The future starts here! Ready to join NXP in Software Product Management
As an Audio Software Product & Partner Manager you will be in partnership with both the Product Marketing Team and the R&D team to define drive and manage the roadmap of our automotive audio software products integral to the solutions strategy of our business.
Your responsibilities
As an Audio Software Product & Partner Manager you are responsible to:
- Build a strategy of software products and delivery plans aligned to the business needs drive the planning and execution with the R&D organization ensuring deliveries meet timing and customer functional expectations;
- Define the product requirements of our software products and deliverables;
- Be the customer face of our software products be able to discuss functionality and build product requirements from customer communication;
- Understand the major competitor real capabilities and their product strategy ensure a competitive capability is planned from NXP;
- Establish a fact/market based common understanding of our potential software value and develop the product marketing tools to allow our sales team to extract that value;
- Plan and manage our software sales and revenue strategy with the product marketing & business leaders;
- Drive the business strategies for alternative customer revenue models adders revenue sharing buy outs buy ins NREs software enabled hardware etc.;
- Manage the strategy and prioritization of software products with the R&D team working the tradeoffs required to meet our customer requirements and our strategies;
- Manage relationships and coordinate commercial / license discussions with the key SW partners share roadmaps keep them updated on our strategies and product timing;
- Understand and manage our software budget and spend with the R&D team ensuring optimum use is made of both internal and external resources;
- Manage a portfolio of software products with appropriate maintenance and warranty contracts with our focused customers;
- Work with the innovation teams to define and develop competitive and differentiating SW features and products fitting NXPs ICs;
Your profile
To be successful in this role you have:
- BSc or MSc degree and experienced in the software industry serving automotive or similar markets;
- Experience of the Automotive OEM software supply chain;
- Commercial experience of selling buying and/or managing software;
- Experience with the development of embedded software;
- A good understanding of the semiconductor business;
- Experience in developing contracts and competitive positioning of T&Cs;
- Experience of software product management through all the lifecycles (creation to maintenance);
- Ability to develop & present successful business plans to senior management;
- Track record of significant business development & long-term relationship building;
- Partner management developing win-win relationships with trusted partners;
Furthermore you have:
- Strong communication & influencing skills;
- Experience of working in a multi-national company with global customers would be an advantage;
- Able to travel when required to our customers or partners;
- You are fluent in English;
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