Product Manager

**Forvia, a sustainable mobility technology leader**:
We pioneer technology for mobility experience that matter to people.

**Your mission, roles and responsibilities**:
As part of the FCE Software & Ecosystems Business Unit, the SaaP (Software as a Product) team specializes in building Software Products, and bringing them to the market, either by contracting directly with OEM or through alternative distribution channels, working with third party software vendor partners.

In this position, the Product Manager will be responsible for **executing our product strategy and roadmap** based on the existing product portfolio, as well as defining the output of our Innovation and Development teams and gathering feedback from the market.

We expect our Product Manager to travel to customers and tradeshows, leveraging her/his expertise positioning software products in a B2B environment.

With a hands-on approach to defining products and roadmaps and pitching them in front of customers, the Product Manager will work closely with Innovation & Development teams on the definition of products, with a focus on new products.

The Product Manager will also provide market insight to the global team and participate in the definition of the team’s orientations with respect to product definition, roadmap, promotion and selling activities.

**What you will do**:

- Help shaping the product roadmap by playing a key role in the definition of the product vision at the global scale, prioritizing features, communicating, and measuring its success, ensuring alignment with the company’s vision, strategy and existing technology.
- Deliver on new product definition, introduction, and product portfolio management based on your understanding of the market, driven by measurable metrics.
- Define measurable metrics for product quality, market penetration and overall results which you will use to report on a regular basis within the leadership team.
- Communicate with the SaaP team and advise on products strategy and licensing opportunities as well as general progress of your product activities.
- Animate the existing sales channels for our product portfolio with a focus on software products and their deployment at customers.
- Survey the market within our industry and assess competition landscape by networking with customers and partners including onsite visits, workshops, tradeshows, and events.
- Participate actively in all product roadmap activities such as writing requirements, gathering customers feedback, and overseeing marketing campaigns.

**Your Profile and competencies to succeed**:

- 5+ years of demonstrable experience in product management of software product, including product strategy, roadmap development, and feature prioritization with a track record of successful product launches and the ability to drive product innovation within a B2B environment in a startup or entrepreneurial role. Proven track record introducing new software products.
- Strategic planning, creative thinking, and on-time delivery
- Outstanding leadership and interpersonal communication skills
- Comfortable working as an autonomous contributor in a distributed team
- Strong English written and verbal communication skills.
- Willing to travel to customers and events regularly.
- Comfortable working in a start-up environment

**Pluses**
- Entrepreneurial experience
- Knowledge of display, image processing technologies, audio signal processing technologies, AI including GenAI, and camera and imaging systems
- Experience in ASIC/FPGA hardware products, real-time AI products
- Additional language: French, German, Chinese, Japanese

**We provide**:

- Hybrid Work
- Flex Vacation
- We offer a Flexible Vacation Policy. We recognize the importance of our employees' wellness and encourage our staff to take 4 weeks of vacation per year. If you need more, this can be approved by the GM, provided the project deadlines allow it.
- Generous Health Benefits & Pension Plan
- Learning environment
- In-house specialists in different fields that are ready to share their knowledge.
- A Technical Advisory Board of world-renowned experts Professors from top universities like Cambridge and Oxford working with us on a regular basis.
- Trainings, conferences, books. We want you to grow with us.
- Diverse environment
- We put a lot of effort in having a diverse workplace: Gender, race, ethnicity.
- Fun environment. Basically: We just enjoy working together

**What we can do for you**:

- At Forvia, you will find an engaging and dynamic environment where you can contribute to the development of sustainable mobility leading technologies.
- We are the seventh-largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in more than 40 countries which makes a lot of opportunity for career development.
- We welcome energetic and agile people who can thrive in a fast-changing environment. People who share our strong values. Team players with a collaborative mindset and a pa