Software Project Manager, Middleware

At Bose Corporation, we believe sound is the most powerful force on earth — and for over 60 years, we have been a company built on innovation, excellence, and independence. Privately owned, fiercely customer-focused, and driven by our values, we continue to lead industries and transform lives through sound. Today, Bose Corporation is entering an exciting new era. Across multiple global Business Units and Global Functions, we are shaping the future of audio technology, automotive, luxury, and premium experiences.

We invite you to join us in this transformation.

Bose is seeking a Software Program Manager – Application Middleware to help define, develop, and deliver the software capabilities that enable the next generation of Bose products and experiences. Application middleware sits at a critical intersection in our software architecture—connecting applications and experiences with the underlying platform, operating system, services, connectivity, and device capabilities. The quality of this middleware platform directly impacts how quickly our teams can innovate, integrate new experiences, and deliver reliable products to customers.

This role combines software program management with product management of middleware capabilities. You will partner closely with software architects, engineering leaders, developers, product managers, systems teams, and application teams to translate product and developer needs into a clear middleware roadmap and drive that roadmap through execution and release. You will be both an orchestrator and a platform advocate: creating clarity across complex software dependencies while ensuring that the middleware platform evolves around the needs of the teams and products that depend on it.

This is a highly cross‑functional role with the opportunity to influence how software capabilities are defined, prioritized, developed, integrated, and delivered across Bose.

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of application middleware capabilities, from requirements and architecture through development, integration, validation, and release.
• Partner with application teams, product managers, architects, and engineering leaders to understand customer and developer needs and translate them into a clear middleware roadmap, requirements, and priorities.
• Drive alignment across middleware, application, platform, embedded software, systems, and product teams, proactively managing dependencies, risks, tradeoffs, and critical decisions.
• Own and prioritize the middleware backlog, balancing near‑term product commitments with longer‑term platform investments, reuse, scalability, technical debt, and developer experience.
• Establish clear milestones, integration plans, release criteria, and operating mechanisms that create transparency and accountability across teams.
• Serve as the connection point between product intent, software architecture, and engineering execution, facilitating decisions when technical constraints, product priorities, and schedules compete.
• Measure and continuously improve the effectiveness of the middleware platform through developer feedback and outcomes such as adoption, quality, reliability, performance, reuse, and integration efficiency.

You are a systems thinker who enjoys working at the intersection of technology, product, and execution. You understand that successful middleware is more than a collection of software components; it is a product used by other developers to build differentiated customer experiences. You are comfortable working with software architects and engineers on technical topics while also engaging product leaders on priorities, customer value, and roadmap decisions.

You naturally bring structure to ambiguity.…