Product Manager

About River

River is an electric vehicle company building multi-utility scooters. At River, we’re building scooters of tomorrow for the ambitious youth of today. Because we believe people only need two things to achieve success: the desire to make it to the top, and the means to get there.

With our flagship product River Indie, SUV of Scooters, is designed to help you get things done. Engineered to be a dependable ally on your road to success. We are backed by marquee international investors - these are mobility focused funds backed by Yamaha Motors, Al-Futtaim Automotive Group, Toyota VC and Maniv Mobility.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a family of products within the company range, delivering the product objectives for development; (Including L0 specifications, feature requirements, and CFT alignment
• Identifying brand and customer requirements; translating these requirements into deliverable engineering metrics (L0 of product, Services if any) to ensure successful product development
• Initiate pre-aligned projects in R&D along with the program team in accordance with organizational goals and management vision
• Develop and maintain a Benchmark Product database
• Ensuring contents and features are innovative, competitive, on the product and ensure sustained product positioning
• To collect VOCs from various channels- sales team, service team, online user reviews etc. and analyze to create insights
• Strategic translation of voice of customer to product intent. Ownership to successfully achieve product intent in the development stages along with CFTs
• Represent the product roadmap. The Product Manager owns the master list of possible changes to the product, and is responsible for representing the rationale behind prioritization
• Evaluate engineering prototypes at various stages of development to maintain L0 specification and product experience
• Communicate product positioning, features and benefits to internal and external audiences such as our marketing and sales teams, creative agencies, media, dealers and consumers
• Work with brand & marketing to coordinate product launch plans including timing, pricing, product materials, talking points, training, etc.
• Be responsible for , cradle to grave, and all lifecycle planning actions - from advanced planning (full model changes) to launch
• Ensure implementation of "buildable" product configurations during the planning phase of each new vehicle. Ensure the final consistency & correctness of the product specifications prior to the launch phase of the product
• Determine, implement and communicate model change points, including sales configurations, throughout the lifecycle of the product to relevant stakeholders
• Determine build-out strategies for each model generation and end of the product life cycle
• Timely release of all Product planning and development documentation to allow product launches to happen in accordance to the product plan

Ideal Candidate

• Minimum 3 Years of experience in a similar role
• Motorcycle industry experience is advantageous
• Product Management or Development experience in a product driven company with a global customer base
• Proven success in all phases of the product life cycle; identification of need, development of product requirements, product design, quality and production hand-off, launch and ongoing product management
• An in-depth knowledge of the automotive or motorcycle market. Passion for automotive products
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Confident and effective negotiator; able to consistently reach positive outcomes whilst building positive internal and external relationships
• Self-initiative and an independent working attitude, as well as flexibility and determination
• Excellent strategic and analytical skills
• Drive, determination and a willingness to take on responsibility
• A customer-focused and quality-oriented mind-set
• Ability to work across borders in a complex environment with multiple internal and external stakeholders