Product Owner

Product Owner - In-Vehicle Media and Entertainment Services

• Job ID 2026-5643
• Brussels (Zaventem)
• R&D
• Experienced professional

About this job

Lead the development of in-vehicle media and entertainment services by defining product strategy, managing requirements, coordinating stakeholders, and ensuring the successful delivery of customer-focused digital experiences.

Get to know your team and responsibilities

Within Connected Technologies, you will contribute to the development of next-generation in-vehicle media and entertainment experiences. The team works across vehicle infotainment systems, mobile applications, cloud platforms, content providers, broadcasters, and ecosystem partners to deliver seamless, intuitive, and customer-centric access to radio, music, podcasts, video, and other mixed-media services throughout the vehicle lifecycle.

Are you looking for an exciting and unique opportunity to redefine how customers experience media and entertainment in their vehicles?

Your responsibilities

• Define product vision and roadmap based on market trends, customer insights, and technology evolution.
• Drive in-vehicle radio, music streaming, podcast, video streaming, and mixed-media solutions across vehicle launch and lifecycle management (LCM).
• Build and defend business cases (value, cost, risks) using data-driven insights.
• Translate business needs into clear use cases, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Define customer journeys and product requirements for in-vehicle media and entertainment services across infotainment, mobile, cloud, and content-provider touchpoints.
• Align and influence engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, legal, regional teams, content providers, broadcasters, and external partners.
• Review and challenge technical solutions to ensure feasibility, safety, privacy, cybersecurity, scalability, content compliance, and a high‑quality customer experience.
• Track development progress, dependencies, risks, and delivery milestones.
• Support product launches with functional expertise and documentation.
• Act as the bridge between business, development, architecture, user experience, regional teams, and media ecosystem partners.

Who are we looking for?

Your profile

Experience

• Experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Program Manager, or similar role.
• Up to 5 years experience in automotive, connected services, digital products, or embedded software environments.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders, suppliers, and technical teams.
• Agile mindset with experience using Jira, Confluence, and collaboration tools.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong planning, organisation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Understanding of connected services, digital media products, and customer‑facing entertainment experiences.
• Understanding of vehicle access solutions, connected services, and customer‑facing digital products.
• Awareness of vehicle E/E architecture, infotainment platforms, connectivity technologies, and software development lifecycles.
• Understanding of radio, audio and video streaming, media discovery, playback, content integration, account management, and related customer journeys.
• Awareness of media ecosystem technologies and standards, including broadcast radio, internet radio, audio and video streaming, smartphone integration, cloud services, content delivery, and third‑party applications such as Spotify or Netflix.
• Understanding of cybersecurity, privacy, quality, regulatory, licensing, digital rights management, driver‑distraction, and content compliance requirements.
• Ability to assess technical trade‑offs, risks, service performance, media quality, data consumption, and customer experience metrics.
• Strong awareness of automotive HMI/UX principles, media interaction patterns, and customer experience considerations.
• Valid automobile driving licence for the EU

Leadership Behaviours

• Take ownership and drive execution in complex environments.
• Build alignment across business, technical, and partner organisations.
• Apply a fact‑based and analytical approach to problem solving and decision making.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Focus on delivering customer value while balancing business and technical constraints.

You have a Toyota DNA, this means you:

• Have a customer first mindset
• Wish to develop and are ready to persevere in order to reach challenging targets
• Seek facts before making recommendations or decisions
• Have strong planning and organizing skills
• Are a flexible team player with a n