The Principle Platform Product Manager of STLA-Brain in the Software Organization leads the strategic vision, portfolio direction, and investment decisions for the 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.
Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- 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.
Basic Qualifications:
- 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
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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 lifecycles, 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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What We Do
Our storied and iconic brands embody the passion of their visionary founders and today’s customers in their innovative products and services: they include Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep®, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall and mobility brands Free2move and Leasys. Powered by our diversity, we lead the way the world moves – aspiring to become the greatest sustainable mobility tech company, not the biggest, while creating added value for all stakeholders as well as the communities in which we operate.
