Appealing Points
- Take on a critical program role that interfaces directly with Japanese OEMs on vehicle milestone planning and status reporting.
- Work with a global technology leader in the mobility space that focuses exclusively on cockpit electronics, the fastest-growing segment in the automotive industry.
- Lead a collaborative, high-performing product development team, and set the product vision and roadmap for the first year.
Annual Salary: ¥9 Million and above
Job Description
The Software Product Owner is a critical role for the program. It interfaces with Japanese OEMs on vehicle milestone planning and status reporting, and communicates deliverable status and risks to key stakeholders. The role also prioritizes the tasks of the Systems, SW and Validation teams in line with customer expectations. The employer is a global technology leader in the mobility space, focused on building cross-functional and cross-cultural teams, and the only automotive provider focused exclusively on cockpit electronics.
Job Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain a coherent plan across system, software and functional validation in a product backlog, using RTC work packages/vFIP for original scope and change requests (including supplier deliverables).
- Drive work item status updates in the central planning database (RTC work packages) as work is completed, and at least before the progress tracking meeting.
- Monitor progress of deliverables through periodic meetings using live-data dashboards, focusing on status, scope, priority and re-planning.
- Ensure lower-level work items (epics/stories/tasks) are created by involving the relevant system, software and functional validation stakeholders.
- Participate in SW scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, daily scrum (optional), sprint reviews and retrospectives.
- Provide progress updates on the status of systems, software and functional validation teams to project stakeholders (including the OEM) through vFIP.
- Facilitate dependency management between systems, software, functional validation and other disciplines (through PDTL).
- Escalate RIOs concerning system, software development and functional validation that may require next-level attention to the Chief Engineer / CRE Leader.
- Ensure discipline-specific strategies are created and maintained, mainly for system, software, functional validation and hardware (through PDTL).
- Drive process compliance and deliverable quality of the system, software and functional validation teams.
- Ensure requirement impediments and issues are resolved on time by involving the appropriate teams (including the OEM).
- Coordinate with the systems, software and functional validation teams on technical impact, estimates and schedule for PICs (customer change requests), supporting PDTL.
- Maintain the defined level of traceability and consistency between system, SW development and functional validation work products.
- Review test coverage and test status reports to ensure all applicable system and software requirements have been tested prior to release (test coverage includes all levels of the system "V" cycle).
- Lead SW release readiness and approval process.
- Triage, prioritize and forecast defects from customer or functional validation teams (in large projects, this may be done by a dedicated defect manager supporting the SW PO).
- Lead the resolution of time-sensitive showstopper issues from system, software and functional validation by raising alerts to the concerned teams.
- Manage non-functional requirements with work packages (e.g. software-related certification requirements such as Android Auto / CarPlay, and SW re-flash strategy definition).
Required Qualifications
- Solid experience of 8-10 years in embedded software development, preferably with an automotive background (Cluster/Infotainment/Platform software).
- Quick decision-making and negotiation skills.
- Excellent teamwork and customer relationship management.
- Communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Experience in problem solving (8D, 5-Why, Fish Bone, etc.) and process improvement.
- Strong analytical and debugging skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with Toyota.
- Formal Product Owner training and certification.
- Experience in product development using Agile methodologies.
Language Required: Business-level Japanese (JLPT N2 and above) and Business-level English.
About Company:
A global technology leader is advancing software-defined mobility and AI-powered innovation. From digital cockpits and EV technologies to Edge AI platforms for enterprise applications, the company enables intelligent, connected experiences across automotive and industrial environments.
Working in close collaboration with global automakers and suppliers throughout the entire product lifecycle—from initial concept and design through development and manufacturing—the organization delivers solutions that are adaptable across all powertrain platforms. This deep integration in the automotive ecosystem enables the creation of next-generation technology solutions that transform both conventional and electric vehicles alike.
. Skillset Required: Embedded Software Development, Product Backlog Management, Agile, Scrum, Stakeholder Management, Negotiation, Problem Solving, Debugging, Release Management, Defect Triage
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