Team Lead - Product Management – SafeAV (Tech & Hardware) (all genders)

Join us as a Team Lead - Product Management (Tech & Hardware)

Lead MOIA’s product management for Tech & Hardware within the SafeAV domain, owning the vision, roadmap, and delivery steering for the vehicle side, safety‑critical, and operationally critical systems that enable a scalable autonomous driving vehicle platform. This role translates operational and regulatory needs into clear, system‑level product definitions and drives cross‑functional delivery with vehicle engineering, AD L4 /Digital Driver teams, suppliers, and MOIA operations.

What you will do

• Define the multiyear product vision and roadmap for SafeAV Tech/Hardware, balancing safety, regulatory readiness, and operational availability.
• Translate ODD‑specific operational needs into system requirements and acceptance criteria for SafeAV components and vehicle integrations.
• Maintain configuration & variant strategy for SafeAV HW across prototypes → pilots → scale.
• Own the SafeAV product definition (requirements, KPIs, trades) for redundancy concepts, actuation paths, E/E hosting, power/thermal, and safety‑critical HMI components.
• Run product change control boards, decision logs, and escalation paths across SafeAV workstreams and suppliers; prepare and steer major product decisions and CRs.
• Ensure phasegate readiness and industrialisation maturity of SafeAV hardware (spec → design → validation → series introduction, as applicable).
• Track schedule, quality, performance; surface deviations early and drive mitigations.
• Coordinate safety case closure with Functional Safety, SOTIF, and Systems Engineering; align with homologation and regulatory stakeholders for approvals.
• Co‑lead supplier selection for SafeAV hardware; negotiate technical KPIs, acceptance criteria, delivery milestones, and change mechanisms.
• Ensure supplier roadmaps meet redundancy, reliability, diagnostics, and maintainability targets for fleet operations.
• Lead and grow a SafeAV Tech/Hardware Product Management team (PMs/TPMs/System PMs).
• Build a culture of technical depth, clarity, and decisive tradeoffs; coach PMs on requirements quality, safety mindset, and stakeholder alignment.

What will help you to fulfill your role

• 8–10+ years in automotive/robotics hardware product or program management in safety‑constrained environments; track record from prototype to industrialisation.
• 5+ years of people‑leadership experience (leading teams, coaching, hiring, performance management).
• Strong understanding of hardware and the architecture of vehicle platforms.
• Strong understanding of the vehicle development lifecycle and governance (requirements, industrialisation, quality gates). Experience with VW PEP or a similar process is a plus.
• Understanding of cost drivers and their continuous optimisation with focus on the operational phase from design and development over production to operations.
• Understanding of modern software development and delivery practices (Agile, CI/CD, SAFe) and how they interact with vehicle development constraints.
• Strong systems engineering literacy (vehicle E/E, actuation, redundancy, diagnostics).
• Experience steering multisupplier programs with contractual deliverables and acceptance criteria; capable of negotiating scope/cost/risk allocation.
• Excellent communication across engineers, executives; ability to present complex trades and drive decisions.
• Fluent English; German a plus.

Nice to have

• Background interfacing with AD/AV stack teams (requirements to/from sensors & compute hosting).
• Experience with fleet operations and design for service ability/diagnostics.
• Understanding of mobility service user needs where they intersect safety/operational availability.

We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds — even if you don’t meet every requirement. If you’re excited about the role and MOIA’s mission, we’d love to hear from you!

Our benefits in a nutshell

• Competitive salary (including bonus)
• Hybrid work setup: Work from home or one of our offices - you and your team decide how often to meet, blending flexibility with collaboration!
• Flexible working hours and the possibility of flexible work arrangements depending on your needs (parenting, care work, volunteering, etc.)
• Budget and monthly expense allowance for home office setup
• Possibility of remote work from outside Germany for up to 6 weeks per year from over 35 countries – learn more in our blog!
• Public transport ticket (fully subsidised "Deutschlandticket") for commuting and travelling throughout Germany and discount on MOIA rides
• Subsidised fitness club membership or bike leasing
• Learning environment with continuous learning days, job rotation, trainings and workshops, coaching, conferences, books, and language classes
• Mental health support, 1:1 sessions with external professionals and mental unload workshops
• 30 vacation days, sabbatical and unpaid leave option
• Relocation support with service provider (visa, administration, etc.)
• Dog‑friendly offices

We are a member of Charta der Vielfalt and are dedicated to actively fostering a workplace that celebrates and promotes diversity in various aspects such as age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or cognitive ability, and ethnicity.

In our commitment to promoting diversity and inclusivity, we regularly provide unconscious bias training to all our employees. We strive to continuously enhance our hiring process by ensuring a diverse hiring panel.

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