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

Join us as a Team Lead - Product Management (Tech Hardware) (all genders) in our Safe Autonomous Vehicle team and help shape the future of autonomous mobility! Lead MOIA’s product management for Tech Hardware within the Safe AV 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 Safe AV Tech/Hardware, balancing safety, regulatory readiness, and operational availability. Translate ODD-specific operational needs into system requirements and acceptance criteria for Safe AV components and vehicle integrations. Maintain configuration variant strategy for Safe AV HW across prototypes → pilots → scale. Own the Safe AV 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 Safe AV workstreams and suppliers; prepare/steer major product decisions and CRs. Ensure phasegate readiness and industrialisation maturity of Safe AV 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 Safe AV 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 Safe AV 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). A strong understanding of hardware and the architecture of vehicle platforms. Strong understanding of the vehicle development lifecycle and governance (requirements, industrialization, 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 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)