Sr. Staff Product Planner

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies • Palo Alto, CA

1d • $213,000 - $292,950 • Hybrid

About The Position

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between Rivian and Volkswagen Group focused on technology for software-defined electric vehicles, including operating systems, zonal controllers, cloud, and connectivity solutions. The Product Planning team member works closely with the joint venture and its brands to clarify requirements, statements of work, and user stories across supported vehicle programs. The role helps achieve requirements-maturity milestones, keeps joint-venture scope focused on high-impact initiatives, and provides leadership for involved teams. This is a flex role requiring three days a week in either the Palo Alto or Irvine, California office.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of experience in product management, planning, or strategy within a technology-driven industry.
• Proven success developing and executing impactful product strategies.
• Self-driven, proactive approach to establishing processes and advancing initiatives.
• Strong market analysis, financial acumen, and strategic thinking skills.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
• Experience leading strategic initiatives and influencing stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• MBA.

Responsibilities

• Manage statements of work and the order book, including change management.
• Align with lead product lines on statement-of-work content and assess feasibility with technical input from program management.
• Manage the joint venture’s overall order book, including delivery cadence and scope.
• Approve Code/Climb statements of work in committees.
• Collect change requests from Code, Climb, or within the joint venture.
• Assess change requests for technical, financial, quality, and timeline impacts against the current order book.
• Establish and oversee a change control board to track, document, and decide on change requests.
• Maintain ownership of master statements of work and gather stakeholder input when statements of work are jointly written by the joint venture.
• Align with product lines on the need for new statements of work, including their type.
• Maintain the user story database and ensure user stories are documented, current, and initiated for new features.
• Ensure user-story methodology is consistent, including for cross-cutting regulatory and safety requirements.
• Ensure user stories are complete in relation to the existing feature list and statements of work.
• Determine Code/Climb-differentiating user stories as a foundation for specific developments and intellectual property.
• Align with the Feature Excellence Team and feature champions to ensure user stories use the right methodology and are complete.
• Conduct strategic variant management by deciding and tracking variant targets and maximum acceptable variant counts.
• Align on variants with product lines, brands, and EG leaders.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary.
• Eligibility for an annual company performance bonus program for full-time positions; payments are discretionary and not guaranteed.
• Eligibility for equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), subject to board approval and applicable plan terms and vesting requirements.
• Comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees, including health coverage, retirement savings, time off, and family planning programs; offerings vary by country.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior