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 audio 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 audio 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, NRE’s, 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 NXP’s IC’s;
  

Your profile

To be successful in this role you have:

• BSc or MSc degree and at least 10 years of experience 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;
• Experience and affinity with audio features and products, preferably in the automotive industry;
• A good understanding of the semiconductor business;
• Experience in developing contracts and competitive positioning of T&C’s;
• 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;