Scope, objective and relevance of position                       

This position ensures the development of China in-car APPs with the Chinese Eco-system . The objectives is to provide China specific in-car APPs, which enriches service portfolio and to meet the Chinese customer requirement of connect services.  

The timely development and delivery of the infotainment system is the key to prevent delays of the car production and its release is vital to uphold the customer satisfaction.

The main tasks of this position:

• Android Platform function/Product owner to creatively design/develop Android platform and Android based services according to the market specific requirement in connection to overall Audi connect solution.
• Design and define China in-car APP function added on the global ecosystem, ensuring the cross-hardware functionality, backend infrastructure, multi-touch points and china specific cloud servers. 
• Support project approval in cooperation with relevant departments, such as Marketing, Product Management and Purchasing etc. in both headquarters and local team.
• Define and develop China local solution especially China specific portfolio and give function release for China SW variant.
• Developing technical specifications and agreements adapted to company, supplier and customer
  requirements and reach quality-wise approvable state of the owned function area
• Organize the component team with global suppliers, local suppliers, UIUX, testing team as well as brand to ensure the on-time implementation of digital assistant features and SOP delivery.
• Support different online services on Audi Android platform as base of eco system for Audi digitalization strategy.
• Continuous improvement of the owned function area by developing and integrating new features to be competitive in the market.  

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Key tasks and responsibilities                                            

Serial development for Digital Assistant function

• Develop end-2-end China in-car APP functionalities in infotainment system
• Integrate China specific in-car APPs into global platform.
• Workout feasible technical architecture including frontend, backend and operation environment.  
• Workout function specification, align with different functions and suppliers, approval and release function specification
• Tracking the development process with different function responsible FOs and suppliers.
• Quality assurance of the feature development and delivery
• End to end responsibility of China in-car APP development.
• Tracking for bug fixing process and error management, and function quality
• Responsible for the function approval of owned functions and give final release to SOP.
• Ensure project delivery of the final SOP.
  Project management
• Project planning and alignment with corresponding stakeholders (cPPT, cTT, LT, etc.)
• Budget planning and control, procurement activities
• Development planning based on agile process (SAFe)
• Regular alignments with stakeholders in ING to facilitate synergies in development topics
• Stakeholder management within component team to ensure the definition and implementation of functions.
• Supplier management to ensure the on-time and qualified feature development
• Function approval and release
  Pre-development
• Benchmarking with competitors in the field of digital assistant
• Bring innovation ideas into our project
• Propose the function scope for the project
• Evaluate feasibility of the innovation topics
• Work out roadmap for the features
• Align with relevant stakeholders to validate the function scope

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Qualification and skills                                                        

Education background

Bachelor’s/ Master’s degree on computer science,  electrical or automotive engineering or equivalent

Working experiences

• At least 1-3 years in development of speech related projects
• At least 1-3 years in the software project management experience (OEM or supplier)
• At least 1-3 years in Automotive infotainment development experience (OEM or supplier)
   
  Technical / Professional skills
  Technical Competence
• Knowledge and experience in infotainment system, Knowledge in Android automotive system or Linux system.
• Knowledge in product design and function definition in intelligent cockpit/ Infotainment system/connect service area
• knowledge of vehicle connect service related technical area:

• In vehicle electric/electronic system basic
• Vehicle bus network basic knowledge
• Telecommunication basic

• Knowledge in SW development (C++, JAVA or Python).
• Experience working in an Agile development environment (Jira, confluence)
• Software development quality methodologies such as design review, code review, continuous integration, regression testing and code/trace analysis
• Proficiency in MS office (Excel, PPT, Project).
   
  Soft Skills
• Team player
• Willingness to learn
• Detail orientation
• Strong responsibility and result-driven
• Power of endurance
• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Strong cooperation skills and assertion skills for cross-function/entity cooperation
• Openness and multi-culture working skills
   
  Linguistic ability
• English Fluent
• Chinese Fluent
• German Beneficial