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Product Manager, Electrical & Embedded Software (E&E) Engineering
Integrated Resources, Inc
- 🇨🇦 Canada | 🇺🇸 United States
- On-site
- Manager or above
- 13 hours ago
- AI
- Change Management
- Agile
- Azure
- AWS
- Risk Management
13 hours ago
Location: Waterloo, IA 50613
Duration: 24 Months
Job Description:
- This contingent Product Manager role supports a broad portfolio of electrical engineering and software tool capabilities, with responsibility for operational continuity, compliance oversight, budget and license management, supplier coordination, stakeholder engagement, and delivery of strategic initiatives.
- The position requires a highly organized individual who can balance day-to-day operational demands with large-scale transformation efforts across product lines.
- Manage the ongoing operation of a subset of electrical engineering, software development and testing applications.
- Lead recurring compliance and governance activities, including annual application assessments, AI component reviews, third-party supplier risk assessments, and related documentation updates.
- Coordinate budget planning, annual renewals, usage validation, growth requests, cost controls, and financial monitoring across a subset of E&E applications.
- Monitor and manage software licensing, license denials, server outages, build server requests, approval workflows, and license usage tracking across multiple enterprise tools.
- Partner with internal support teams to resolve operational issues impacting application availability, infrastructure stability, and user productivity.
- Lead and participate in governance councils, architecture reviews, operational meetings, compliance training, and staff forums to align product and tool strategy with business needs.
- Maintain strong stakeholder relationships across engineering, software delivery, test, architecture, digital, platform, and business leadership teams.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for software suppliers and partners, including contract discussions, usage alignment, issue escalation, roadmap conversations, and renewal planning.
- Coordinate with affiliates, acquisitions, and external partner organizations on software usage, integrations, supplier agreements, and transition planning.
- Drive strategic initiatives such as platform migrations, reporting modernization, tool consolidation, cloud transitions, systems integration, governance improvements, and process standardization.
- Translate business needs into actionable plans for engineering tools.
- Identify process gaps, cost reduction opportunities, and automation improvements that improve service quality, governance, and operational efficiency.
- Support change management, user adoption, and cross-functional alignment for new tools, new processes, and enterprise transformation efforts.
- Strong product management or technical program management experience in enterprise software, engineering tools, or IT-enabled business capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously across operations, compliance, budget, vendor management, and strategic projects.
- Experience with application governance, risk assessments, compliance processes, and audit-ready documentation.
- Strong financial acumen, including budget management, forecasting, renewal planning, and cost optimization.
- Experience managing software licensing, vendor relationships, contract coordination, and enterprise tool usage.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional stakeholders, including engineering, architecture, software delivery, finance, procurement, legal, and leadership teams.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present recommendations, facilitate alignment, and document decisions clearly.
- Experience leading tool migrations, platform implementations, systems integrations, or process improvement initiatives.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and follow-through.
- Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and incomplete information.
- Working knowledge of Agile delivery practices and software development lifecycle concepts.
- Experience supporting electrical engineering tool ecosystems and software application lifecycle management solutions.
- Experience with cloud platforms and cost monitoring, including Azure and AWS environments.
- Background in supplier risk management, third-party assessments, and software contract negotiations.
- Knowledge of embedded software and controller technology.
- Experience identifying automation opportunities to reduce manual operational workload.
- Exposure to mergers, acquisitions, affiliate support models, or multi-organization software governance.
- Experience working in large, matrixed enterprise environments with diverse stakeholder groups and distributed teams.
- 5+ years of experience in product management, technical program management, IT business management, software asset management, or a closely related role.
- Proven experience managing enterprise applications or software products through both operational support and strategic transformation efforts.
- Experience owning or influencing budgets, renewals, vendor engagements, and license management processes.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving technology, process, governance, and stakeholder alignment.
- Experience working with enterprise software suppliers, internal business customers, and technical support teams to resolve issues and improve service delivery.
- Experience with compliance-driven processes such as assessments, controls, audits, legal requests, or risk reviews.
- Experience delivering outcomes in environments with multiple concurrent projects, competing priorities, and significant coordination requirements.
- The ideal candidate is a hands-on product manager who is equally comfortable running operational processes, driving governance and compliance activities, managing budgets and suppliers, and leading strategic tool and platform initiatives.
- This person should be able to build credibility quickly with technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership while bringing structure, follow-up discipline, and practical decision-making to a complex portfolio.
Product Manager, Electrical & Embedded Software (E&E) Engineering · Integrated Resources, Inc