AI Native Product Manager, Forest Operations

AI native Product Manager, Forest Operations

Trimble Forestry is looking for a Product Manager with a broad generalist mindset and AI experience to lead our Forest Operations solutions. You will have the unique opportunity to bridge customer needs with emerging technologies, driving measurable global impact while operating within a high-ownership, innovative environment that empowers you to build the future of timber supply chains.

About Us:

Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it's helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress.

You can read more about our current Forestry product here: https://www.trimble.com/en/products/forestry/cfharvest

What Makes This Role Interesting:

In this role, you will be the co-architect of our products in Forest Operations, directly influencing how global timber supply chains evolve through intelligent automation. You will not just manage a roadmap; you will champion an AI-first culture, leveraging modern tools like Cursor to prototype and deliver high-impact solutions that solve complex, real-world forestry operational challenges.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Translate business opportunities, customer feedback, market insights, and operational challenges into clear product requirements, user stories, and scalable solution concepts.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, Design, Data, Sales, Customer Success, and Operations to ensure successful product delivery, adoption, and measurable business impact.
• Prioritize initiatives based on customer value, business impact, technical feasibility, strategic importance, and AI-enabled opportunities while balancing short-term execution and long-term product vision.
• Validate product decisions through customer interviews, usage analytics, experimentation, market research, and performance measurement to continuously improve outcomes.
• Monitor product performance, adoption, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency to identify improvement opportunities and ensure measurable business results.
• Apply systems thinking to product and operational decisions by understanding how changes impact the broader ecosystem, workflows, incentives, and long-term business performance.
• Demonstrate strong product taste by identifying customer needs, market opportunities, and product improvements that may not yet be obvious through data alone.
• Operate with a high degree of ownership, adaptability, and curiosity, proactively learning new domains, technologies, and workflows critical to the mission.
• Champion an AI-first product culture by identifying opportunities to apply AI, automation, and intelligent workflows to improve internal productivity and customer-facing experiences.
• Utilize modern AI-assisted tools and productivity platforms (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Notion AI, or similar solutions) to accelerate product discovery, prototyping, analysis, documentation, collaboration, and operational efficiency.
• Continuously explore and adopt new AI capabilities independently, integrating them into daily workflows without requiring formal enablement or training.

Your Essential Skills & Experience:

• Strong customer-centric mindset with proven skills in problem-solving, ownership, and driving measurable business impact.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, make clear decisions under uncertainty, and balance short-term execution with long-term strategic goals.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to use customer feedback, usage data, market insights, and experimentation to drive product decisions and measure success.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Data, and commercial teams in agile product development environments.
• Proven experience in Product Management, preferably within B2B SaaS.
• Strong product taste and judgment, with the ability to anticipate customer and market reactions beyond obvious or immediately visible signals.
• Systems thinking mindset with the ability to understand second-order effects, operational dependencies, and long-term ecosystem impacts of product decisions.
• Generalist mindset with strong intellectual curiosity and the ability to quickly develop competence across new domains, technologies, and business challenges.
• AI-first mentality with demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools and workflows to improve execution speed, quality, learning, creativity, and decision-making.
• Hands-on experience using AI-powered tools and modern productivity platforms such as Cursor, Claude Code, Notion AI, or similar solutions in day-to-day workflows.
• Self-directed learner who actively experiments with and adopts emerging AI technologies without relying on formal company training or structured guidance.
• Ability to identify opportunities where AI, automation, and intelligent systems can create customer and operational value.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience working in international and matrix organizations with cross-regional product ownership and stakeholder management.
• Familiarity with data-driven product development, business intelligence tools, and product performance measurement frameworks.
• Experience with AI-driven product concepts, workflow automation, platform-based product ecosystems, or AI-assisted operational processes is considered a strong advantage.
• Practical experience working with AI-enabled product development workflows and modern AI tooling ecosystems.
• Experience or familiarity with the forestry, timber, paper, wood products, or broader forestry supply chain industry is considered an advantage.

Location: Germany, Austria, or Estonia (Remote)

Travel Requirement: 15% (approximately 50 days per year)

Why You'll Enjoy Working With Us:

At Trimble, we're not just a company that "does good"—we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact. We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow.

You'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.

Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work.

Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored," empowering proactive "doers."

Product Management, B2B SaaS, Forestry Technology, AI Product Manager, Systems Thinking, Supply Chain Automation, Remote Product Jobs, Trimble Careers, Forest Operations, Digital Transformation.

How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.

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