Assignment Description

We are looking for an Embedded Car Product Manager to our client. They are a small team focused on delivering the best of their clients’ offerings into cars. Their responsibility is broad, with relationships with automotive companies on a global scale. You will work closely with engineering, design, and business development to identify new automotive opportunities, prioritize and unblock delivery work, and optimize the in-car experience for future partners and platforms.

Who you are:

• Direct Automotive experience is not essential, but experience working in a tech related B2B environment would be highly beneficial.
• You have (5+) experience with agile development methodology as a product manager.
• Experience in setting and executing on a product backlog; balancing innovations with short and long-term goals.
• Highly capable of formulating and communicating product vision and strategy, whether it be to your team or to senior partners.
• Familiarity with using both Qualitative and Quantitative research.
• Although you are not a technical expert you can understand technical limitations and make investment decisions based on ROI and Total cost of ownership.

What you’ll do:

THINK IT:

• Shape the squads priorities and maintain focus on the work items that matter most to the product and the business.
• Work directly with partners Partner with stakeholders across the business to define and develop new partner/platform opportunity assessments that supports the current and future strategy.
• Onboard new partners and/or new platforms, representing Product with understanding and empathy for the Automotive space.
• Own the short, medium and long term execution from start to finish.
• Keep an eye on emerging technologies, and assess their relevance to the embedded automotive products, the client’s developers and their end-users.

BUILD & SHIP IT:

• Understand the desires of their partners, build use cases around those desires and translate those use cases into product definitions and stories in a prioritized backlog.
• Understand, partake in and discuss the architecture and technical decisions made in the team.
• Support the engineering team and their partners with defect resolution and prioritization.

TWEAK IT:

• Monitor, summarize, and report feedback from the user base, as well as media and industry comments or feedback.
• Manage end of product life cycle, whether decisions require reinvestment, transitioning to maintenance or product retirement.
• Support the squad in constantly learning and improving their ways of working together.

RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION

• Develop relationships across the company and with external stakeholders, partners, and suppliers.
• Working closely with other squads, looking for opportunities to improve their everyday tasks.
• Partner with engineering to align strategy with technology.
• Clearly communicate the vision, plans, objectives and performance measures and progress against plans to all stakeholders – tailoring communication as appropriate to ensure relevance to the audience.