Product Lead

Accelerate Product Innovation: 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. About Us 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." Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, Product Lead, Agile Scrum, Backlog Grooming, Machine Systems, Solution Validation, User Stories, Product Delivery, Trimble Jobs, Field Systems 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. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date. How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the 'Apply Now' button located in this posting. Application Deadline: Trimble accepts applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values—Belong, Innovate, and Grow—we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at https://investor.trimble.com, under "Corporate Governance." Our mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. By actively listening, asking questions, and taking intentional actions, we cultivate a culture that provides equitable opportunities for everyone to contribute and grow. Candidate Privacy Notices by Country If you need assistance or would like to request an accommodation in connection with the application process, please contact careers@trimble.com. 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 range of industries such as agriculture, construction, geospatial and transportation and logistics. For more information about Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), visit www.trimble.com.