Product Owner

Ready to Build Your Career in the Automotive and Mobility Sector?

SBD Automotive is a global automotive research and consulting firm, supporting manufacturers, suppliers, and technology companies with strategy, insight, and execution across connected, electric, autonomous, and software-defined vehicles.

As a Product Owner, you will play an active role in delivering high-quality product insights, owning defined deliverables and workstreams, building trusted client relationships, and developing the expertise needed to create increasing value for clients.

This is a core delivery role within the product team, combining analytical problem solving, client engagement, and growing commercial awareness. You will work closely with Senior Product Owners, Managers, and Senior Managers while increasingly taking ownership of your work, contributing ideas, and developing your impact with clients.

A Day in the Life

Your day will balance project delivery, client interaction, analysis, knowledge development, and contribution to the wider product team.

You might start the day reviewing research or analysis for a client deliverable, refining a presentation, or progressing a defined project workstream. Later, you could join a client meeting, present part of an analysis, or work with colleagues to turn client feedback into product improvements or new offerings.

You may spend part of the day collaborating with colleagues in another regional, participating in a Centre of Excellence, developing your domain knowledge, planning a future user experience in-vehicle evaluation, or supporting an Analyst or Researcher with a task.

No two days are identical, but the focus remains the same: delivering high-quality work, building credibility with clients, and progressively increasing your ownership, expertise, and contribution to SBD.

Your Key Responsibilities Include:

Client Delivery

• Own defined client deliverables and project workstreams, ensuring they are completed on time and to a high standard.
• Apply structured problem solving, research, and analysis to client challenges.
• Manage your time effectively across multiple tasks and priorities while maintaining delivery quality.
• Communicate findings and recommendations clearly through written outputs, presentations, and client discussions.
• Support project leads in planning and delivering successful client outcomes.

Client Relationships and Value Creation

• Build positive and trusted relationships with clients, third parties, and project stakeholders.
• Develop a strong understanding of what clients do, their priorities, and the needs behind the work SBD is delivering.
• Communicate with confidence and professionalism in client-facing situations and ensure client perspectives are understood and valued.
• Understand how your work contributes to the wider project and client outcome.
• Begin to identify practical opportunities to add value beyond the immediate task or deliverable.

Commercial Contribution

• Develop an understanding of client accounts, market developments, and the commercial context in which SBD operates.
• Identify and establish connections across your internal and external network and maintain relationships with previous clients.
• Support business development activities including proposals, research, opportunity qualification, and preparation for client discussions.
• Contribute practical ideas that could reduce cost, improve quality, increase revenue, or strengthen SBD’s products and services.
• Act in the best interests of clients while developing an understanding of how strong delivery and relationships support repeat business and growth.

Domain Expertise and Knowledge Development

• Build knowledge across the automotive, mobility, and technology landscape and develop deeper expertise in relevant domains.
• Understand SBD’s services, capabilities, and how different areas of the business work together to serve clients.
• Actively participate in relevant Centres of Excellence, building your knowledge, internal network, and contribution to insight development.
• Stay informed on client, industry, and market developments and contribute to sharing useful knowledge with colleagues.
• Maintain a broad view of SBD’s major domains and areas of specialism while developing your own areas of expertise.

Professional Contribution

• Champion SBD’s brand, purpose, values, and professional standards in all internal and external interactions.
• Take ownership of your development and actively seek, give, receive, and act on timely feedback.
• Contribute to internal and People initiatives at project team or Business Unit level when required.
• Demonstrate strong operational discipline including time-off booking, timesheet completion, project planning, appropriate use of project commercial tools, and maintaining project outputs in agreed systems.
• Manage your time proactively across client delivery, relationship building, learning, and internal contribution in line with business priorities.
• Use AI and other productivity tools appropriately to improve individual productivity, quality, and client value.
• Identify and escalate risks and issues appropriately and contribute practical mitigating actions.

About you

You are a developing consultant who combines strong analytical capability with a practical, client-focused mindset. You enjoy taking ownership of your work, solving complex problems, and building relationships while continuing to grow your consulting and automotive expertise.

You bring:

• Experience in consulting, automotive, mobility, technology, research, or a related professional environment.
• Experience in evaluating user experience of vehicle systems
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.
• Experience producing high-quality written deliverables, presentations, analysis, or client-facing outputs.
• Good communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with growing confidence in client-facing situations.
• The ability to take ownership of defined tasks or workstreams and manage multiple priorities effectively.
• A proactive approach to learning, feedback, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Sound judgement, attention to detail, and a strong sense of personal accountability.

Ideally you also have:

• Experience or knowledge in connected vehicles, EVs, ADAS, software-defined vehicles, digital services, or related automotive domains.
• Previous experience supporting or delivering consulting projects, strategic initiatives, research programmes, or analytical work.
• Experience working directly with clients or external stakeholders.
• Experience using data, research, market insight, or structured analysis to support decision making.
• Experience working in an international or cross-functional environment.

Why SBD Automotive

At SBD Automotive, you will work with leading automotive and technology clients on some of the industry’s most important challenges.

We offer:

A clear progression path within consulting and opportunities to take on increasing client and project responsibility.

Exposure to cutting-edge mobility technologies and strategies.

Hands-on experience working directly with leading automotive and technology organisations.

A collaborative, international team environment.

Opportunities to build domain expertise through project work, Centres of Excellence, and experienced colleagues.

Competitive salary and benefits.

Interested?

If you are ready to take the next step in your consulting career and want to work on complex challenges shaping the future of mobility, we would like to hear from you.

Apply now to join SBD Automotive and work with some of the world’s leading automotive and technology organisations.