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; More information about NXP in Germany LI-3da9