Product Manager ADAS

About the Role

Aptiv is seeking a qualified Technical Product Manager to support the Advanced Safety Software and Systems group. This role involves exploring new business opportunities and product offerings in ADAS. The ideal candidate is eager to learn, highly analytical, interested in technology, and a high-output team player. You will be instrumental in defining new products that improve everyday activities and work on challenging problems with a team that values growth and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Ownership: Serve as the expert within the product management team, guiding technical discussions, decisions, and product strategy for individual products.
• Financial alignment: Create and update robust product business cases, including required resourcing and revenue potential, aligned to the product roadmap under the guidance of senior team members.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with key stakeholders, including customers, Sales and Marketing, and Engineering, to ensure product development aligns with customer and market needs.
• Executive Communication: Assist in preparing product presentations for executive management and decision-making.
• Product Development Collaboration: Collaborate with Engineering to translate product vision into detailed technical requirements and specifications, ensuring the technical product development process aligns with the overall roadmap and business goals.
• Market Analysis: Conduct thorough market analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and challenges to inform product strategy and development. Manage product pricing under the guidance of senior team members.
• Cross-functional engagement: Identify product development challenges and engage in cross-functional discussions to unblock roadblocks.
• Technical Documentation and Communication: Create and maintain comprehensive technical requirements for products and clearly articulate them to non-technical stakeholders.
• Oversee the development roadmap of Advanced Safety products, including ADAS driving features (from L0 to L3), parking, mapping, and localization, as well as end-to-end, turnkey ADAS systems.
• Bring technical depth to the overall product vision and strategy through partnership with Product Management to create and execute the product roadmap.
• Assess market opportunity and resource requirements.
• Work closely with Product Marketing and Sales to drive commercial activities.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer challenges.
• Build a network with customers and internal technical leads to develop strategic plans and product requirements.

Your Role (Detailed Responsibilities)

• Define technical requirements in collaboration with Engineering and ensure alignment with customer needs.
• Evaluate technical concepts currently in the market and define innovative solutions that drive differentiation.
• Help develop and manage product roadmaps, ensuring product milestones are met.
• Lead technical analysis and research to guide product development needs and foster innovation in product design and functionality.
• Support data-driven analyses required for product decisions, including requirements definition, use case prioritization, and value proposition.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Familiarity with autonomous vehicle systems, integrated automotive technology stacks, and related concepts.
• Strong understanding of and interest in technical architecture, system design, and software development principles.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver technical responses to RFIs, RFQs, etc.
• Ability to travel, if required, including internationally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 0-5 years of experience in product management, management consulting, or a closely related role, with a focus on software or technology products.
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities, capable of effectively engaging with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the automotive industry, especially with ADAS and autonomous vehicle systems.
• Knowledge of automotive standards and protocols, such as ISO 26262, Functional Safety, ASPICE, Euro NCAP, and FMVSS.
• Experience with automotive software development cycles and testing methodologies.