Sr. Technical Specialist Product Management

The role

The Senior Technical Specialist, Product Management translates product strategy and customer needs into executable product definitions. This person defines product attributes, features, and requirements while partnering with Engineering, Design, and other functions to ensure alignment with business objectives.

What you will do

• Translate portfolio strategy and business objectives into vehicle, autonomy, software and mobility-product concepts.
• Define target customers, personas, use cases, and competitive positioning.
• Develop and maintain the hierarchy of customer requirements, product attributes, and product requirements.
• Partner with Engineering to translate customer-facing attributes into technical targets.
• Define feature content and develop equipment and feature strategies.
• Support definition of trim hierarchy, package strategy, and product differentiation.
• Translate market and competitive intelligence into actionable product targets.
• Evaluate proposed changes to attributes and features against the approved product proposition.
• Own and maintain authoritative product-definition documentation.
• Partner with Finance and Manufacturing to ensure product targets are achievable within business-case assumptions.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Product Management, Design, Economics or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in automotive product planning, product management, vehicle engineering, vehicle programs, strategy, systems engineering or related disciplines.
• Experience defining or developing vehicles, vehicle systems, software-enabled products or other complex customer-facing products.
• Strong understanding of vehicle attributes and the relationship between customer requirements, competitive positioning and engineering targets.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex product trade-offs involving customer value, technology, cost, investment, timing, quality and feasibility.
• Experience working across both technical and commercial organizations.
• Strong analytical, structured problem-solving, product-definition and requirements-management capabilities.
• Experience developing product requirements, feature strategies, product roadmaps or customer-facing product definitions.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Excellent written, verbal and executive communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with EVs, software-defined vehicles, connected services, ADAS or autonomous technologies.
• Experience with product benchmarking, customer research, feature-value analysis or competitive target setting.
• Experience supporting executive product reviews or major investment decisions.
• Familiarity with systems-engineering and requirements-management methodologies.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• life and disability coverage
• paid time off
• paid holidays
• paid sick leave
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Hourly/non-exempt employees accrue up to 120 hours paid time off
• salaried/exempt employee accrue up to 160 hours paid time off
• equity program
• discretionary annual cash incentive program

About the company

Lucid is creating exceptional mobility experiences through innovation to drive the world forward. They use proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture to build award-winning vehicles.