CAD Product Owner

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department OverviewThe Response & Reporting engineering organization does not simply develop software; we architect the operational intelligence engines that secure communities worldwide. We build and maintain the mission-critical platforms used by public safety agencies to orchestrate live incident command, manage massive ecosystems of digital evidence, process electronic records, and drive real-time crime analytics. When seconds matter, our code is the operational backbone for first responders.
Job Description

The product owner is responsible for the ownership and managing of the backlog for their assigned value stream(s), contributes to the product roadmap, and understands customer and market needs for the CAD product. The product owner works in partnership with the product manager and relies on their technical knowledge and background to define user stories and acceptance criteria, engage with assigned Engineering teams, and refine the backlog. The ability to deeply understand technical architecture, define engineering behind features, and translate high-level customer functional requirements into technical for development is a crucial skill. In addition, the ability to describe the impact of technical requirements on customers, non-technical sales, and support resources is a must.

This position will be responsible for filling the agile product owner role for the CAD product. In this role, the product owner champions the needs of the user, customer, and other stakeholders throughout the development process to ensure that what is delivered meets the goals, objectives, and desired outcomes of the project. To be successful, one must manage multiple projects simultaneously, at various stages of their development, from idea to completed feature.

• Develop strong relationships with UI/UX teams and work in close partnership with research and design colleagues.

• Actively involved in initiative and epic refinement as an integral member of the Product Management team.

• Responsible for building, editing, and maintaining the team backlog, including user stories, defects, and research spikes.

• Review and prioritize the backlog as part of the preparatory work for release and sprint planning, including coordination of dependencies with other POs.

• Contribute to the roadmap.

• Involved in release planning, reviewing vision, and content presentations to assigned engineering team(s).

• Collaborate with the team to detail user stories with acceptance criteria.

• Maintain the proper flow of features, user stories, and acceptance criteria in the backlog.

• Agree on accepted story completion, including validating that the story meets acceptance criteria and that it complies with the Definition of Done (DoD).

• Understand the scope of needed research spikes and collaborate with Engineering to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the critical technological infrastructures.

• Collaborate with the team and any other stakeholders in the team demo.

• Lead and participate in the appropriate agile ceremonies.

• Integrate generative and agentic AI utilities directly into the product lifecycle to accelerate the documentation of complex system requirements and user flows.

• Leverage advanced AI workflows to draft highly granular user stories and comprehensive acceptance criteria, ensuring standard technical clarity across teams.

• Utilize AI to automate repetitive administrative SDLC tasks, including initial release notes drafting, alignment summaries, and backlog template generation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree

• 4+ years of progressive experience in business analysis, product ownership, product planning, product management, or engineering

• Strong technical background—you don’t need to code, but you can diagram an architecture, spot integration risks, and talk through implementation choices with developers.

• Deep technical knowledge in software development methodologies, with a focus on leveraging AI to accelerate and improve the SDLC

• Deep understanding of on-premise and/or cloud-based enterprise software.

• Exceptional communicator—especially in writing. You take pride in crafting user stories that are crisp, testable, and aligned to business goals.

• Able to translate complex ideas into language that’s useful to both engineers and

• stakeholders—whether technical docs, acceptance criteria, or internal presentations.

• Experience in Public Safety or high-availability domains is a strong plus.

Motorola Solutions is building talent pipelines to meet future hiring demands. This is a pipeline role, while there may not be an immediate opening, we want to build relationships with prospective candidates. If your background is a match to our requirements, we will follow up with an exploratory conversation.

Target Base Salary Range: $110,000 - $ $135,000 USD. 

Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

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Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree

• 4+ years of progressive experience in business analysis, product ownership, product planning, product management, or engineering

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position.

Travel RequirementsUnder 10%
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperienced
Referral Payment PlanNo

Our U.S. Benefits include:

• Incentive Bonus Plans

• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

• 401K with Company Match

• 10 Paid Holidays

• Generous Paid Time Off Packages

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Paid Parental & Family Leave

• and more!

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.