Product Manager Remote Update

Join us as a Product Manager - Remote Update (m/f/d) in our Remote Update team on a shared journey that matters!

The Remote Update (OTA) Team enables reliable delivery of software and configuration updates to vehicles.

We own the end‑to‑end OTA landscape that allows vehicle software, features, and regulatory updates to be deployed safely and efficiently throughout the vehicle lifecycle.

Our focus is on ensuring that OTA updates can be prepared, delivered, and rolled out with high quality and reliability. By providing robust OTA services and clearly defined delivery standards, we enable continuous vehicle improvement while minimizing risk, downtime, and impact on the customer experience.

• Ensure reliable delivery of vehicle software updates across vehicle programs by coordinating the use of the update platform in line with defined standards and delivery processes.
• Drive cross‑team and cross‑ART prioritization to align update‑related work with vehicle releases and lifecycle needs.
• Work closely with the technical delivery teams to align roadmap, delivery scope, and operational constraints, ensuring a shared understanding of priorities and expected outcomes.
• Define and maintain clear responsibilities, interfaces, and handshakes between the update platform, technical delivery teams, and consuming ARTs.
• Ensure that remote update capabilities are applied correctly and consistently by consuming teams to achieve the intended delivery, quality, and safety outcomes.
• Monitor rollout execution and results, including update success rates, campaign performance, recovery behavior, and rollback effectiveness.
• Identify delivery risks, gaps, or misuse of update capabilities and collaborate with technical teams to address them early.
• Represent the remote update delivery perspective in cross‑ART planning, coordination forums, steering committees, and risk boards.
• Balance vehicle safety, availability, regulatory constraints, and customer impact when supporting rollout timing and delivery decisions.
• Promote a continuous delivery mindset within the vehicle ecosystem, together with technical teams, enabling frequent and reliable software improvements.

• Good understanding of remote software update architectures, including update strategies such as partial updates, delta updates, and campaign‑based rollouts.
• Knowledge of vehicle communication systems and connectivity architectures, and how they impact update delivery, reliability, and timing.
• Experience with backend orchestration and update pipeline concepts, including preparation, distribution, and coordination of update campaigns.
• Good understanding of cybersecurity, functional safety, and homologation constraints related to vehicle software updates.
• Ability to assess update risks and constraints, including vehicle availability, failure scenarios, and recovery options.
• Experience working in scaled agile environments, with skills in PI coordination, cross‑team dependency management, and roadmap alignment.
• Ability to balance technical feasibility, delivery risk, and customer impact when supporting update‑related decisions.
• Good communication skills, enabling effective coordination across ARTs, technical teams, and business units.
• Extensive hands‑on professional experience in a relevant field, with a proven track record of successfully delivering results in complex environments.
• Experience aligning technical delivery teams and consuming teams around shared goals, timelines, and expectations.
• A pragmatic, delivery‑oriented mindset, enabling effective collaboration with technical platform owners while focusing on outcome and execution.

• Competitive salary (including bonus)
• Hybrid work setup:
  Work from home or one of our offices – you and your team decide how often to meet, blending flexibility with collaboration!
• Flexible working hours and the possibility of flexible work arrangements depending on your needs (parenting, care work, volunteering, etc.)
• Budget and monthly expense allowance for home office setup
• Possibility of remote work from outside Germany for up to 6 weeks per year from over 35 countries – learn more in our blog!
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