Product Lead

Product Lead - Machine Systems Opportunity

Ready to turn high-level strategic visions into flawlessly executed product realities? Trimble is looking for a dynamic champion of Agile execution to drive alignment, eliminate development friction, and maximize value delivery every single sprint.

Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it's helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress.

What Makes This Role Great:

In this role, you will act as the crucial internal steward and execution shield for our Machine Systems engineering teams, empowering them to build highly intuitive solutions while ensuring an impressive 90% solution validation rate before code is even written.

Key Exciting Responsibilities

• Translate high-level strategic themes into precise, actionable user stories and detailed acceptance criteria for the development team.
• Lead continuous user discovery and solution validation in close partnership with UX/Design teams to unearth root customer pain points using prototypes and mockups.
• Own, prioritize, and refine the product backlog to guarantee a perpetually ready pipeline of 2-3 sprints of high-value work.
• Champion engineering focus by acting as the ultimate execution shield, managing cross-team dependencies and minimizing mid-sprint scope changes.
• Partner with engineering leadership to balance commercial feature delivery with technical health, infrastructure upgrades, and system supportability.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven background as a Product Owner or Technical Product Manager working directly with Agile/Scrum development teams.
• Strong user-centric focus with demonstrated capability in translating market value into highly usable features and validated solutions.
• Outstanding precision in writing clear, unambiguous user stories and detailed acceptance criteria.
• Decisive prioritization skills with the ability to manage complex dependencies across diverse cross-functional groups.
• Technical aptitude sufficient to understand, evaluate, and prioritize technical debt alongside feature development.

Bonus Points For

• Experience working with complex hardware, systems engineering, or machine control solutions.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent Agile product management credentials.

Logistics

Location: Dayton, Ohio, Onsite

Travel Requirement: 10%

Why You'll Love Working With Us

At Trimble, we're not just a company that "does good"—we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact. We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow.

You'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.

Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work.

Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored," empowering proactive "doers."

Compensation: Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

Hiring Range: $136,400.00–$187,500.00

Pay Rate Type: Salary

Bonus Eligible?: Yes

Commission Eligible?: No

Benefits: Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.