Senior Product Manager - Software
Volkswagen Group · New York, United States · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteMarketingFull-time
Role Responsibilities
- Lead distinct product areas and drive executional excellence across cross-functional teams.
- Translate our customers’ needs into clearly defined technical requirements backed by data and comprehensive industry knowledge.
- Evaluate the market opportunities, define product roadmap, and launch/roll-out strategy to scale our solutions.
- Engage closely with the engineering and operations teams to inform decisions that balance timing, cost, features, and performance, while staying true to the product strategy and vision.
- Serve as a cross-functional liaison that bridges engineering, business, operations, and regulatory considerations to drive product decisions.
- Measure our success and improve our products using principled methods and metrics.
- Find innovative ways to accelerate our development, reduce risk, and improve the overall product experience; work with the company to implement these initiatives and fully realize them.
Qualifications
- Years of Relevant Experience: 7 - 10 years professional experience preferred
- Prior experience in Product Management preferred.
- Education - Required Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in computer science, engineering, physics, or a related field.
Skills
- Experience with the software systems underpinning our self-driving vehicles including: Perception, Prediction, Motion Planning, Motion Control, Cloud.
- Conceptual Thinking and Analytical Skills.
- Strong product sense and user empathy.
- Solid understanding of technical systems and architecture.
- Effectively work with others across a broad range of technologies, processes, and systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Belief in rigorous, high-quality engineering that produces tangible results quickly.
- Strong understanding of the software systems underpinning our self-driving vehicles or the willingness and ability to learn them quickly.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve strategic goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment, and to evolve product strategy based on research, data and industry trends.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Organizational and analytical skills.
- The ability to reason data into implications.
- A strong understanding of the logistics and operational components inherent in a transportation business at scale.