Product Manager, Electrical & Embedded Software (E&E) Engineering

Alipro LLC has a contingent Product Manager role focused on electrical engineering and embedded software (E&E) engineering tools, with ownership across operations, compliance, licensing, suppliers, and strategic platform initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Run day-to-day operations for a defined subset of electrical engineering, software development, and testing applications.
• Own recurring compliance and governance activities, including annual application assessments, AI component reviews, third-party supplier risk assessments, and documentation updates.
• Manage budget planning and annual renewals for a subset of E&E applications, including usage validation, growth requests, cost controls, and financial monitoring.
• Monitor and administer software licensing across enterprise tools, including handling license denials, server outages, build server requests, approval workflows, and tracking license usage.
• Partner with internal support teams to resolve operational issues affecting application availability, infrastructure stability, and user productivity.
• Participate in governance councils, architecture reviews, operational meetings, compliance training, and staff forums to align tool and product strategy with business needs.
• Maintain stakeholder relationships across engineering, software delivery, test, architecture, digital, platform, and business leadership groups.
• Serve as a primary contact for software suppliers and partners, including contract discussions, usage alignment, issue escalation, roadmap conversations, and renewal planning.
• Coordinate with affiliates, acquisitions, and external partners 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 requirements into actionable plans for engineering tools.
• Find process gaps and cost reduction opportunities, including automation improvements to strengthen service quality, governance, and operational efficiency.
• Support change management, user adoption, and cross-functional alignment for new tools, new processes, and enterprise transformation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management or technical program management experience in enterprise software, engineering tools, or IT-enabled business capabilities.
• Proven capability to manage multiple priorities 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 collaborate across functions, including engineering, architecture, software delivery, finance, procurement, legal, and leadership teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including presenting recommendations, facilitating alignment, and documenting decisions.
• Experience leading tool migrations, platform implementations, systems integrations, or process improvement initiatives.
• Strong analytical and organizational 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.

Skills & Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting electrical engineering tool ecosystems and software application lifecycle management solutions.
• Experience with cloud 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 stakeholders and distributed teams.

Location & Work Details

• Location: Cedar Falls, IA (onsite)
• Job type: contract
• Pay: USD 70–74 per hour
• Work location: In person

Technologies

• Azure
• AWS