Job Description

As a Software Product Manager, you will work closely with engineers and designers to lead our strategy and guide software experiences from conception to launch. You will help craft our user-facing narrative and work with marketing and communications teams to tell it to the world. You’ll ensure that users have the highest quality experience possible on their Bose devices.

Sound is our superpower. Bose’s mission is to think of better solutions, create better products, and help people enjoy the things they love. Everything we do supports this mission and points us forward. It started when Dr. Bose founded the company in 1964 and continues today with innovative, passionate employees around the globe. Our Product Management team combines the best of Software and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user’s interaction with sound more seamless, immersive, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to hear the world around us, advancing what our devices can enable users to do in their homes, on the go, or in their cars, or improving interaction methods, the Bose Product Management team is making people’s lives better through innovative technology.

Bose is searching for a customer-centric Software Product Manager passionate about delivering the best experiences to users in the home and on the go.

With a focus on software experiences for our consumer audio portfolio, you know what it takes to deliver exceptional software experiences in a competitive market.

You will set the vision and strategy for platform-wide consumer experiences.  You will with Product Line Managers to break down their vision of the future into a continuous series of software releases, design to co-envision what the future of interaction and sound design looks like, engineering to identify what to build, and our world-class research team to invent the future. In close collaboration with these various teams, you will lead the implementation of the software roadmap, empowered to decide how to best meet our goals that maximize the value and quality of our software experiences.

To succeed in this role, you must have superb communication skills. The key to your success will be your ability to marry creativity with analytical skills, to break down complex ideas into smaller actionable tasks to deliver early and often. Your can-do attitude, creativity, intellectual curiosity, collaborative style, capacity to juggle conflicting priorities, and ability to drive clear decisions amid uncertainty will unlock your potential. 

Responsibilities:

• Own a complex set of projects and be accountable for both execution and setting direction for their projects.
• Build broad consensus across multiple product teams within the Product management team on overall product direction and influencing other teams’ projects accordingly.
• Define solutions for complex user needs and be perceived by team members in both Design and Engineering as not just a facilitator but a full partner/leader in innovation.
• Use a high-level perspective to define goals and create a vision for cross-functional development teams.
• Build a platform strategy that enables us to deliver killer experiences now and long into the future. 
• Translate the software roadmap into well-defined features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Clarify, document, and communicate use-case and customer requirements to the software engineering team.
• Drive final resolution on technical approaches where trade-offs impact the platform capabilities, priority, and delivery schedule of teams across technical disciplines.
• Reinforce customer value and whole-product thinking when driving cross-functional requirements decision-making.
• Break down complex concepts into a set of end-to-end user experiences optimizing for delivering early and often.
• Operate in an iterative development environment and continuously review business needs, refine priorities, outline milestones and deliverables, and identify opportunities and risks.
• Prioritize and maintain the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing stakeholders’ requirements.
• Use data, insights, and fast feedback to discover quality through experimentation.
• Partner with organizational stakeholders to inform product vision, Go to Market strategy, features, and prioritization.

Minimum Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in product management, consulting, co-founder or related technical role
• 3 years of experience building and shipping technical products
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience
• Experience driving elements of the product development lifecycle such as product vision, go-to-market strategy, driving requirements, and product launch

Preferred Requirements:

• Master’s degree in business administration (MBA), Computer Science, or a related field is desirable.
• Experience with cross-functional hardware and software development,
• Customer-focused with a systems-engineering mindset with an eye toward platforming. 
• Experience working in an agile software environment. 
• An independent professional who can lead projects from start to finish on tight deadlines.
• Experience shipping ML-based features for mobile devices or other consumer electronics
• Knowledge of programming
• Demonstrated ability to gather user requirements and convert them into a winning product outcome
• Ability to think strategically and execute methodically
• Excellent user experience intuition, with demonstrated success in inventing innovative and user-friendly products, especially in the consumer software domain

Bose is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. For additional information, please review: (1) the EEO is the Law Poster (http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf); and (2) its Supplements (http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm). Please note, the company’s pay transparency is available at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/pdf/EO13665_PrescribedNondiscriminationPostingLanguage_JRFQA508c.pdf. Bose is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the application or employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.