Product Manager

Apex.AI is seeking a talented Product Manager to join our Product team in Europe. In this role, you will be responsible for working with our Engineering team to implement features and enhancements based on customer feedback and communicating the timeline and roadmap to our customer-facing team. In addition to internal product work, you will collaborate with Marketing and Business Development to leverage data and market research to influence and drive product development. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing product team and collaborate cross-functionally to position Apex.AI’s offerings as the products of choice for software-defined mobility systems.

This role is located in our Berlin, Munich, or Stuttgart offices. This role can also be located in our Gothenburg, Sweden office. Current work authorization in the respective country is required.

• Inbound product management:
• Obtain input and feedback from documented customer and sales meetings, and support issues about product and feature requests and opportunities
• Derive and test hypotheses by defining prototypes and MVPs to understand what is valuable to customers
• Gather, analyze, prioritize and document product requirements and manage the feature backlog
• Coordinate and review milestones and features with the release manager
• Find, manage and negotiate with product-related partners and suppliers
• Manage external and internal trials, and ensure the business is ready to start selling
• Outbound product management:
• Research and gather market data, expert opinion, and insights
• Conduct competitor research and analysis, including benchmarking and tracking competitor activities
• Create and run launch and go-to-market plans, train sales, marketing, and support
• Develop product presentations and FAQs, and contribute to marketing content such as explainer videos, white papers, etc.
• Provide sales support, e.g., by attending sales calls, presenting at user groups, and creating and contributing to webinars

• A Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 10 years of professional experience or equivalent experience
• 5 years of proven relevant experience in the automotive industry as a product manager, product owner, or another automotive software product role, ideally in a leading position
• A solid understanding of autonomous driving and automotive software, including but not limited to AUTOSAR, and how it is used by automotive companies
• A relentless drive for understanding how features and systems work
• Proven skills in spotting trends from disparate discussions and mapping these trends to a product vision (roadmap)
• The ability to switch contexts often and manage fluctuating priorities
• Proactive and ‘see work, do work’ attitude, with high attention to detail
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

About Apex.AI

Apex.AI is a Palo Alto, Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich and Gothenburg-based company that is developing breakthrough safe, certified, developer-friendly, and scalable software for mobility systems. ​Our software products are based on proven open-source software, such as ROS or Eclipse iceoryx, so that we don’t spend time redeveloping what already works. Instead, we fork software that has been developed and proven in use by large developer communities. We then add what is missing: Functional safety, flawless performance, and support for application in commercial and safety-critical products. In order to do so, we have developed a proprietary process to rework open-source software in record time such that it conforms to the highest requirements of the applicable functional safety standard.

Distinguished by our experienced and agile team, we bring in the right pedigree: Expertise in modern software engineering to build software that scales to massive systems, leading know-how in software functional safety to make software reliable, experience bringing software to market so that we know what to takes to build actual products, and twenty-plus years of experience building autonomous systems so that we can take the perspective of our customers and know their needs. 

We launched our award-winning first product Apex.OS after three years in 2020 and have taken it through certification in record time for launch in 2021. We have more in the pipeline to revolutionize the use of software in the automotive industry.