case development and roadmap definition through design, development, deployment, and ongoing operations.

The successful candidate will combine strong project and program management capabilities with a deep understanding of software engineering practices, systems integration, and hardware-enabled solutions. They will effectively bridge business stakeholders, product teams, engineering teams, vendors, and operations organizations to ensure successful delivery of complex technology products.

Key responsibilities:

Product Strategy & Planning

• Lead the translation of business opportunities into executable product development programs.
• Define product vision, roadmap, business objectives, success metrics, and launch strategies.
• Develop and manage business cases, investment plans, schedules, budgets, and resource requirements.
• Collaborate with executive leadership to align product initiatives with strategic business goals.

Program & Project Leadership

• Own the end-to-end delivery of complex technology products from concept through commercialization.
• Manage cross-functional teams including product managers, software engineers, hardware engineers, quality assurance, operations, and external vendors.
• Establish and maintain project governance, risk management, reporting, and decision-making processes.
• Monitor scope, schedule, budget, dependencies, and resource utilization.

Software Development Management

• Possess a detailed understanding of modern software development methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, DevOps, CI/CD, cloud-native architectures, APIs, microservices, cybersecurity, and quality assurance practices.
• Partner closely with development teams to evaluate technical solutions, development plans, architecture decisions, and release strategies.
• Ensure product requirements are clearly defined, prioritized, and successfully translated into technical deliverables.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks and delivery challenges.

Hardware & Systems Integration

• Oversee integration of hardware, devices, sensors, IoT components, communications infrastructure, and third-party systems.
• Coordinate validation, testing, interoperability, performance verification, and deployment readiness activities.
• Ensure seamless integration between physical infrastructure and software platforms.
• Manage vendor relationships and technical integration partners.

Product Launch & Scaling

• Develop and execute go-to-market and deployment strategies.
• Lead pilot programs, customer acceptance testing, launch readiness reviews, and production deployments.
• Define operational support models and transition products into sustainable operations.
• Drive continuous improvement, product evolution, and scalability initiatives.

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary liaison between business leadership and technical teams.
• Communicate program status, key decisions, risks, and mitigation plans to executive stakeholders.
• Build alignment across diverse stakeholder groups with competing priorities.
• Facilitate strategic and technical decision-making processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in product development, technology program management, or related leadership roles in the transportation industry.
• Demonstrated success delivering complex products involving both software development and hardware integration.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, system architecture, cloud platforms, integration patterns, and DevOps practices.
• Experience leading cross-functional product and engineering teams.
• Proven track record managing large-scale programs with significant budgets and multiple stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in engineering, Business, or Technology Management.
• PMP, PgMP, Scrum, Agile, SAFe, or similar certifications.
• Experience with IoT, intelligent transportation systems, tolling, mobility technologies, industrial systems, or connected infrastructure.
• Experience managing third-party technology vendors and strategic partnerships.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity, data analytics, AI-enabled solutions, and cloud-based platforms.
• Must be able to demonstrate high computer proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (specifically Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint)
• Skills in negotiating large contracts with regional implications
• Good teamwork skills required
• Active working attitude required
• Capability to undertake projects with certain self-sufficiency
• Capability to work against tight schedules
• Must be able to proactively multitask, problem solve, and implement innovative processes within a fast-paced environment

Work Environment & Physical Demands:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
• Some travel required; may include air travel within US, Canada and occasionally South America and Europe
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to adjust focus, as necessary to use a computer.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and sit.

Seize the challenge. Move the world together! Innovative, creative, respectful, and diverse are some of the ways we describe ourselves. We are motivated by challenges, and we collaborate across our business units to move the world together. Your journey to a fulfilling career starts here!