Principal Product Manager, Automotive Supply Chain Intelligence

Description

The company supplies trusted automotive information that helps people build, sell, and own vehicles, and it uses data, AI, and analytics to shape the next generation of automotive intelligence.

The team focuses entirely on changing how the automotive industry works, and the progress made here helps the wider automotive ecosystem act faster and with more confidence.

Responsibilities

• Guide supply chain risk, sustainability, and compliance products through every stage, from early assessment and business case to requirements, launch, adoption, iteration, and eventual retirement or merger with other products.
• Build working knowledge of how automotive buying and supply chains operate, covering supplier visibility across several tiers, supplier and responsible sourcing risk, traceability, due diligence, and regulatory compliance.
• Act as the go-to expert on supply chain rules, turning them into product features, with a focus on laws and frameworks such as the UFLPA and the EUDR.
• Track changes in regulation, technology, and competitors to find new product openings in supply chain transparency, responsible sourcing, sustainability, trade compliance, and operational risk.
• Build and keep up a multi-quarter roadmap that explains why items are ranked as they are, what trade-offs shape the sequence, and which measurable outcomes matter, and share it with leadership and customers.
• Run structured research with automotive OEMs, Tier 1 to Tier 3 suppliers, procurement leaders, supply chain risk teams, sustainability groups, and compliance staff, then turn the findings into ranked problem statements, personas, and jobs-to-be-done.
• Shape product capabilities that let customers map multi-tier supply chains, rank supplier and location risks, check supply chains for compliance issues, gather supporting evidence, and watch how risk exposure changes.
• Write product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and data specifications, and work with engineering and data teams in an agile process to refine backlogs, clear up uncertainty, and decide scope under real limits.
• Work with UX and design to create workflows that users can finish quickly even at large scale.
• Work with commercial, marketing, and customer success teams on positioning, packaging, pricing input, launch readiness, enablement content, and adoption plans, and help with renewals, escalations, and key customer accounts.
• Set and track product success measures, such as adoption, retention, workflow completion, time to insight, regulatory readiness, and commercial results, and use them to guide roadmap choices.
• Keep watch on the competitive and regulatory landscape and recommend where the product should expand, integrate, or form partnerships.
• Speak for the product externally at customer workshops, advisory sessions, methodology talks, conferences, and industry forums.
• Help make the product a trusted source of supply chain intelligence that moves customers from reacting to supplier risk toward monitoring, due diligence, and mitigation before problems occur.

Requirements

• Required: Full professional command of spoken and written English, sufficient for every part of the role.
• Required: A bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, engineering, economics, or a closely related field.
• Required: 2+ years of product management experience, ideally building B2B software, SaaS, data, analytics, or workflow tools.
• Required: Proven knowledge of supply chain management, procurement, supply chain risk, responsible sourcing, sustainability, trade compliance, or a closely related discipline.
• Required: Working knowledge of global supply chain regulation such as the UFLPA and CSDDD, including how those rules become supplier due diligence, traceability, screening, documentation, and reporting needs in practice.
• Required: A record of turning complex business, regulatory, and customer requirements into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, and priorities.
• Required: Solid customer research experience, including making sense of unclear needs from several stakeholders and turning them into scalable product capabilities.
• Required: Comfort making data-driven decisions, including setting success metrics, reading usage and performance data, and weighing quantitative and qualitative evidence when setting priorities.
• Required: A track record of influencing research, engineering, design, commercial, marketing, legal, and operations teams without direct authority over them.
• Required: Strong written and verbal communication, including writing clear product narratives and presenting to senior internal and external audiences.
• Preferred: Previous automotive industry experience, or experience building products or solutions for automotive OEMs and suppliers.
• Preferred: A good grasp of automotive supply chain structure, including OEM and Tier 1 to Tier N supplier relationships, sourcing, localization, bill-of-materials links, geographic dependencies, and operational risk.
• Preferred: Exposure to automotive commodity areas such as raw materials and critical minerals, batteries and cells, electronics and semiconductors, powertrain and chassis systems, or interior and cabin systems.
• Preferred: Experience managing supply chain risk, such as supplier disruption, geopolitical, financial, sustainability, responsible sourcing, or regulatory compliance risk.
• Preferred: Familiarity with further rules and frameworks affecting global and automotive supply chains, such as CSDDD, CSRD, CBAM, sanctions and export controls, conflict minerals rules, forced-labor rules, and country-of-origin considerations.
• Preferred: Experience building or scaling B2B SaaS, data, or analytics products, including packaging, entitlements, and adoption strategies for enterprise customers.
• Preferred: Knowledge of APIs, data integration patterns, entity resolution, taxonomies, and connecting products to customer systems such as ERP, PLM, or supplier management platforms.
• Preferred: Relevant certifications such as CSCP, CPSM, CSCMP, CPP, or product management and agile credentials such as CSPO, SAFe PO/PM, or Pragmatic Institute.
• Preferred: An MBA or master's degree in a related field.

Conditions

Pay depends on location, local market conditions, skills, qualifications, experience, and internal equity, and the company aims to offer competitive, fair pay in line with local practice.

Pay is set to reflect local market conditions and individual contribution, and beyond base salary you may be eligible for incentive pay, long-term incentives, and a full benefits package, where applicable.

Benefits

• A competitive pay package with base salary and incentive opportunities where applicable.
• Full health and wellness coverage for employees and eligible dependents.
• Retirement savings plans, with company matching contributions where available.