Principal Product Manager; Vehicle Platform

Principal Product Manager (Vehicle Platform)

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We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead the strategic vision, portfolio direction, and investment decisions for a vehicle platform, spanning base software, core platform services, and body domain applications. This role steers long-term platform strategy, drives major business impact, and represents the platform’s technical and market leadership both within and beyond the company.

• Establishes and owns the vision and strategic priorities for products within your domain
• Ensures the product backlog reflects the vision and strategy by working closely with other Product Managers
• Collaborates with stakeholders to define objectives & key results (OKR), product themes, and features
• Uses business cases to make the case for new features and products/technology
• Sets product feature priorities and timelines, analyzes trade-offs, and considers business & sales impact of different features to provide data-driven prioritized requirements to engineering teams
• Collaborates with the team to detail features with business value and acceptance criteria
• Coordinates dependencies with other product managers within the Software organization
• Builds relationships with key stakeholders and other influencers
• Works cross functionally with other product areas within the Software Organization and across the enterprise
• Considers flexibility and scalability as core attributes of the platform
• Continuously researches industry developments, new market trends and forces, and understands how our products are performing with current customers
• Advise senior leaders on technology trends, partner strategy, and ecosystem development.
• Represent the company in industry forums, panels, and standards bodies.
• Publish white papers, present at industry events, and drive thought leadership in vehicle platforms.
• Define and evolve the long-term product vision and portfolio strategy.
• Make autonomous decisions on major investments, platform architecture, and build vs. buy choices.
• Develop and mentor senior and junior product managers.
• Foster a culture of excellence, innovation, and cross-team collaboration.

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical / Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• A minimum of 10 years relevant technical experience including a minimum of 5 years technical leadership experience

• Desire to dive deep in understanding the product, our business, and the competitive landscape
• Knowledge and experience with vehicle hardware/software development and launch of successful products
• Proven ability to work in a cross-functional team with system/solution architects, HW designers, SW architects/developers, HW/SW integrators, and business teams
• Strong relationship building skills, including the ability to relate constructively to all levels of an organization
• Strong listening, technical writing, and oral communication skills in English
• Outstanding skills in presenting to both technical and executive audiences

• Master of Science in Electrical, Computer, Information Technology or equivalent
• A minimum of 5 years of experience as a Product Manager of an embedded software/hardware product
• Background in product management of automotive products
• Work experience at OEMs or suppliers with electrical/electronic (E/E) architectures, specifically Vehicle System Architecture, software architecture, automotive electronics, interfaces, and protocols used in automotive domain
• A software development background with experience in one or more programming languages (e.g., C/C++, Java, Python)
• Experience with embedded software/hardware product development and life cycles, including agile methodologies
• Experience working with in an Agile environment
• Experience working with AUTOSAR (Classic and Adaptive), QNX, and/or Linux
• Experience working with automotive networks (i.e. CAN, LIN, Ethernet) and protocols (e.g. UDS, SOME/IP, etc.)
• Experience working with service-oriented architectures
• Experience with cybersecurity and functional safety concepts for automotive products
• Experience working with automotive MPUs and/or MCUs
• Knowledge of ADAS and Cockpit systems
• Experience with IOT, Streaming, or Edge computing technologies

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Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Engineering and Information Technology

Motor Vehicle Manufacturing

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