Patrick Schmidt

Senior Manager, Corporate Digital Product Strategy at BMW Group

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

About

Developing consumer electronic products focusing on customer needs and solving actual user problems and pain points.

Experience

  • BMW Group (10 yrs 1 mo)
    • Senior Manager, Corporate Digital Product Strategy
      Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

      Shaping BMW’s digital product strategy (focus on Infotainment) for the next decade in close cooperation with product development (from strategy to execution) and across multiple organisations within BMW.

    • Senior Program Manager, Consumer Electronics Integration
      Oct 2019 - Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      Lead of the BMW Theatre Screen software program including ~15 cross-functional development teams around the globe (USA, China and across Europe) and in cooperation with the global CE partner Amazon.

    • Senior Product Owner, Consumer Electronics Integration
      Jul 2016 - Sep 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      Product Owner for Apple CarPlay, the BMW application framework (a key enabler for BMW Connected Services and Apps on BMW OS 7.0) and a cloud-based Infotainment platform pre-development project in cooperation with Microsoft and Amazon. Responsible for the ramp-up and enablement of several professional software development teams for the BMW Group joint venture Critical TechWorks in Portugal. Software Product Portfolio Management for a software development department of ~60 people. Team lead for 10 software developers and software architects on a temporary assignment (stand-in) for around 1 year.

  • Project Manager, Surround View at Continental
    Sep 2014 - Jun 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Software project lead for an international team (the majority of it located in the UK) developing functions and algorithms for state of the art in-car Surround View / 360 degree camera systems delivered to AUDI.

  • Product Owner, Consumer Electronics Integration at e.solutions GmbH
    Nov 2012 - Aug 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Development of the next generation Infotainment systems for AUDI and the Volkswagen Group, like the Android based Audi tablet. Project management consultant at Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A Italy - Instrument cluster development for Lamborghini Huracán.

  • Nokia Mobile Phones (Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
    • Product Owner, Application platform
      Aug 2011 - Oct 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Product Owner in Nokia Mobile Phones Ulm developing mobile applications based on an innovative Linux/Qt based operating system.   Accountable for application enablers intended for Localization (L10N), Internationalization (I18N) and settings as well as for creating and maintaining the platform language roadmap based on the market needs.

    • Technical Project Manager, Mobile Application development
      Oct 2008 - Jul 2011 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Technical project manager and main interface towards international partners for 3rd party and in-house mobile application development like the Nokia Store across multiple organizations within Nokia. Key projects: Nokia Store client and first time use application for several mobile devices like Nokia X3, C2, C3 and the Nokia Asha series.  Various projects related to graphical content creation (themes, wallpapers…) for several Nokia S40 products.