Senior Ecosystem Product Manager- AI and Incubation Team

Senior Ecosystem Solutions Architect - AI and Incubation Team

ABOUT WIND RIVER

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability. The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years.

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers.

We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.

Wind River is looking for top talent to discover, create vision and build our next generation of products within its AI and Incubation team
. We have a strong foundation of products within the embedded and cloud software space to build on and take to the next level of technology with AI at the EDGE. This is your chance to get in on the ground floor of that journey and to build a business within Wind River and Aptiv (our parent company). If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and respect for individuals, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.

Wind River seeks an outstanding Senior Ecosystem Solution Architect to join our new elite AI and Incubation team. This pivotal role demands a rare blend of deep technical knowledge, strategic/business insight, and exceptional communication skills. The ideal candidate will drive the definition and creation of a joint solution between Wind River and our partners in the EDGE AI domain. You will report directly to the Vice President of AI and Incubation and work closely with the rest of the Product Management team in building our AI and forward looking business.

Travel will be required.

This role is mainly about managing our partnerships both from a technical and business perspective. You will be the key Wind River contact and at the center of the partner engagement for our EDGE AI product portfolio. It is multi-dimensional in the following key areas: partner product solutioning in both the ideation/definition/creation of a joint go-to-market product, technical requirement definition/management, demo/POC definition/execution, targeting customer and joint customer opportunities that bring value to Wind River, defining and negotiating partner agreements, and general partner management.

In addition, to EDGE AI products, you will position and provide support for Wind River’s portfolio from Wind River Edge products to Wind River cloud products as required within the AI and Incubation team. Your efforts will enable our partner to better sell solutions that include Wind River products and vice versa.

You must have experience in software engineering with a strong focus in embedded systems and/or EDGE AI technology. You must be capable of understanding the partners’ and end customers’ problems and whiteboarding solutions using our product offerings and services. You should also know and have lived through commercial software project development cycles and have a good understanding of project management. Some amount of travel will be required.

In your daily job you will:

• Overall:
  Manage the partner relationship in all aspects including both technical and business requirements.
• Technical Leadership:
  Act as the primary technical expert and become the partner’s trusted advisor and the Wind River solutions expert.
• Solution Architecture:
  Design…