Position Title: Product Area Manager - Data Based Services

Duration: Contract

Location: Gothenburg, Sweden

Description of the assignment

• As a Product Area manager within the Digital Cockpit & Data services Department, you will lead a cross functional team in a fast-pacing environment.
• With a high business focus, you will drive the development of key technologies and product roadmap for your area.
• You will initiate and drive strategic collaboration with key partners/suppliers.
• You are responsible for prioritise the roadmap; reassure a competitive offer with a successful impact on data monetisation plan and OKRs.
• The Product area manager needs to have a broad understanding of the relevant areas, processes, and technology within Digital Cockpit: Infotainment, connectivity, entertainment, phone, media, voice, LLM. High focus on Data as a Service and its connection to an off board data platform.

Role Overview:

• Leader & Driver of product content definition activities
• Owner of the Data Based service team's overall work backlog and product roadmap.
• Lead strategic collaboration with third-party suppliers.
• Take part of and support the development teams in the daily work where needed.
• Responsible for breaking down business strategies into success targets (OKRs and KPIs) within area.
• Plan and allocate resources according to roadmap.
• Coordinate and lead a cross functional team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategy and Roadmap Development
• Business Case Development
• Product Development and Execution
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Stakeholder Management
• Market Analysis and Competitive Intelligence

Qualifications and skills required for the role

• Proven Customer understanding: understand needs and pain points of private vehicle-, fleet owner-, and end user customers.
• Business & Market experience: contribute to increased strategic awareness by understanding market dynamics and business opportunities.
• Proven Digital Cockpit / infotainment / Connected Car tech experience: understand technology trends to distil opportunities for products/services and to balance all requirement aspects of the product/service.
• Product Management within automotive and digital/infotainment (Business/User/Tech)
• Experience from Agile development and scrum methodology frameworks
• Scaled & Agile Development
• A minimum of 5 years of digital cockpit automotive experience
• Candidates with a strong background within Data as a Service (DaaS) is preferred.

Personal attributes

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to drive collaboration effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Flexible and adaptable mind-set
• Entrepreneurial, Result Oriented, Initiator, Team player.
• Business & tech Savvy, Customer Centric, Influencer, Problem Solver, Agile mind-set
• Analytical and strong problem-solving abilities.
• Committed and reliable.
• Proficient in English both written and spoken (Swedish is a bonus)