Trimble Inc.Architecting the Future: Vice President of Platform Product Management (AI & Ecosystems)
Architecting the Future: Vice President of Platform Product Management (AI & Ecosystems)
Are you ready to lead a global tech titan through its most significant evolution yet by bridging the physical and digital worlds? Trimble is seeking a visionary executive to transform our expansive product portfolio into a unified, AI-first ecosystem that powers the world’s most essential industries, delivering a cohesive, high-value experience that redefines how our customers operate on a global scale.
What Makes This Role Great:
This is a rare opportunity to serve as the chief architect of Trimble’s digital transformation, moving beyond individual applications to build a shared platform powerhouse. You will have the unique mandate to redefine the product development lifecycle for an AI-first paradigm, overseeing the strategic execution of Trimble Connect and driving common capabilities across a high-growth, global matrixed organization.
Key Exciting Responsibilities
Platform Transformation: Lead the strategic shift from products and apps to a shared platform ecosystem. Develop and evangelize a roadmap for common services that provides a clear "path to value" for Trimble’s autonomous business units.
Trimble Connect: As the centerpiece of our collaborative and unifying common data environment, ensure maximization of Trimble Connect’s value and impact globally.
AI-First Product and UX Leadership: Transform the product management function to operate in an AI-first paradigm. This includes redefining the product development lifecycle for AI, accelerating time to customer validation and to market validation for new capabilities
Unified Roadmap: Develop a modern, novel approach to rigorous and ongoing capital allocation and prioritization across a large product portfolio, ensuring an optimal balance across new and mature products.
Capability Driven Adoption and Relationship Management: Act as the primary driver for platform approaches and requirements across Trimble’s sectors. Build and foster deep, collaborative relationships with product and engineering leadership to adopt and create common platform capabilities.Navigate a complex, highly matrixed organization to create buy-in, clearly articulating the strategic trade-offs and long-term value of a platform and capability-driven approach.
Metrics and Analytics-Driven Governance: Establish and track clear KPIs to measure platform impact, including adoption rates, internal customer satisfaction, speed-to-market improvements for sectors, and platform-driven revenue growth.
Strategy and Product Marketing: Partner with GTM and marketing teams to define the value proposition of the Trimble Platform. Ensure that platform capabilities are effectively translated into competitive advantages in the marketplace.
GTM Execution: Collaborate on pricing, packaging, and commercialization strategies for platform-enabled services, ensuring they align with broader objectives.
Essential Skills & Experience
Minimum of 10 years in Product Management leadership within a large B2B SaaS or platform-centric environment.
Proven track record of leading major organizational transformations, specifically moving from multi-product portfolios to unified platform models.
Demonstrated experience evolving a product organization to be AI-first, including deep knowledge of AI deployment and monitoring.
Exceptional ability to influence and build buy-in within a complex, highly matrixed, or decentralized corporate structure.
Strong background in GTM strategy, product marketing, and capital allocation for large product portfolios.
Bonus Points For
Advanced degree (MBA) or technical degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
Deep familiarity with modern cloud architecture, data lakehouses, and large-scale API ecosystems.
Experience in conflict resolution across competing business units with a service-oriented mindset toward internal customers.
Logistics
Location: Westminster, CO, In-Office
Travel Requirement: 25%
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
$189,900.00–$256,500.00
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: Applications could be accepted until at least 30 days from the posting date.
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.
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