Principal Product Manager, Automotive Supply Chain Intelligence

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the complete product lifecycle concerning automotive supply chain risk, sustainability, and compliance capabilities.

• Acquire a thorough understanding of automotive procurement and supply chain processes, encompassing multi-tier supplier visibility, supplier risk, responsible sourcing, traceability, due diligence, and regulatory compliance.

• Act as a subject matter expert on supply chain-related regulatory changes, translating requirements into actionable product capabilities, particularly focusing on UFLPA and EUDR.

• Stay abreast of regulatory, technological, and competitive environments to pinpoint product opportunities linked to supply chain transparency, responsible sourcing, sustainability, trade compliance, and operational risk.

• Establish and sustain a multi-quarter roadmap that includes prioritization rationale, sequencing trade-offs, and measurable outcomes.

• Engage in structured customer discovery with automotive OEMs, Tier 1–3 suppliers, procurement executives, supply chain risk teams, sustainability groups, and compliance professionals.

• Consolidate customer research into prioritized problem statements, personas, and jobs-to-be-done.

• Create capabilities to map and analyze multi-tier supply chains, identify and prioritize supplier and geographic risks, screen for compliance issues, gather evidence, and track changes in risk exposure.

• Draft product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and data specifications.

• Collaborate with engineering and data teams within an agile delivery framework to refine backlogs, clarify ambiguities, and make scope decisions.

• Work in tandem with UX and design to implement scalable workflows.

• Partner with commercial, marketing, and customer success teams on positioning, packaging, pricing inputs, launch readiness, enablement materials, and adoption strategies.

• Assist with renewals, escalations, and strategic customer interactions.

• Define and track product success metrics, including adoption, retention, workflow completion rates, time to insight, regulatory readiness outcomes, and commercial performance.

• Advise on areas for product extension, integration, or partnerships.

• Represent the product in customer workshops, advisory sessions, methodology discussions, conferences, and industry forums.

• Position the product as a reliable source of supply chain intelligence, enabling proactive monitoring, due diligence, and risk mitigation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Full professional proficiency in English, with the ability to communicate effectively in both spoken and written forms for all job responsibilities.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Economics, or a related discipline.

• Over 2 years of experience in product management, ideally developing B2B software, SaaS, data, analytics, or workflow solutions.

• Proven knowledge of supply chain management, procurement, supply chain risk, responsible sourcing, sustainability, trade compliance, or related fields.

• Familiarity with regulatory requirements impacting global supply chains, such as UFLPA and CSDDD.

• Understanding of how regulatory requirements translate into practical needs for supplier due diligence, traceability, screening, documentation, and reporting.

• Ability to convert complex business, regulatory, and customer requirements into clear product specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, and product priorities.

• Experience in customer research and discovery.

• Ability to distill ambiguous, multi-stakeholder needs into scalable product capabilities.

• Data-driven decision-making abilities, including defining success metrics, interpreting usage and performance data, and utilizing quantitative and qualitative insights to prioritize.

• Capability to influence without authority across various teams, including research, engineering, design, commercial, marketing, legal, and operations.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Previous experience in the automotive industry or in developing products or solutions for automotive OEMs and suppliers.

• Strong comprehension of automotive supply chain structures, including OEM and Tier 1–N supplier relationships, sourcing, localization, bill-of-material relationships, geographic dependencies, and operational risk.

• Familiarity with automotive commodity sectors such as raw materials and critical minerals, batteries and cells, electronics and semiconductors, powertrain and chassis systems, or interior and cabin systems.

• Experience in supply chain risk management, including supplier disruption risk, geopolitical risk, financial risk, sustainability risk, responsible sourcing, or regulatory compliance.

• Knowledge of additional regulations and frameworks affecting global and automotive supply chains, including CSDDD, CSRD, CBAM, sanctions, export controls, conflict minerals requirements, forced-labor regulations, and country-of-origin considerations.

• Experience in building or scaling B2B SaaS, data, or analytics products, including packaging, entitlement, and adoption strategies for enterprise clients.

• Understanding of APIs, data integration patterns, entity resolution, taxonomies, and integration into customer systems such as ERP, PLM, or supplier management platforms.

• Relevant certifications such as CSCP, CPSM, CSCMP, CPP, or credentials in product management and agile methodologies (for instance, CSPO, SAFe PO/PM, Pragmatic Institute).

• MBA or a master’s degree in a related field.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including base salary and incentive opportunities where applicable.

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits for employees and eligible dependents.

• Retirement savings programs, including company matching contributions where available.

• Incentive compensation, where applicable.

• Long-term incentives, where applicable.

• Reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process and employment for qualified individuals with disabilities.