Digital Product Owner – Seamless & Smart Energy - 37124999 (1231)

Join a globally recognised luxury automotive manufacturer driving the future of connected and intelligent vehicle experiences. As a Digital Product Owner - Seamless & Smart Energy, you will lead the delivery of innovative digital features and smart energy solutions, working across software, systems engineering, and customer experience domains. This is a high-impact role offering the opportunity to shape next-generation automotive technologies, manage complex stakeholder relationships, and deliver customer-focused digital products within a fast-paced, Agile environment.

Number of Positions: 1

Seamless and Smart Energy (S&SE) is responsible for the customer experiences within this theme. As the Digital Product Owner within the S&SE theme you will be responsible for co-ordinating the release of Value from all supporting Portfolio Epics and their respective owners in line with an agreed quarterly ambition.

You will collaborate across domains and work on problem-to-solution engineering, ensuring that Technologies, Services and Features are aligned with Modern Luxury, House of Brands and the Theme. In addition, you will manage the interface with Portfolio Epic / Capability owners and their delivery teams, working collaboratively to define and deliver the key work packages each Quarter.

Main Responsibilities

• Own the product backlog, ensuring it is up to date, prioritised and reflects stakeholder needs. Escalation where required.
• Overall plan alignment with respect to timing and delivery
• Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and development teams.
• Facilitate regular communication with internal and external stakeholders in order to align priorities and expectations.
• Manage competing priorities and negotiate with stakeholders to balance short-term needs with long-term goals.
• Responsible for the co-ordination and governance cadence of the Theme including QBR/BRP ceremonies and Theme level sprint showcases as required
• Collaborate across the Theme to ensure synergies are captured and dependencies are highlighted.

Skills:
Essential Requirements

• Competent in digital systems concepts - UX/I/architecture/VCDP/DCP
• Knowledge in all aspects of systems engineering: concept design, requirements authoring, logical and solution architecture, functional safety, cybersecurity and legal/regulatory compliance
• Wide, general understanding of automotive architecture, systems, software and features
• Knowledge of designing and architecting complex systems and architectures
• Proven knowledge of electrical/electronic automotive physical platform solutions
• Knowledge of HMI / app integration
• Understanding of closed loop control systems physical architectures including sensors, actuators
• Understanding of software architecture and operating systems (Autosar, QNX, Linux, Android)
• Knowledge of networking systems and protocols
• Project management, Leadership and planning skills are essential, along with good teamwork and excellent writing and verbal communication skills. Strategic thinking is also essential.
• Customer first mindset
• Good understanding of automotive industry, including competitor and market awareness
• Project management, Leadership and planning skills are essential, along with good teamwork and excellent writing and verbal communication skills. Strategic thinking is also essential.
• Able to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with longer term strategic view.

Desirable Skills

• Ability to rapidly understand the key concepts of the system of interest and to lead groups of subject matter experts to design and architect these systems
• Ability to resolve complex, cross functional and cross-domain systems engineering problems
• Experience operating inside an Agile framework
• Knowledge of programme delivery systems and lifecycles
• Competence in all aspects of systems engineering: concept design, requirements authoring, logical and solution architecture, functional safety, cybersecurity and legal/regulatory compliance

Education:
Degree or relevant equivalent experience.