Product Manager

Founded in 2019, Volkswagen Digital Solutions (VWDS) plays a major role in the Volkswagen Group strategy of going digital, by developing software mainly for the digital ecosystems and internal corporate processes.

Split across 3 tech units: CODE (Core Operations + Development), MAN Digital Hub and SDC (Software Development Center), VWDS plays a key part of the digitalization strategy that is happening in the Group.

Our Mindset | Open for new ways, transparent in what we do and responsive to requests!

Our Target | Creating value, being customer focused and delivering continuously!

About the Role

The role will be part of the SDC (Software Development Center). Our goal is to help create a new digital ecosystem for the Volkswagen Group brands, delivering a sustainable competitive advantage by engineering high quality, user-centric and meaningful digital products for the group and its customers.

Product management lies at the intersection of technology, design and the business, and we are looking for someone who can balance the act of being the voice of the customer and ensuring customer needs are met while delivering maximum business value inline with the Volkswagen Group vision and strategy.

What you will be doing:

•  Work as a team player and collaborate within the Product team with Product Designers and Software engineers to balance the act of being the voice of the customer and ensuring customer needs are met while delivering business value
• Identify opportunities through user research, market research and contribute to solution ideation, and delivery
• Collaborate with the Product team and stakeholders to identify the priority problems to solve and define a product roadmap in an outcome-oriented format
• Define key success metrics for the outcomes and be able to set up tracking and monitoring to collect data to inform your product decisions
• Define and refine backlog priorities, going from the outcome roadmap
• Deliver training, product presentations, workshops
• Ongoing collaboration with stakeholders

What you will bring:

• You have shipped successful products, including defining vision, strategy, and product roadmap
• You can identify opportunities (problems/pains) and turn them into value (solutions/gains) for the customers and the business alike
• You have experience articulating and testing product hypotheses and breaking down complex problems into actionable steps and managing backlogs
• You can ensure the minimum viable product spec and processes are in place to be able to test and iterate
• You can collaborate successfully with engineers, designers, and business stakeholders
• You can choose the right metrics and ensure they are in place to identify how our users are interacting with the product and guide the team in making the right product decisions
• You have professional proficiency in English (written and spoken)

Benefits & Perks:

This is a true opportunity to join an amazing atmosphere on our local company culture build up, with the support of a solid international group, and to be part of an Agile environment where you can learn, share, and interact in a place where your ideas are valued and you have a voice.

• Flexible working hours;
• Remote friendly model adapted to each team’s needs and preferences;
• Continuous learning with access to Udemy;
• Wellbeing program extendable to your household;
• Health insurance extendable to your household;
• Life insurance;
• Opportunity to join the company’s pension fund;
• Home Office Setup to build your dream home office;
• Home allowance, to receive in your payslip or use in our flexible benefits platform (e.g. gym partnership, internet/data expenses, tech equipment);
• Smartphone + Telecom with voice & data plan;
• Discounts on VW Group cars and special conditions on financing;
• Relocation package (if applicable) & Visa process sponsorship;
• Portuguese/English language classes.

Unsure if you meet all these requirements? Please apply anyway! We would love to hear from you!