[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.
2. 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
3. Interfaces
- Program Manager / Technical Project Manager
- System Architect / Safety & Security
- Engineering teams (SW/HW/System)
- Other CPOs (Parking, ACP, Hardware etc.)
4. 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
5. 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)
- The history of Bosch is the history of car evolution. As a top-class automotive equipment supplier, Bosch Corporation supports market expansion/inroads domestically as well as globally. Bosch will continue to pursue forward-looking technologies such as the new generation of technologies for ecology, economy and safety as well as next-generation energy technologies, to keep cars as a part of the society and of the world. With its innovative technologies, Bosch Corporation has expanded into various fields such as consumer goods and building technologies. To become a key partner for every customer, Bosch will continue to drive for greater expectations.
Originally posted on Himalayas