Director of Product Management

Role Overview

• In close collaboration with the Japanese head of product management, define and maintain a unique global product strategy, roadmap and the associated communication & governance while supporting the Japanese market place, but also deeply considering the North American and European marketplace;
• Build and manage a diverse team of senior professionals in various specializations such as product management and planning, market analysis, user experience, business strategies, commercialization, etc to maximize their efficiency to deliver business results;
• Pro-actively deploy your strategies and leverage all possible resources both internally and externally to derive the proper set of features that will provide Arene with competitive advantages as a product while enabling Toyota into the world of Software-Defined Vehicles and keep its position of world leader in this new field considering its operations and product lines realities and constraints;
• Develop the internal and external network to enable Arene’s products penetration in Toyota group companies as a first step, to the J-OEMs as a second step and to the rest of the world then;
• Track feature development execution by engineering, identify risks, and take action to drive to results and meet the schedule engagements;
• Leverage the global geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders in your operations;
• Manage the investment by prioritizing features as well as balancing with non-functional requirements in order to enable Arene product line to produce solid financial performance in a software-driven business model, prioritizing safety and quality before profit;
• Balance competing factors (risk mitigation and issue resolution, dependency management, fastest vs best solution, ROI, etc);
• Develop and maintain a good partnership network within the Toyota group company and beyond to gather insights and needs creating trustful relationships without overindexing on product customization, keeping long term vision educating customers/stakeholders to bring them along;
• Provide inspirational leadership with active listening, empathy, inclusivity, and modeling company values to maximize the performance of teams and individuals;
• Support the business development as well as market influence activities over talks in major industry events, conventions, partners and potential customers representation, etc

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience delivering business results in a B2B environment similar to the one Arene has with a product line that has similar technology, costs structure and market complexity;
• Demonstrated experience leading teams on successful technology products;
• 15+ years of pertinent experience delivering and servicing complex products that integrate the human in extensive logical and physical elements;
• Experience in communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences;
• Demonstrated effectiveness in connecting business context and customer impact to business results;
• Proven experience is go-to-market strategies, business plans definition, strategic plan definition, partnership, complex commercial agreements, patents and M&A;
• Prior experience working directly with engineering teams;
• Experience working with automotive OEMs and/or tier-1 suppliers;
• Experience working in the automotive, aerospace or defence industries;
• Embrace the challenge of creating metrics, designing product roadmaps, and influencing a diverse set of stakeholders toward a common goal

Benefits

• Excellent health, wellness, dental and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• Flexible vacation policy
• Family planning and care benefits