Senior Specialist, Product Management – E/E Architecture, Features & Requirements Management (Automotive)

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina; Novi, Michigan; or San Ramon, California, United States. Requires 4–5 days per week in the office, regular in-person meetings and events, and occasional travel.

Base salary: $95,000–$120,000 annually. California base salary: $104,500–$132,000 annually. Eligible for an annual performance bonus.

Company

hirify.global is developing electric pickup trucks and rugged SUVs, including all-electric and range-extender powertrains.

What you will do

• Own product management and roadmaps for cross-vehicle hardware and software features, translating customer, market, and business needs into priorities and outcomes.
• Define and align product and feature requirements across vehicle, hardware, software, and E/E teams.
• Own feature lifecycle and change governance from definition and prioritization through launch and series evolution.
• Lead trade-offs involving feature scope, maturity, dependencies, cost, timing, feasibility, and portfolio impact.
• Align Product, Software, E/E, Vehicle Engineering, IT, Quality, Manufacturing, and Commercial Operations on feature content, timing, and decisions.
• Drive E/E timing-plan inputs, software variant and complexity management, product decision forums, launch readiness, and communication with RVT and senior leadership.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience in automotive, mobility, or another complex hardware/software product environment, owning major products or cross-functional workstreams.
• Proven product ownership across the feature lifecycle, from definition and prioritization through launch and series evolution.
• Strong understanding of automotive hardware/software dependencies and their impact on customer value, feasibility, timing, and readiness.
• Working knowledge of E/E and software-defined vehicle architectures, including vehicle functions, software, compute platforms, and hardware interactions.
• Experience setting product priorities, roadmaps, and governance for complex cross-functional initiatives and guiding software-enabled features through development, launch, and series readiness.
• Experience translating feature, requirements, and architecture inputs into integrated E/E timing plans and managing cross-domain software variants and complexity, including cost, commercial, and statement-of-work impacts.
• Ability to assess customer, business, cost, timing, and portfolio impacts; exercise judgment when priorities compete; and turn technical options into clear product recommendations.
• Strong cross-functional influence across Product, Software, Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Commercial, and senior leadership, including the ability to interface with RVT.
• Clear, concise communication and experience with JIRA, Confluence, and relevant product, requirements, or lifecycle-management tools.

Nice to have

• Automotive series-development and launch experience.
• Ownership of a major cross-functional hardware/software product or workstream through series production.
• Experience with software-defined vehicles, E/E architecture, or software-enabled features.
• Experience aligning agile software delivery with automotive development milestones.
• Ability to present clear product trade-offs and recommendations to senior leaders.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial, inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced high-growth environment.
• Medical, dental, vision, and income protection plans.
• 401(k) with employer match and immediate vesting.
• 20 days of planned PTO, 40 hours of unplanned PTO, and 14 company or floating holidays annually.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave and paid leave for bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave.