Monday, January 14, 2008

Group Prod Mgmt Mgr, Mobile Linux, Wind River, Alameda, CA, USA, relo=maybe

Group Prod Mgmt Mgr, Mobile Linux, Wind River
Alameda, CA, USA
relo=maybe

Reports To: Director, Product Mgmt


Product Line Manager, Linux for Mobile Handsets role at Wind River Systems!!!

(This full-time position is based in Alameda, California)

Linux solutions play a critical role in today’s embedded market. In a company with significant growth opportunities, you will be an integral part of a team creating a complete solution for the embedded market using Linux as a development host and target platform.

The Product Line Manager for Wind River Linux will focus on building our Linux RTOS strategy and product plan for the mobile handset industry - currently a fast growing and exciting Linux product. The product manager will own the complete product lifecycle deliverables including strategy, business plan, product requirements, product planning, positioning, pricing and sales enablement.

Responsibilities:

  • Grow Wind River’s Linux in the Mobile Handset space.
  • Understand embedded Linux device requirements and market characteristics, and translate this understanding into strategies, roadmaps, and product requirements for the networking industry.
  • Develop business cases, Market Requirements Documents (MRD) and Product Requirement Documents (PRD).
  • Own positioning, pricing strategies, and competitive activity related to the Linux platforms.
  • Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to deliver required products.
  • Collaborate with partners to assemble appropriate value-added products and services.
  • Support activities of corporate marketing and sales.

Job Requirements:

  • 7 years in product management or product marketing, preferably in the mobile handset or mobile middleware space.
  • Complete understanding of operating systems and tools used by the mobile handset industry in all stages of products.
  • Knowledge of open source business models critical.
  • 3+ years experience with Linux technologies, products, and open source including
    1. Carrier grade Linux, runtime, kernel & tools technology experience
    2. Strong knowledge of the market ecosystem including semiconductor partners, Linux on MIPS and Linux on PowerPC
    3. Industry experience in mobile device market
  • Experience with real-time embedded technologies a plus
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills are required
  • Strong analytical skills.
  • Technical degree (EE or CS) MBA desired

More about Wind River Systems…

Wind River helps you develop, run, and manage device software—faster, better, at lower cost, and more reliably—to accelerate your time-to-market for highly differentiated devices. Only Wind River can deliver on all of your requirements across the DSO life cycle, from development through deployment and management, from hardware optimization through middleware and application integration.

For more information please visit our website at www.windriver.com




If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:

Darren Bronson
Product Manager
Wind River
darrenbronson@yahoo.com


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