Product Manager – EV Fleet Management Platform (Shanghai / Europe)

Location: Shanghai / Europe
Working arrangement: Hybrid, with travel to depots and customer sites

Aurora Engineering is looking for an experienced Product Manager to lead a digital fleet-management platform for electric vans, light commercial vehicles and heavy-duty trucks.

You will turn connected-vehicle data into practical tools that help fleet operators manage dispatch, charging, maintenance, drivers and operating costs. The role combines product strategy, customer discovery and delivery, with a strong focus on adoption and measurable business outcomes.

Your responsibilities

• Own product strategy and delivery: Define the roadmap, pricing and packaging, addressing the distinct needs of van, light-commercial and heavy-duty fleets. Prioritise scalable features and manage competing customer requests.

• Understand fleet operations: Work directly with fleet managers, dispatchers, depot supervisors, drivers and finance teams. Observe real operations and translate findings into product requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Develop core fleet workflows: Lead functionality for real-time monitoring, dispatch, multi-drop routing, shift handovers, utilisation, maintenance, uptime, driver management and scorecards. Support cost allocation and settlement per vehicle and trip.

• Lead charging and energy features: Address depot scheduling, load limits, time-of-use tariffs, home and public charging, roaming, settlement and Plug & Charge. Define where the platform controls operations and where it provides recommendations.

• Improve battery and range insights: Develop SOC/SOH visibility, duty-cycle-based range prediction, low-charge and degradation alerts, and battery-health inputs for asset and residual-value assessment.

• Define data and integrations: Work with engineering on vehicle signals, APIs and data contracts. Coordinate integrations with TMS, WMS, ERP, charging operators and OEM systems, considering standards such as GB/T 32960, OCPP, OCPI and ISO 15118.

• Build in compliance and security: Address privacy, cross-border data requirements, battery traceability/passports and relevant vehicle access and weight restrictions.

• Drive launch and adoption: Run pilots, define activation and retention metrics, support sales and service teams, and turn customer feedback into prioritised improvements.

Your background

Direct fleet-management domain experience is essential. You will bring:

• Experience either operating a commercial fleet or delivering fleet-management software at a telematics, connected-services or fleet-SaaS provider.

• A practical understanding of the full operating cycle: dispatch, charging, maintenance, driver issues and month-end settlement.

• Strong van and last-mile delivery knowledge, including multi-drop routes, shift handovers, shared vehicles and charging constraints.

• At least five years of product-management experience, including two years owning a B2B SaaS or connected-vehicle product, with examples of roadmaps you set and outcomes you delivered.

• Working knowledge of AC/DC charging, load management, roaming, energy costs, battery behaviour and real-world range constraints.

• Strong data and API literacy, including vehicle signal definitions, data contracts and SQL or BI analysis.

• Evidence of measurable improvements in adoption, activation, retention, uptime or operating costs.

• A degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Logistics, Business or a related discipline.

• Fluent written and spoken English is required. Proficiency in Chinese and/or an additional European language is an advantage, depending on the regional scope of the role.

• Willingness to spend time at depots and customer sites. This product cannot be designed at the desk.

Additional advantages

• Experience both operating fleets and developing fleet-management software.

• Last-mile or express-delivery operations experience.

• Leasing products and residual-value modelling.

• Charging networks, energy tariffs, demand response or vehicle-to-grid services.

• CILT, AFP, PMP or equivalent qualifications.

• Chinese–English bilingual capability and European market experience.