Position Title: Product Owner - Digital Assistant

Duration: Permanent

Location: Raunheim, Germany

We are currently seeking an experienced Product Owner - Digital Assistant to join our clients team in Raunheim, Germany. As the successful candidate, you will take end-to-end ownership of the Clients' digital assistant product for global markets outside of China. This includes managing multiple suppliers and sub-suppliers to ensure the delivery of premium connected infotainment solutions for the next generation of Client lifestyle vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and delivery of premium connected infotainment solutions for next generation of the Client lifestyle vehicles.
• Take end to end ownership of the Clients' digital assistant product (conversational interfaces and proactive assistance) for the global markets outside of China and ensure delivery with suppliers.
• Manage and steer multiple suppliers and sub-suppliers
• Review, create and maintain product, system and design.
• Collaborate with the Client and supplier UX/UI teams to deliver a premium user and customer experience.
• Define attributes for your domains and the overall infotainment system.
• Support the definition of validation activities, review validation results and drive issue resolution internally and with suppliers.
• Challenge the technical content and product definition under the aspects of performance and competitiveness.
• Identify gaps, propose improvement opportunities and drive their implementation.
• Ensure that launch quality is robust over lifetime and fulfilling customer expectations.
• Ensure compliance with market specific requirements and regulations (e.g. Europe, North America).
• Perform benchmark activities, analyse market and technology trends and present conclusions to the leadership.

Requirements

• Degree in electrical engineering, telecommunications, computer science, information technology or a related course of studies.
• 5-10 years of working experience in the infotainment field, preferably at an automotive OEM or Tier 1
• Experience as feature/product owner in the infotainment domain
• Technical expertise within multiple of the following infotainment domains: Speech Signal Processing, Voice- / Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding, Dialog Manager, Text Input, Virtual Assistants (e.g. Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri)
• Understanding of the overall infotainment domain, bringing a holistic view and awareness of the role of individual components and functionalities in the overall system context
• Android Automotive knowledge is desirable.
• Experienced working with and managing external supplier(s)
• Launch exposure and having seen through at least one complete development lifecycle from concept to series production for an infotainment system or sub-domain.
• Awareness of market specific requirements for a global infotainment product rollout (e.g. Europe, North America, Asia Pacific).
• Having completed at least one complete development lifecycle from concept to series production.
• High integrity and trust in all activities and communication.
• Enthusiasm and passion: self-motivated, solution driven and customer focused.
• Pro-active and self-organised.
• Excellent communicator with an open and structured mind-set.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to visit suppliers/partners and other Client facilities globally.
• Fluent in English
• Driving license