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Senior Product Line Manager- Automotive Software

Citizenship Clearance Required

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY & THE TEAM

This role is a part of our Active Safety User Experience Segment at WindRiver. This is an exciting, high impact role for a Principal Product Manager with a passion for mission critical software who seeks to impact customers globally.

Responsibilities

As a member of Edge Product Management team, you will be the advising products' direction as it pertains to the automotive market, specifically ADAS, IVI, and fusion systems.

You will collaborate with the rest of the Product Management team who works horizontally on VxWorks, Helix Platform, Wind River Linux LTS and eLxr to ensure that the technical and business justifications are documented and understood. To that end, you will aggregate input from external customers, sales, market research, fellow product managers, partners, etc., to execute against the broad product strategy and drive product truth. You will be the single threaded leader for the auto market and own the automotive roadmap and its rationalization, understanding the competitive landscape, to ensure revenue growth. You will work in close partnership with Aptiv stakeholders, and experienced Product Management, Engineering, Sales teams..

About you

You are a Principal Product Manager or similar with experience in automotive software, complex platforms, middleware, and associated tools and technologies.

Qualifications & Experience

• A combined 10+ years of experience at a Tier 1 or OEM working on software stacks with an RTOS or Linux.
• Strong familiarity with ISO 26262 and ASPICE.
• Effective Product Management skills including trend analysis, roadmap creation, prioritization and backlog, customer requirements gathering, market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM), etc.
• Ability to articulate automotive software trends.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and incomplete information.
• Demonstrated application of business rationalization against a technical product.
• Demonstrated experience writing requirements for engineering.
• Strong analytical abilities, with excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong collaboration mindset.
• Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field, MBA a plus. Bachelor's degree with suitable experience.

Minimal travel is required (5%).

Benefits

• Flexible home office! We offer the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule or 100% remote.
• Named Top Workplace for the 8th year in a row.
• Wind River's commitment to DEIB.
• 100% Employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance*
• Flexible Time Off policy* + 12 observed Holidays.
• 401K with company match.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) .
• Wellness Benefits through Unmind.
• varies by region and country

Compensation

The annual base salary range for this role's listed grade level is currently $170,000 to $200,000 plus a bonus for Colorado, New York, and New Jersey residents, and $188,000 to $220,000 plus a bonus for SF Bay Area, Greater Seattle, NYC, and Washington, DC, residents. Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, and 12 paid holidays

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY

Wind River is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Wind River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics.

To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

Security Clearance Requirements

Successful candidates must engage in a security clearance process in regards to their citizenship in order to perform fundamental job duties, as per applicable law. In particular, candidates with certain citizenship may not be able to perform such fundamental job duties. Currently, this includes citizens of the following countries: Belarus; Burma; China; Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Syria; Venezuela; Afghanistan; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Cyprus; Democratic Republic of Congo; Ethiopia; Eritrea; Haiti; Iraq; Lebanon; Libya; Russia; Somalia; South Sudan; Sudan; Zimbabwe. The security clearance process may take a significant amount of time to complete, and any offer of employment will be contingent on the candidate's legal ability to perform the fundamental job duties. Wind River is committed to meeting its obligations to candidates under applicable human rights law and privacy law in this regard.

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