Product Manager - 2025 Summer Internship (Schaumburg Hybrid)

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. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department OverviewMotorola Solutions’ Command Center Software portfolio thrives within the overall Motorola Solutions product ecosystem, and is also enhanced by 3rd party systems our customers use on a daily basis. The Alliances and Ecosystem team is responsible for evaluation and establishment of 3rd party technology partner relationships, alignment of appropriate stakeholders, and establishment of appropriate governance based on established differentiation to ensure ongoing profitability for the Command Center Software business.
Job Description

The Product Manager Intern is responsible for assisting with strategy, roadmap, and feature definition within the Public Safety Software Integrations and Command Center Developer Program team including interfacing with senior product managers, engineering staff, marketing managers and other teams to define and deliver compelling products to the market.

The Product Manager Intern analyzes market and competitive conditions and participates as part of the team that lays out a product vision that is differentiated and delivers unique value based on addressing customer problems. The role of the product manager spans many activities from strategic to tactical and provides cross-functional leadership—bridging gaps within the company between different functions, especially between development, sales and marketing, and support.

The Product Manager Intern helps the team to define the ‘why’, ‘what,’ and ‘when’ of the product that the development team will build. 

Product Management Intern responsibilities include:

Product Vision and Strategy

The Product Manager Intern is responsible for being a key contributing member of the team, by defining customer problems and contributing to a product vision and strategy. Their job is to collect input and articulate the business value to the product team so together they can develop the intent behind the new product or product release.

• Identify customer needs and market requirements

• Evaluate competitive products and solutions

• Help the team to create business plans and proposals for new initiatives

Product Execution

Product managers must plan for what their teams deliver and set expectations for when they need to deliver it. The Product Manager Intern works with senior level product managers to define a vision and roadmap for their products, and the product team to define a release plan.

• Helps the team to define market offer structure

• Make products orderable and deliverable

• Support implementation of training, support and deployment requirements

• Identify risks and help to resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality

Desired Skills

• Familiarity with business or business management

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written are a necessity

• Polished presentation skills for internal and external audiences

• Proactive, enthusiastic attitude toward challenging problems 

• Capable of quickly evaluating and prioritizing new projects alongside customer feedback

• Strong ability to take complex user requirements and distill them into a format that can be understood by developers as well as non-technical staff 

• Ability to research and analyze project requirements from various stakeholders

• Ability to understand market trends, financial data, and customer needs and assess competitive intelligence data.

• Build consensus among stakeholders

• Ability to work well independently and as part of a diverse team spread across multiple continents in a fast-moving environment 

• Ability to multi-task among various assignments

• Understanding business management tools such Jira, Google Docs, MS Office

Note: Candidate must be in the Schaumburg office 1-2 times a week.

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Basic Requirements

• High School Diploma is required

• Must be pursuing a minimum of a Bachelor's Degree with a graduation date of December 2025 or later

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

Travel RequirementsNone
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeIntern

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 email [email protected].