Product Manager - Android

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Job Description

Software Product Manager – Android

About Bose & the Audio Technology Team

For over 60 years, Bose has been a leader in delivering premium audio experiences, setting the benchmark for performance, elegance, and simplicity. Bose’s Technology Licensing team plays a pivotal role in expanding that legacy, transforming proprietary innovations into market-ready software and technology solutions that power products across the consumer electronics, automotive, and wearables industries.

We focus on shipping real software platforms that integrate cleanly into modern Android 16, 17 and beyond, scale across partners, and represent Bose’s technical credibility in system audio, spatial processing, and acoustic tuning.

About the Role

We are seeking a Software Product Manager to lead the Android platform software team and own Bose’s Android audio platform. This role delivers spatial audio processing, acoustic tuning algorithms, elegant system-level UX, and orchestrated multi-device audio experiences across Android phones, wearables, and connected devices.

The role operates at the intersection of current Android platform capabilities, advanced audio systems, and long-term business strategy, serving multiple stakeholders including Android OEMs, internal and external tuning engineers, and licensing leadership.

This is a hands-on, platform leadership role, not a feature PM position.

Key Responsibilities

Product Leadership & Execution

• Lead the Android platform software team as Product Owner for a persistent Agile team.
• Own roadmap, backlog prioritization, and delivery sequencing across Android platform milestones.
• Define core platform capabilities versus OEM-specific extensions, ensuring scalability across partners.
• Ensure foundational audio pipeline bring-up precedes optimization, spatial feature layering, and UX refinement.

Android Platform Ownership

• Own integration into Android system audio, including AudioFlinger, audio effects frameworks, and Audio HAL using AIDL-based interfaces.
• Manage Android version dependencies across AOSP, OEM forks, and Android CDD requirements.
• Guide architectural decisions across ARM processing, Qualcomm Hexagon DSP, and MediaTek audio DSP targets.
• Understand trade-offs between framework changes, vendor hooks, and application-layer solutions in modern Android.

Spatial Processing & Acoustic Tuning

• Own product definition for spatial audio, binaural rendering, HRTFs, and device-specific acoustic tuning algorithms.
• Support internal and external tuning engineers with clear configuration surfaces, constraints, and validation expectations.
• Reason end-to-end about latency budgets, buffering, synchronization, clock drift, and power consumption.
• Ensure system-level audio UX remains coherent across use cases including media, voice, and immersive playback.

Connectivity, Sensors & Experience Orchestration

• Understand Bluetooth audio pipelines, including LE Audio, LC3, Auracast, and Fast Pair.
• Coordinate with embedded and wearable teams on head tracking, IMU ingestion, and sensor fusion paths.
• Ensure platform decisions enable orchestrated, cross-device audio experiences rather than isolated features.

Stakeholder & Strategy Alignment

• Balance requirements from Android OEM partners, tuning teams, and long-term platform and licensing strategy.
• Define clear ownership boundaries between Bose software, OEM platform changes, and third-party components.
• Ensure platform investments support future ecosystem expansion and repeatable software licensing.

Required Experience

Must-Have

• 8+ years in software product management or technical product leadership.
• Experience leading system-level or platform software teams.
• Strong working knowledge of Android platform internals, especially modern Android audio.
• Proven ability to ship software tied to hardware, firmware, and OS integration.
• Technical credibility with Android framework, DSP, embedded, and Bluetooth engineers.

Preferred

• Experience with spatial audio, real-time signal processing, or acoustic tuning systems.
• Familiarity with Qualcomm and MediaTek Android audio stacks.
• Experience with Android OEM integration, AOSP-based development, or platform licensing models.

Why Join Us?

• Work on cutting-edge technologies that power next-generation experiences in consumer electronics.
• Collaborate with leading engineers, business leaders, and SoC vendors to bring Bose innovations to market.
• Be part of a startup-like environment within a globally recognized brand.
• Gain exposure to spatial audio, AI-driven voice enhancement, immersive sound, and IoT in a fast-evolving industry.

If you are passionate about shaping the future of audio and thrive in a technical, business-driven product management role, we’d love to hear from you! 

At Bose, you're inspired to be and do your best and are rewarded for your unique talents! Our compensation is thoughtfully tailored to your skills, experience, education, and location, and goes beyond base salary. The hiring range for this position in the primary work location of Framingham, Massachusetts is: $150,600-$207,150.The hiring range for other Bose work locations may vary. In addition to competitive base pay we offer rewards including bonus programs, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, plus exclusive perks designed to support your wellbeing, and a generous employee discount where you can immerse yourself in our products and experiences. We are a proudly independent company—driven by purpose, guided by our values, and united by a belief in the power of sound. As the world leader in audio experiences, we’re creating what’s next—pushing boundaries and delivering transformative sound experiences for people everywhere. Join us and make your next career move a mic-drop. Let’s Make Waves.

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