Staff Product Manager - Entertainment
About The Position
Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is hiring a Staff Product Manager to own a significant share of its in-vehicle entertainment portfolio and expand it into new categories. The portfolio includes audio streaming, radio, audiobooks, video, and casting across vehicle platforms. The role owns the roadmap for its area, manages third-party partnerships, and takes new experiences from concept through release and in-market performance. It sits within the Infotainment Software organization and is a hybrid position based in Palo Alto, California, or Vancouver, British Columbia. The position reports to the Staff Product Manager for Infotainment & Connectivity and works closely with engineering, design, program management, and business development. The role defines product requirements and multi-quarter roadmaps, coordinates partner integrations and certification, drives cross-functional delivery and quality, and uses product metrics and customer feedback to guide prioritization. It also includes hands-on validation of features in development vehicles and on the bench.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
- At least 5 years in product management spanning consumer tech, digital media, or automotive industries; alternatively, 3–4 years in product management combined with 3–5 years in engineering, systems architecture, or a closely related technical discipline.
- Demonstrated ownership of a product area built on third-party integrations, including direct influence on external partner roadmaps and joint technical and commercial negotiations.
- Strong business development aptitude and proven executive relationship management skills.
- Track record of launching and operating consumer media, entertainment, or communications products at scale.
- Experience authoring technical product requirements and working directly with software engineering teams through the full development lifecycle.
- Experience defining and instrumenting product KPIs and using quantitative and qualitative customer feedback to prioritize a roadmap.
Nice To Haves
- Experience shipping software in an embedded or automotive environment, including over-the-air release cycles and hardware dependencies.
- History of launching a product category from 0 to 1 and scaling it from 1 to 1.x.
- Working knowledge of Android application architecture, media playback frameworks, content protection, and third-party application certification processes.
- Familiarity with gaming platforms, controller input, or real-time video communications.
- Experience with camera, microphone, and profile-level privacy, consent, and driver-distraction requirements.
- Hands-on technical fluency with debugging tools, log analysis, and crash reports.
Responsibilities
- Own a defined share of the in-vehicle entertainment portfolio end to end, from requirements through release and in-market performance.
- Define, scope, and launch entertainment and communications experiences that are new to the vehicle, from concept and feasibility through productization.
- Serve as day-to-day product owner for third-party content and technology partners; run joint roadmap sessions, align on integration architecture, and drive certification plans with business development and legal.
- Author product requirements, maintain a rolling multi-quarter roadmap mapped to software release cycles, and represent the portfolio in planning and executive reviews.
- Partner with application and platform engineering, audio, design, program management, privacy, and joint-venture product teams to sequence dependencies, resolve trade-offs, and hold committed dates.
- Set launch criteria, drive defect triage with engineering, and own portfolio quality escalations through resolution.
- Define portfolio KPIs and track them using product telemetry, owner surveys, service data, and customer feedback; use results to reprioritize.
- Validate features hands-on in development vehicles and on the bench, including reproducing and characterizing reported defects.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary.
- Eligibility for the 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
