Line Manager - Product Design

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary unit in Product Design, comprising engineers across RF, electronics, and mechanical disciplines, responsible for the antenna design of base station antennas, embedded, and interleaved antenna systems.
• Own and manage antenna design releases for assigned products, ensuring timely delivery and compliance with Quality/Performance, Time, and Cost (QTC) objectives.
• Manage allocation of work and resources to meet program milestones, quality targets and delivery schedules
• Lead by example as a visible role model, providing regular coaching and structured mentoring to develop team members, elevate team performance, and ensure succession readiness across the organization.
• Coordinate with appointed technical leaders to align technical priorities, remove impediments and ensure consistent engineering practices.
• Own hiring, onboarding, and retention activities for the team, including workforce planning and building bench strength where needed.
• Ensureclear communication with stakeholders in Product Design, Project and Program Management, Systems and Operations; escal risks and drive mitigation actions.
• Promote and enforce safety, quality, compliance and documentation standards in labs and offices.
• Drive continuous improvement in team processes (development workflows, design reviews, verification, cross-functional handovers).

Qualifications

• Proven experience in people management (first-line manager) of engineering teams; ability to lead multidisciplinary groups.
• A Master´s or University degree in telecommunications, engineering, technology, or an equivalent qualification
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; comfortable presenting to stakeholders and negotiating priorities with cross-functional partners.
• Background or experience specifically with antenna systems preferably in base station antenna business, RF front-end components or related products.
• Demonstrated ability to plan work, manage resources, and deliver complex technical projects on time and to specification.
• Experience working with technical leads; able to balance people management with supporting technical decision-making without duplicating technical leadership.
• Problem-solving mindset, ability to identify risks early and implement pragmatic mitigation measures.
• Commitment to developing talent: coaching, mentoring and building inclusive team culture.
• Solid understanding of engineering development processes relevant to RF/mechanical/electronic/software product development and integration is nice to have .

Location: Rosenheim, Germany.

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