# Principal Product Manager - Connected Devices
**Company:** [Motive](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/motive)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $220K-$280K
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Computer Vision, Ai Hardware, Edge Computing, Embedded Firmware, Iot, Lte, 5G, Wi-Fi, Ble, Can, Obd-Ii, J1939, Prds, Telematics, Adas
**Posted:** 2026-05-14
> Leads vision, strategy, and execution for AI-powered cameras and video safety hardware, driving NPIs across hardware, firmware, web, and mobile while making critical trade-offs in compute, power, and connectivity. Requires 7+ years PM experience shipping CV products and deep fluency in camera/edge systems and IoT stacks.
## Job Description
## What You'll Do

- Own the vision and execution of our AI-powered vision & safety hardware and the corresponding software and firmware capabilities.
- Set and articulate the product's vision, and gain buy-in from our CEO, CPO, CTO, and VP Connected Devices.
- Drive New Product Introductions (NPIs) from ideation through implementation and launch, focusing on excellent execution across hardware, firmware, web, and mobile platforms.
- Make the hard trade-offs across AI computing, installation experience, form factor, battery, and connectivity to deliver a winning safety solution that aligns with business outcomes.
- Define and prioritize firmware features that extend the value of over 1M+ hardware devices in the field by optimizing user experience, connectivity resilience, AI model deployment, and fleet-level observability.
- Write strong PRDs and technical specs that frame the problem, the constraints, and the decisions, ensuring alignment across Hardware, Firmware, Mechanical, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and TPM.
- Collaborate across multiple product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to ship the products that our customers love.
- Define and analyze performance metrics to measure the success of our products in the market, including AI detection accuracy, driver coaching effectiveness, and device reliability (RMA and field failure rates).
- Drive go-to-market readiness by partnering with Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Support, and Install on positioning, enablement, and rollout planning for every NPI and major feature release.

## What We're Looking For

- **7+ years** of product management experience, with meaningful time shipping camera, video, or computer-vision products from concept to launch and sustaining them through post-launch iteration.
- Deep technical fluency in camera and edge-compute systems — image quality, ISP and sensor trade-offs, lens selection, and the device-level constraints (compute headroom, memory, thermal envelope, power, bandwidth) that determine what AI workloads the platform can support. You won't own the CV models themselves — that's our Visual AI team — but you'll partner closely with them and make the hardware and firmware trade-offs that gate their performance in the field.
- Proven ownership of at least one full hardware NPI that reached material volume (ideally 100K+ units), preferably a connected camera or other video-capable device.
- Strong technical fluency across the full IoT stack — embedded firmware, cellular and low-power wireless connectivity (**LTE/5G**, Wi-Fi, BLE), GNSS/location, and the mobile and cloud software that consumes device data.
- Working familiarity with automotive and telematics protocols such as **CAN**, **OBD-II**, and **J1939**, and an understanding of how vehicle data complements video and sensor streams.
- Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives and influence roadmaps across engineering, operations, and GTM without direct authority.
- Customer empathy paired with data fluency — you work diligently to understand customers' mindsets and use data to prioritize ruthlessly.
- High \"EQ\" under pressure — comfortable handling multiple competing priorities and tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to move fluently between executives, hardware/firmware engineers, GTM teams, and customers.
- Trailblazer mindset — humble, kind, and open to learning, with a strong bias to action and a willingness to commit and disagree productively.
- **BA/BS** in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, Embedded Systems, or a related technical field — or equivalent practical experience.

## Bonus Points

- Experience launching cellular-connected video devices at scale (dashcams, security cameras, body cameras, or similar).
- Experience co-developing connected camera platforms with an in-house AI/CV team — translating model requirements into silicon, sensor, and thermal decisions, and balancing AI compute against cost, power, and form factor.
- Background in fleet safety, telematics, ADAS, or automotive technology.
- Familiarity with regulatory and certification regimes for connected video devices (**FCC**, CE, PTCRB, GCF, automotive EMC).">
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