Ctct Gca Director Of Product

Your Title: CTCT Grade Control Application Director of Product Job Location: Christchurch, New Zealand Our Department: CTCTApplication Deadline: 19 March 2025 Your Position The CTCT Grade Control Application (GCA) Director of Product will guide and mold the product vision and plan by utilizing their proven ability to prioritize and execute initiatives to enable product teams to better solve problems for their customers.
The director will take full responsibility for the success of the grade control applications through the execution of the organizational and product strategy.
The grade control application consists of end-customer products for various earthmoving, roading, landfill, and mining workflows across a continuum of customer market segments: Local, Site, and Advanced contractors.
The grade control applications will be built leveraging capabilities the grade control platform teams provide, which include hardware solutions, positioning, commissioning, control, and grade control platform software services.
The applications will be developed by product teams that own and are truly accountable for multi-tiered products segregated by machine types that are radically simple and provide customer value by solving valuable problems and creating positive business impact and ROI.
Product teams will collaborate closely with Portfolio and Customer Segment teams to vet customer value opportunities and confirm the solutions in the delivered product will deliver value.
The GCA Director of Product will be accountable for developing roadmaps at a level that informs and empowers each product team to own their product roadmap that delivers on the CTCT strategy while meeting Cat and Trimble's prioritized needs as communicated by the CAT and Trimble Portfolio teams.
The key outcomes necessary are: Customer Value and Business Viability Product Risks Products delight customers through the value they deliver.
Customers buy the product and choose to use it.
(Customer Centric)Products enable the success of CTCT as a business.
The solutions in the product work for our business (Cost Effective)Decisions about what to do are made by balancing product, usability, and feasibility risks in collaboration with Design and Technical Leads Own and manage the backlog of work for the Product team: Provides leadership through, and manages, a global team of group product managers and product leads teams to empower their product teams to build and execute the product, aligned with the vision and strategy, utilizing metrics, data, and market insights to reduce product waste and increase valuable outcomes and impacts Prioritize and execute commercial activities such as pricing, marketing, and portfolio success monitoring to drive growth Communicate the product vision and strategy to stakeholders, both internally and externally Guide the adoption of OKR alignment and use of an adoption dashboard to track and measure success Foster a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation within the product teams Collaborate with the product teams across the GCA and GCP and all levels of the organization to drive product success.
Partner with key roles such as Product Operations Manager, Engineering Director of Grade Control Applications, Sr Portfolio Managers, Grade Control Platform Sr Product Manager and the Customer Segment Manager to ensure the product teams needs are fully met to enable product success Present product updates and strategies to large groups and executive stakeholders, influencing and negotiating for the resource and funding required for success of the grade control application products Stay current with industry trends and market insights and applies broad industry and commercial knowledge to contributing to the organizational plan and product strategy Deliver stakeholder needs: Communicate the product vision and strategy to stakeholders, both internally and externally Keep stakeholders updated with key deliverables, status, challenges, and celebrations Ensure the impact of changes are measured and understood Deliver outcomes to the expected level of product quality Justify why the solution being implemented is the right solution for the customer problem Help stakeholders articulate the problems that need to be solved.
Serve the organisation: Act as a servant leader and effect change through influence and inspiration Collaborate with other Product Leads, Product Managers, Software Project Managers, Verification and Validation, Design and Technical Leads, to resolve blockers Perform additional tasks as required from time to time.
Constantly work to improve and develop both Product Management and people skills What Skills & Experience You Should Bring Demonstrated expertise in a software Product Management role, from Strategy to Execution Inclusive attitude and experience working closely with design and engineering teams Proven experience leading teams shipping digital products Experience with agile and software development practices, techniques, and methods for cloud and/or Saa S products Experience with a global product and teams Experience translating and prioritizing big strategic priorities into roadmap items Managing multiple stakeholders with a customer centric attitude while setting appropriate expectations Understanding customer needs and collaborating to find and propose the right solutions to meet those needs Forming, coaching, and training teams to adapt to new ways of working Experience in or with relevant industries (civil construction, resources, communications, tech)Problem discovery and solution framing Workshop facilitation drawing out all the voices by facilitating the right activities to get to the right information Attuned to the needs of the internal and external customer while thinking like the end user Collaborative and decisive working style Influence and persuade with and without authority Ability to respond to inspection with positive intent Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT)The CTCT division (a joint venture between Trimble and Caterpillar) exists to create the industry standard grade control platform, enabling the development of positioning and control products for earthmoving, paving and compaction machines in the construction, mining and landfill industries, using technologies such as GNSS, optical total stations, lasers and sonics.
The products are used in a range of applications where the operator of the machine benefits from having accurate horizontal and vertical guidance (and awareness(zones, and more)) and the office benefits from rich data collected on the machine and sent back via the internet.
For more information on currently developed products, see construction.trimble.com/earthworks and The Making of Trimble Earthworks.
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