Senior Specialist, Product Management – E/E Architecture, Features & Requirements Management

Scout Motors • Charlotte, NC

13d • Onsite

About The Position

Scout Motors is hiring a Senior Specialist, Product Management, to own product management and roadmaps for cross-vehicle hardware and software features in E/E architecture. The role translates customer, market, and business needs into priorities and outcomes, and aligns product and feature requirements across vehicle, hardware, software, and E/E teams. The position owns feature lifecycle and change governance from definition and prioritization through launch and series evolution, and guides decisions involving scope, maturity, dependencies, cost, timing, feasibility, and portfolio impact.

The specialist aligns cross-functional teams and ensures feature, requirements, and architecture inputs are incorporated into the E/E timing plan. The role also manages software variants and complexity across domains, leads product decision forums, represents product priorities through launch and ramp-up, and serves as an interface to RVT and senior leadership. The position reports to the Director of Product Management, E/E & Vehicle Architecture.

The role is based at Scout Motors’ corporate headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, or in Charlotte, Novi, Michigan, or San Ramon, California. It requires 4–5 days per week in the office, in-person meetings and events, and occasional travel. This is a full-time, exempt position with a base salary and eligibility to participate in an annual performance bonus program. The initial base salary range is $95,000–$120,000; the initial California range is $104,500–$132,000.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of relevant experience in automotive, mobility, or another complex hardware/software product environment, owning major products or cross-functional workstreams.
• Proven product ownership across the feature lifecycle, from definition and prioritization through launch and series evolution.
• Strong understanding of automotive hardware/software dependencies and their impact on customer value, feasibility, timing, and readiness.
• Working knowledge of E/E and software-defined vehicle architectures, including interactions across vehicle functions, software, compute platforms, and hardware.
• Experience setting product priorities, roadmaps, and governance for complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience guiding software-enabled features through development, launch, and series readiness.
• Experience translating feature, requirements, and architecture inputs into integrated E/E timing plans.
• Experience with cross-domain software variant and complexity management, including cost, commercial, and statement-of-work impacts.
• Ability to assess customer, business, cost, timing, and portfolio impacts of product decisions.
• Sound judgment and decisiveness when customer needs, technical constraints, timing, cost, and stakeholder priorities compete.
• Ability to turn complex technical options into clear product recommendations and management decisions.
• Strong cross-functional influence across Product, Software, Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Commercial, and senior leadership.
• Proven ability to serve as a key interface to RVT on feature, requirements, and architecture topics.
• Clear, concise communication and the ability to align teams around product direction and decisions.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and relevant product, requirements, or lifecycle-management tools.
• Integrity, curiosity, resourcefulness, a positive attitude, and a growth mindset; comfort with change and flexibility in a fast-paced, high-growth environment; and a collaborative approach to achieving ambitious goals.

Nice To Haves

• Automotive series-development and launch experience.
• Ownership of a major cross-functional hardware/software product or workstream through series production.
• Experience with software-defined vehicles, E/E architecture, or software-enabled features.
• Experience aligning agile software delivery with automotive development milestones.
• Ability to present clear product trade-offs and recommendations to senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own product management and roadmaps for cross-vehicle hardware and software features, translating customer, market, and business needs into priorities and outcomes.
• Define and align product and feature requirements across vehicle, hardware, software, and E/E teams, based on customer value, product strategy, and program priorities.
• Own feature lifecycle and change governance, from definition and prioritization through launch and series evolution.
• Lead product trade-offs across feature scope, maturity, dependencies, and deviations, balancing customer value, timing, cost, feasibility, and portfolio impact.
• Align teams across Product, Software, E/E, Vehicle Engineering, IT, Quality, Manufacturing, and Commercial Operations on feature content, priorities, timing, and outcomes.
• Ensure feature, requirements, and architecture inputs feed into the overall E/E timing plan, with clear dependencies, priorities, and decision points.
• Drive software variant and complexity management across domains, defining allowed variants and assessing cost, commercial, and statement-of-work impacts.
• Lead cross-functional product decision forums for scope, changes, maturity, and launch readiness, ensuring clear decisions, ownership, and escalation.
• Represent product priorities for E/E architecture through launch and ramp-up, translating technical options and risks into customer, business, timing, and portfolio implications.
• Serve as a key interface to RVT and senior leadership on feature, requirements, and architecture topics, aligning decisions and impacts.

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, vision, and income protection insurance plans.
• 401(k) program with employer match and immediate vesting.
• 20 days of planned PTO, as accrued.
• 40 hours of unplanned PTO annually.
• 14 company or floating holidays annually.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders.
• Paid leave for bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave.
• Annual performance bonus program.
• Competitive compensation and benefits supporting physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed