Dimming Glass Product Owner

About the role

At Gentex, you’ll help create innovative technologies that improve how people live, travel, and stay connected. Join a company driven by quality products across an evolving range of industries. Product Owner I is responsible for supporting the translation of Product Management strategies into engineering execution for Gentex products. This may span the entire product life cycle from early research to postproduction support. While there are elements of typical Product Ownership as part of this role, such as sprint planning and backlog grooming, there are also many aspects that are unique to Gentex and our diverse Product Portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and drive work across engineering disciplines to ensure development projects stay aligned with product strategies and product roadmaps.
• Support PDSs (i.e. PRDs) and other high-level product requirements, including system architecture.
• Provide regular feedback to the Product Line Manager to help develop and maintain product roadmaps and strategies.
• Provide guidance and decision making to ensure effective backlog grooming and prioritization of project execution tasks, including escalation of timing or delivery concerns.
• Support RFIs, RFQ and other customer activities for Product and technical topics.
• Ensure robust product testing is being completed across teams and at various stages of maturity.
• Research and support new technology assimilation opportunities, ensuring you maintain expertise in your product or technology area.
• Assist in development of prototype Proof of Concept (POC) systems & demonstrators for trade shows and customers.
• Coordinate and participate in benchmarking and competitive product evaluation.
• Build relationships and regularly interface with Gentex Research, GTI, Advanced Engineering and Launch Engineering.
• Attend trade shows and build relationships within your product area and ecosystem.
• The area of focus includes automotive applications for the next generations of established dimming products, such as Inside/Outside electrochromic mirrors and all new product platforms, such as dimming visors and large area glazings.
• Interact with a wide array of disciplines: R&D, electrical engineering (software & hardware), mechanical engineering, program management, UI/UX design, manufacturing operations, and more.
• Prepare and manage materials for development activities of dimmable products.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

• Attention to detail - ensuring information is complete and accurate; following up with others to ensure that agreements and commitments have been fulfilled.
• Problem solving - defining a problem, determining the cause, identifying, prioritizing and selecting alternatives for a solution, and implementing a solution.
• Communicating effectively - developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey clear understanding, taking into account the unique needs of different audiences.
• Maintaining a high level of honesty, integrity, and confidentiality with respect to company matters.
• Complying with all Company policies and procedures, safety regulations, company safety policies and safely perform all duties, including but not limited to, promoting a safe workplace.
• Experience working with a variety of engineering or technical-related fields, disciplines, practices, and procedures.
• Experience working with Agile workflows and other Product Management concepts & tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace or a related field.
• 2+ years of relevant work experience in engineering or product management.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.