Country Product Manager - (CHINA-APAC)
Wallbox, China
Job Description
We are a global scale-up from Barcelona, born in 2015, dedicated to changing the way the world uses energy. We envision a world free from fossil fuels and we believe the first step in this journey is creating solutions that make electric vehicle charging easier for everyone.
We’re devoted to researching and developing state-of-the-art electric vehicle charging solutions for homes, businesses, and cities. And this way, our mission is to create more sustainable ways of using and sharing energy.
We want to empower people to create, use and share renewable energy in ways they never imagined.
Wallbox currently operates in over 50 countries and has offices in Barcelona, Madrid, Shanghai, and San Francisco. We are powered by a culture of trust, innovation and diversity. For us, talent has no borders. We have more than 350 dedicated experts from over 30 different nationalities working together to create the most innovative products and the best experiences for our customers.
This culture has shown to be rewarding in many ways - amongst them, the creation of the world’s first bidirectional charger, the Quasar, and the recognition as the best of CES 2020 in transportation technology. We have recently closed our second tranche of Series A investment, bringing the total round to 23M and we’ve been recognized as LinkedIn's Top 5 Startups 2020 in Spain.
At the end of the day, working at Wallbox is at the same time challenging, fun and rewarding. If you like the idea of a dynamic environment, desire to work alongside an incredibly talented, fast-growing team and believe in the future of sustainable transportation, this is the place for you.
Are you ready to change the world with us?
Wallbox will further continue its expansion into global markets. Therefore the product department seeks to integrate specific market insights.
You will support the creation of a world-class product management discipline and team, maintaining close relationships with Global Product Managers and Product Owners.
For the China and APAC markets that means:
- Understand current Wallbox portfolio
- Understand user and market needs
- Align the specific product strategy and roadmap in the assumption of a worldwide product family with regional variants.
You will be the strategic partner while:
- Shepherd products from ideation to development, monitor product health throughout its life, and collaborate in the EOL and transition in your region.
- Identify strategic market gaps to develop new product concepts
- Work with Technology team to identify emerging technologies and trends to incorporate into the product roadmap
- Provide product-offering content to the marketing organization for the creation of collateral, sales tools and marketing programs and events and drive the winning proposition. Participate in RFI and RFQ, plus defense.
- Work internally with operations, finance, risk, legal and other BBH functional areas on the planning and execution of an specific strategic product development roadmap
- Generate a comprehensive product region reporting with quantitative and qualitative data.
You will be accountable for:
- accomplishing your KPI which will be business, reliability and product margin oriented.
- manage a cost reduction plan in view of OEM needs where the product margin is key
- developing product concepts and region strategy together with the global product manager.
- designing the product region roadmap, based on improving or developing functionalities to ensure that products must have to compete in its range in the market, as well as to face the regulations. Short and medium-term vision.
- follow up the overall project plan. Keep dates and maintain close communication within development (Engineering) and manufacturing (Operations), among other departments service, sales, quality.
Requirements
Technical expertise: Able to push back on engineering estimates and understand technical constraint without needing to consult a teammate. They represent the engineering team when talking to other functions like design, legal, and sales. Engineering skills will be highly appreciated to discuss product’s technical architecture.
Hardware knowledge on power electronics field or devices. Either consumer electronics or automotive related.
Software needn’t necessarily to be a software expert, but should have the technical acumen necessary to prioritise projects. A core understanding of product complexity from a code perspective ensures proper team collaboration, respect, and expectations. Maintaining a reliable code base is just as important as shipping new features to customers.
Data-driven, quick decision making. Product managers are the decision-makers when it comes to user exper