Executive Director, Product Management, SBU Connectivity

About the role

What you'll do

• The SBU Connectivity Product Management Lead is the portfolio-level owner for product management, product evolution, go-to-market orchestration, and lifecycle value realization across SBU Connectivity. The role consolidates the former product-specific Business Lead responsibilities into one Product Management organization while maintaining distinct product lines for telematics and connectivity offerings and clear interfaces with the Global Business Lead for overall commercial/business ownership.
• You will translate market, customer, technology, and RFQ signals into a coherent portfolio roadmap, investment priorities, differentiated product propositions, and executable business cases. Drive a product-first operating model that increases reuse, reduces bespoke development, improves R&D return, and strengthens global market adoption through close partnership with NPI, Systems/Solution Architecture, Product Engineering, Global RFQ/Early Engagement, Global Delivery, Finance, Sales, and the Global Business Lead.
• You will lead a globally distributed team of product managers and regional GTM product managers and influences a broad matrix spanning engineering, architecture, delivery, finance, sales, marketing, and customer teams. Success requires enterprise-level judgment across multiple product lines, regions, customers, investment horizons, and technology generations.
• Manage the global Product Management organization spanning telematics/connectivity product lines and regional GTM product management in the Americas, Europe, Japan, India/APAC and other priority markets. You
• will build a strong product management discipline with common methods for roadmaps, business cases, product requirements, lifecycle governance, GTM readiness and portfolio decision making.
• What You Will Do
• Own Portfolio Product Management: Drive product evolution, 3–5-year roadmaps and lifecycle decisions across Connectivity, balancing customer value, technical feasibility, and profitability.
• Lead GTM & Regional Product Management: Convert market and Voice-of-Customer signals into product priorities, positioning, value propositions, sales enablement and launch readiness.
• Partner for Growth: Work with Global Business Lead, Sales and RFQ/Early Engagement to shape opportunities around scalable products and derivatives rather than bespoke solutions.
• Own Product Business Cases & Value Realization: Establish product investment logic across market potential, pricing, revenue, margin, R&D, lifecycle cost, reuse and ROI in partnership with Finance.
• Manage Product Performance: Track adoption, pipeline fit, reuse, financial contribution, roadmap execution and customer feedback, taking corrective action when expected value is not realized.
• Connect NPI to Product Ownership: Partner with NPI to mature new concepts and technology opportunities into validated product propositions with disciplined transition into portfolio ownership.

Nice to have

• MBA or advanced degree paired with a technical undergraduate degree.
• Experience leading telematics/connectivity portfolios spanning mobility segments.
• Experience with ecosystem partnerships, new business models, software/services monetization and global OEM commercialization.
• What Makes You Eligible
• You are willing to travel up to 30% domestic and 15% international travel.
• Due to the nature of global teams and customer base, you understand that flexibility in working hours is required.