BlackBerry QNX- Director, Product Management (Cloud)

Worker Sub-Type: Regular

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BlackBerry® QNX® is a trusted supplier of safe and secure operating systems, hypervisors, frameworks and development tools, and provides expert support and services for building the world's most critical embedded systems. The company's technology is trusted in more than 235 million + vehicles and is deployed in embedded systems around the world, across a range of industries including automotive, medical devices, industrial controls, transportation, heavy machinery and robotics.

BlackBerry QNX software and development tools are standards-based and enable companies to adopt a scalable software platform strategy across product lines and business units. The BlackBerry QNX software portfolio, including our safety pre-certified product versions, is purpose built for embedded systems and scales to support everything from single-purpose devices to highly complex, mixed-criticality platforms.

Are you the person we are looking for?

We are seeking a Product Management Director to lead the definition and management of our new next generation cloud enabled products.

In this new role, you will lead a cloud product management team and work with your product management colleagues to help define and execute our strategic BlackBerry QNX cloud enablement roadmap to complement our suite of foundation edge products in the automotive and general embedded markets. Cloud enablement of our products is a key pillar of our strategic roadmap, and this role is a tremendous opportunity to build something great.

To be successful in this role, you should have a strong and successful leadership experience including a cloud product management background as well as proven technical, business, and organizational skills. The ability to articulate and manage at the conceptual level as well as to dive deep into the solution details when required are important success factors for this role. This role will bring the opportunity to work closely with our customers and partners wherever they are in their cloud adoption journey.

In return for your skills, expertise and enthusiasm, we will provide you with an attractive compensation & comprehensive benefits package.  You will also have the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic global environment, working alongside outstanding colleagues, delivering a ground-breaking embedded OS. 

This really is a unique opportunity! 

You will:

• Own the full lifecycle of our cloud products and related services to enable our customers to be successful in their cloud adoption journey

• Drive the cloud go-to-market strategy to successfully launch new products and lead successful execution across functional teams.

• Develop positioning and messaging that resonates with customers and partners to drive business capture and thought leadership.

• Work closely with Engineering, Legal, Finance and other groups to manage the BlackBerry QNX cloud product portfolio from concept to general availability, participating and leading cross-functional initiatives as required

• Conduct market analysis to identify customer success opportunities using market research, segmentation analysis and 1:1 customer and partner interviews.

• Assist in the development of cloud business models and modeling to support even greater portfolio investment

• Prime for Webinars, tradeshows, customer / prospect tours, other outbound events

You will have:

• Bachelors or Master's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent technical degree or diploma program

• Significant product management experience related to Automotive electronic systems and/or other mission critical embedded devices

• Product management experience related to Cloud (AWS, GPC or Azure) products and services

• Experience leading a product management team

• Experience in cloud enablement of edge products in IoT

• Ability to clearly articulate product requirements and prioritize enhancement requests

• Knowledge of multiple functional areas such as product management, engineering, finance and marketing

• Proven ability to work and engage with world-class engineering talent

• Demonstrated experience communicating and presenting to C-Suite and technical subject matter experts across an organization

• Strong technical background to be able to successfully engage with automotive and general embedded customers

It would also be great if you have knowledge of embedded OS, Hypervisor and Development tools software and related functional safety standards (e.g., ISO 26262, IEC 61508) and/or security standards (e.g. ISO 21434) but it's not essential.

Interested in hearing more?  Then we would love to hear from you. 

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Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) is a trusted security software and services company that provides enterprises and governments with the technology they need to secure the Internet of Things. Headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, the company is unwavering in its commitment to safety, cybersecurity and data privacy, and leads in key areas such as artificial intelligence, endpoint security and management, encryption and embedded systems. You couldn't choose a more exciting time to consider joining us! For more information, visit ~~~ and follow @BlackBerry.

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