The Senior Product Manager will lead Cerence's xUI product management for Asian OEMs, with a primary focus on China, Japan, Korea, and India. This high-visibility role involves driving adoption and launch of AI voice assistant and agentic experiences in vehicles, working closely with automotive OEMs and cross-functional internal teams.
What You'll Do
- Document product requirements, user stories, and artifacts to provide clear guidance for the product development process.
- Define a customer and market driven strategy that sets the direction and guides our investments.
- Communicate the proposed strategy and value to key stakeholders and define some high-level objectives.
- Translate product requirements into semantic specifications and collaborate closely with engineering teams to ensure effective implementation and alignment with customer needs.
- Develop and communicate compelling product roadmaps, refining product positioning and messaging to differentiate our offerings and establish market leadership.
- Serve as the internal and external product expert, providing comprehensive knowledge and support.
- Conduct thorough market research to gain valuable insights into user and OEM customer needs.
- Engage with sales and customers to gather market requirements, and prioritize them based on strategic alignment and business objectives.
- Provide support to the sales team through training programs, tools, and resources, enabling them to effectively communicate the value of our products, initiate customer conversations, and accelerate the sales cycle.
- Collaborate with sales representatives to devise sales strategies and support them in customer meetings.
- Proactively track competitors, continually updating information on their strengths and weaknesses.
- Conduct in-depth analysis to identify opportunities and threats and propose offensive and defensive strategies to maintain our competitive edge.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of product experience managing complex technology products, ideally in the AI space.
- Strong communication skills - English & Chinese languages skills required (both spoken & written).
Nice to Have
- Entrepreneurial and creative, with strong technical depth and ability to influence externally and internally.
- Japanese language skill preferred (both spoken & written).
- Past automotive experience is preferable but not a must-have.
Benefits & Compensation
- Opportunity to work in an exciting, fast-paced environment to shape entire industries.
- Be part of meaningful innovation in a rapidly growing industry.
- Join a passionate, dedicated, global team.
- Work with prestigious automotive brands globally.
- Exposure to cutting-edge AI voice and agentic products.
- High visibility role with regular face time with automotive OEM leadership.
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams including R&D, Marketing, Sales, Sales Engineering, Legal, Bizdev, and executive team.
- Value placed on thought leadership and mentorship.
Work Mode
Local-country positions available in China, Japan, Korea, and India.
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