[XC-AS] Driving CPO (Chief Product Owner)

1. Mission

• As Driving CPO, you are accountable for maximizing product value in the Driving domain (ADAS/Automated Driving) by defining and leading the product strategy end-to-end — from customer value and system requirements to product release.
• You act as the central interface between customer, business, and engineering to ensure a competitive, scalable, and high-quality product.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Strategy & Vision

• Define and drive the product vision and roadmap for Driving features (e.g., highway assist, urban driving)

• Ensure alignment with overall ADAS portfolio and business targets

• End-to-End Product Ownership (E2E)

• Take full responsibility for the Driving product scope across system and software integration

• Own and approve top-level system requirements and product scope

• Ensure consistency across all contributing streams (Perception, Fusion, Planning, Vehicle Integration)

• Drive system engineering and requirement definition across domains

• Product Backlog & Agile Leadership

• Own and prioritize the product backlog (features, epics, requirements)

• Define priorities based on customer value, technical feasibility, and business impact

• Guide development teams by ensuring clear backlog readiness and acceptance criteria

• Accept or reject delivered increments based on defined Definition of Done

• Stakeholder Management

• Act as primary interface towards OEM customers for product-related topics

• Align with Program Management, Technical Project Managers, System Architects, and other CPOs

• Coordinate across multiple CPO roles within Driving (e.g., Safety, Comfort legacy functions)

• Release & Quality Accountability

• Ensure delivery of product according to scope, timing, and quality targets

• Make final decisions on release readiness

• Manage trade-offs between performance, cost, and time-to-market

• Oversee issue prioritization, change management, and product quality KPIs

1. Interfaces

• Program Manager / Technical Project Manager
• System Architect / Safety & Security
• Engineering teams (SW/HW/System)
• Other CPOs (Parking, ACP, Hardware etc.)

1. Positioning

• Driving domain product owner with full E2E accountability
• Works within Driving stream under Lead CPO setup
• Integrates multiple functional CPOs to deliver a coherent product

1. Key Deliverables

• System and product requirement definition

• Product backlog and prioritization

• Release scope and decision

• Customer-facing feature definition and proposal input

• Technical (WANT)

• ADAS / Automated Driving systems (Perception, Planning, Vehicle Control)

• Experience in system engineering, requirement management, and architecture

• Familiarity with Agile development and ASPICE

• Japanese language

• Leadership & Business

• Strong product ownership mindset with focus on customer value

• Cross-functional leadership in global, multi-company setup

• Excellent stakeholder communication and negotiation skills

• Strategic thinking and decision-making under uncertainty

• Lead people globally (different cultural background, not directly visible), in different domains (R&D, plant, purchasing,…) with different expertise of different managerial levels (up to General Manager)