China Experience Product & Partnerships Manager
About the job
- A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Five or more years of software product management experience.
- A sound understanding of software architecture.
- Experience interacting with customers, senior executives, and business leaders.
- Experience managing a software product or platform from definition through end of life.
- Strong financial acumen and experience developing business cases.
- Ability to effectively manage products in a matrix organization and drive results through indirect influence.
- Demonstrated experience working with internal business and legal stakeholders to craft licensing, joint development, and collaboration agreements with partner companies.
- Understanding of product planning, hardware and software product development, and launch; familiarity with these in business-to-business or automotive markets is a strong plus.
- Ability to establish and maintain key partnership engagements.
- Ability to work independently with self-initiative and autonomy.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to interact professionally with diverse stakeholders, customers, partners, business analysts, architects, and subject matter experts.
- Leadership, negotiation, critical thinking, problem-solving, organization, planning, and attention-to-detail skills.
- Experience delivering presentations to customers and leadership.
- Affinity for automotive and audio/video technologies and trends.
- Strong understanding of the motivations and incentives of all parties in negotiations.
- Highly polished writing ability and strong presentation and verbal communication skills.
- Define software platform requirements and capabilities that advance platform category strategy and deliver business value in collaboration with sales, marketing, engineering, and partners.
- Work with customer system/software architects or other subject matter experts to analyze platform building blocks, identify opportunities to reuse existing elements, and identify new building blocks and concepts for development or customer projects.
- Identify unique building blocks across customers and develop product configurations or other efficient approaches to meet different customer needs.
- Evaluate internal and external factors to articulate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for platform capabilities.
- Work with engineering to define major platform increments that support the platform vision and develop business cases demonstrating platform financial viability.
- Manage a backlog of platform increments to maintain and optimize platforms for new product experiences and customer requirements.
- Drive pricing and cost alignment so platform work supports financial targets.
- Maintain documents and tools that make platform capabilities visible and aligned with stakeholders.
- Support customer engagements and new business pursuits involving platform matters by gathering information, analyzing options, and influencing alignment with platform strategy.
- Identify and evaluate potential product and platform partners in the Chinese market.
- Report to global product and technology teams to connect regional and global technology strategy.
- Act as the primary point of contact for regional partners and maintain productive relationships through goal and strategy alignment.
- Define and manage a product roadmap for the Chinese market.
- Ensure platform needs are represented in automotive processes and update stakeholders on platform progress, challenges, and strategies.
- Collaborate with the global Partnerships team to connect regional and global technology strategy.
- Translate business goals, strategies, and visions into partnership opportunities.
- Scout for and establish relationships with new partners.
- Develop and manage trusted cross-functional relationships with assigned current partners, tracking progress toward mutually beneficial goals and milestones.
- Align partnership goals and specific partner projects with external partners and internal stakeholders.
- Negotiate and execute licensing and co-development contracts with current and new partners.
- Build relationships with Bose business leaders and product management, corporate development, legal and licensing, engineering, advanced development, and research teams to identify needs and opportunities for external technologies to enhance Bose product experiences.
- Coordinate partnership activities with sales and marketing colleagues as partnership activities go to market.
- Represent Bose to partners, champion projects internally, and collaborate with cross-functional teams from initial engagement through project launch.
- An MBA or other advanced degree.
- Automotive industry experience.
- Audio industry experience.
- Familiarity with product planning, hardware and software product development, and launch in business-to-business or automotive markets.
About the company
Bose creates premium audio products and technologies for consumers, cars, and professional venues. Its systems rely on psychoacoustics and in-house research to deliver features like noise cancellation and immersive spatial sound, used in headphones, soundbars, and integrated car audio. The company stands out through a strong, research-focused approach, diversified through direct-to-consumer sales, licensing, automotive partnerships, and professional installations, aided by an ownership structure that supports long‑term R&D. Its goal is to ensure sound is heard as it was meant to be, while growing leadership across consumer, automotive, and professional audio markets.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$430K
Headquarters
Framingham, Massachusetts
Founded
1964
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What believers are saying
- September 2026 launched Ultra Open Gen 2, Sport Open, and $99 wired ANC earbuds.
- September 29, 2026 Auracast support broadens Bose's ecosystem compatibility and upgrade path.
- Thom Browne collaboration and luxury brands McIntosh, Sonus faber expand premium pricing power.
What critics are saying
- Bose faces recurring patent suits; September 2026 dockets show Shenzhen Hongyinyue and Orange Connex.
- September 2026 firmware backlash showed feature removals can damage trust fast.
- Sony, Apple, and Nothing compress Bose's premium headphone margins; hardware commoditizes by 2027.
What makes Bose unique
- Bose still owns QuietComfort ANC and psychoacoustic tuning leadership.
- MIT-backed governance sustains research spending, not quarterly margin squeezing.
- Firelight FMOD acquisition, October 1, 2026, adds interactive audio software.
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