ABOUT WIND RIVER

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability. Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy.

The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

We’re hiring an experienced Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and roadmap for Wind River Linux, our embedded Linux distribution based on the Yocto Project. Launched in 2004, Wind River Linux is the leading distribution for highly reliable embedded workloads,



offering a minimum ten years of Long Term Support while maintaining a minimal footprint for industrial, telco, government and enterprise workloads.

As Product

Manager for Wind River Linux, you will own the strategy and roadmap for this product line end-to-end. You’ll gather input from external customers, sales, market research, fellow product managers, support teams, and partners, and define the future of embedded Linux at Wind River. Working in close partnership with experienced Engineering and Product Management teams, you will write requirements, justify investments, prioritize the backlog, own your roadmap, do market research, analyze the competition, collaborate with the sales teams on key deals, review defects, engage with extended teams, and evangelize Wind River Linux and the Yocto Project both internally and externally.

ABOUT YOU

8+ years managing the entire product lifecycle, from concept to end-of-life

Experience managing open-source products or projects, with Linux-based products strongly preferred

Experience with strategic planning, roadmap development, feature prioritization, Agile methodologies and the Product Owner role, and project management

Experience writing requirements for engineering

Excellent understanding of the Linux ecosystem and open source for embedded workloads.





Experience with Yocto and/or participation in Linux projects and committees (e.g.

Linux

Foundation) are also a plus.

Valuable understanding of security, containerization, and orchestration concepts, cloud technologies and constructs (containers, universal base images, Kubernetes)

Strong analytical abilities, with excellent written and oral communication skills with a collaborative mindset

Excellent presenter, public speaker and advocate for your customers and product line.

Experience supporting customers, account teams, and partners in solution design and strategic partnerships

Ability to move easily between product, services, marketing, strategy, and technical discussions

Bachelor’s degree with suitable experience required. Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or MBA a plus.

Moderate travel (5-10%) may be required depending on location.

Aptiv is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Aptiv is a global industrial technology company enabling automated, electrified and digitalized solutions across multiple end markets. People trust us to deliver innovations that will help them progress, improve and achieve more tomorrow than they did yesterday.

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