Principal Product Manager
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Lead product management for Smart Home and Media AI agents across automotive and non-automotive verticals at Cerence. Drive successful adoption and launch in collaboration with global OEMs and cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities:
- Document product requirements, user stories, and artifacts to provide clear guidance for the product development process.
- Define a customer and market driven strategy that sets the direction and guides our investments.
- Communicate the proposed strategy and value to key stakeholders and define some high-level objectives.
- Translate product requirements into semantic specifications and collaborate closely with engineering teams to ensure effective implementation and alignment with customer needs.
- Develop and communicate compelling product roadmaps, refining product positioning and messaging to differentiate our offerings and establish market leadership.
- Serve as the internal and external product expert, providing comprehensive knowledge and support.
- Conduct thorough market research to gain valuable insights into user and OEM customer needs.
- Engage with sales and customers to gather market requirements, and prioritize them based on strategic alignment and business objectives.
- Provide support to the sales team through training programs, tools, and resources, enabling them to effectively communicate the value of our products, initiate customer conversations, and accelerate the sales cycle.
- Collaborate with sales representatives to devise sales strategies and support them in customer meetings.
- Proactively track competitors, continually updating information on their strengths and weaknesses.
- Conduct in-depth analysis to identify opportunities and threats and propose offensive and defensive strategies to maintain our competitive edge.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of product experience managing complex technology products, ideally in the AI space.
- Experience building AI agents for diverse use cases is highly preferable.
- Strong technical depth in the AI space and ability to influence externally and internally.
- Skilled in driving and moderating cross-functional teams.
- Creative and passionate problem solver committed to customer innovation.
- Team player with hands-on mentality, resilience, and goal-oriented mindset.
- Strong English communication skills (both spoken & written).
- Chinese or Japanese language skills preferred (both spoken & written).
Benefits:
- EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
- Following workplace security protocols and training programs to familiarize with the ways to maintain a safe workplace.
- Following security procedures to report any suspicious activity.
- Having respect for corporate security procedures to allow those procedures to be effective.
- Adhering to company's compliance and regulations.
- Encouraging to follow a zero tolerance for workplace violence.
- Basic knowledge of information security and data privacy requirements (e.g., how to protect data & how to be handling this data).
- Demonstrative knowledge of information security through internal training programs.



















