Project Description: Program Manager in the UK for an automotive software development business, especially in the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and broader automotive software development field, plays a critical role in bridging the gap between the product team and stakeholders, ensuring that the product vision is correctly translated into development tasks. This role demands a unique blend of skills and responsibilities, emphasizing excellent communication, a structured approach, and a strong technical background. The ideal candidate needs endless curiosity and can pair a global mindset with locally relevant execution. You should be a gritty problem solver with a never-give-up attitude and a self-starter who can think of out-of-the-box solutions. The successful candidate will be a team player and display a balance of hard and soft skills, including the ability to respond quickly to the Client's changing needs. The candidate must be ready to work onsite in the UK OEM office (Gaydon) and travel regularly to India.
Responsibilities:
1. Strategic Client Communication and Relationship Building: Takes proactive in communicating with current and potential clients, understanding their needs, challenges, and strategic objectives. Builds and maintains strong client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor in automotive software development, specifically focusing on ADAS technologies.
2. Proactive Business Development/Upsell: Integrates client feedback into product development processes more strategically, ensuring that the product evolves in ways that enhance client satisfaction and open up new business opportunities.
3. Backlog Management and Prioritization: Assists in managing the product backlog, ensuring it is appropriately prioritized in alignment with the product strategy and stakeholder needs.
4. Technical Expertise and Guidance: Brings a strong technical background in Automotive Low-level Software and automotive software development, providing technical guidance to the development team.
5. Stakeholder Engagement and Addressing Customer Requests: Engages with stakeholders to gather feedback on product releases and iterations, ensuring user and customer feedback is incorporated into future development cycles.
6. Project Coordination and Agile Practices: Ensures that agile practices are followed and adapted as necessary to meet project and organizational needs.
7. Collaboration with Sales and Marketing Teams: Collaborates closely with sales and marketing teams to ensure the product messaging is coherent and compelling to target markets.
Mandatory Skills Description:
Soft skills: Experience in a multicultural environment, excellent communication skills, experience in matrix org setup, solid team player, structured mindset and sharp reporting.
Hard skills: Low-level SW technical background (CAN, SOME/IP, UDP, Autosar Classic BSW, Architecture understanding), ADAS Planning, Gantt charts, Jira, Excel.
Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
Low-level SW testing understanding, quality management, ASPICE, ADAS background.
Languages:
English: C2 Proficient
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