Senior Specialist, Product Management – E/E Architecture, Features & Requirements Management

The role

This person will own the product management and roadmap for cross-vehicle HW/SW features. They will define requirements across vehicle, hardware, software and E/E teams to align with product strategy.

What you will do

• Own the product management and roadmap for cross-vehicle HW/SW features
• Define and align product and feature requirements across vehicle, hardware, software and E/E teams
• Own the feature lifecycle and change governance
• Lead product trade-offs across feature scope, maturity, dependencies and deviations
• Align cross-functional teams on feature content, priorities, timing and outcomes
• Ensure feature, requirements and architecture inputs feed into the overall E/E timing plan
• Drive software variant and complexity management across all domains
• Lead cross-functional product decision forums for scope, changes, maturity and launch readiness
• Represent product priorities for E/E architecture through launch and ramp-up
• Serve as a key interface to RVT and senior leadership

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in automotive, mobility or another complex HW/SW product environment
• Proven product ownership across the feature lifecycle
• Strong understanding of automotive HW/SW dependencies
• Working knowledge of E/E and software-defined vehicle architectures
• Experience setting product priorities, roadmaps and governance for complex cross-functional initiatives
• Experience guiding software-enabled features through development, launch and series readiness
• Experience translating feature, requirements and architecture inputs into integrated E/E timing plans
• Experience with cross-domain software variant and complexity management
• Ability to assess customer, business, cost, timing and portfolio impacts of product decisions
• Sound judgment and decisiveness
• Ability to turn complex technical options into clear product recommendations and management decisions
• Strong cross-functional influence

Nice to have

• Automotive series-development and launch experience
• Ownership of a major cross-functional HW/SW product or workstream through series production
• Experience with software-defined vehicles, E/E architecture or software-enabled features
• Experience aligning agile software delivery with automotive development milestones
• Ability to present clear product trade-offs and recommendations to senior leaders

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with employer match and immediate vesting
• 20 days planned PTO, as accrued
• 40 hours of unplanned PTO
• 14 company or floating holidays, annually
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
• Paid leave for bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave

Before you apply

• Applicants must be 18 years of age or older
• This role is not eligible for remote work in New York City

About the company

Scout Motors is an iconic American brand electrifying and digitizing rugged SUVs and trucks. The company empowers inclusive and entrepreneurial teams to innovate.