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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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 subsidized "Deutschlandticket") for commuting and travelling throughout Germany and discount on MOIA rides
• Subsidized 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
• Reloc

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Additional Information

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.

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