Manager, TPM / Infotainment

Responsibilities

• People Leadership
• Lead and develop a TPM team supporting hardware execution
• Foster a culture of collaboration, inclusion, transparency, and accountability
• Manage staffing, team development, hiring strategy, and performance oversight
• Support career development and enable TPM excellence across the organization
• Hardware Program Execution & Cross-Functional Alignment for Infotainment HW
• Drive the end-to-end execution of the high-compute Infotainment hardware platform, ensuring alignment across electrical, mechanical, validation, reliability, and manufacturing team for successful launch.
• Establish technical objectives and integration points with JDM partners, SoC vendors, and internal platform engineering
• Manage risk mitigation plans across thermal, power, mechanical, and validation workstreams
• Coordinate readiness for major hardware development gates (EVT, DVT, PVT)
• Supplier, JDM & Manufacturing Partner Coordination
• Oversee partner execution and ensure deliverables meet CARIAD's technical and quality requirements
• Support sourcing, BOM optimization, and manufacturability topics with supply chain teams
• Facilitate technical reviews, long-lead procurement planning, and production readiness activities
• Track supplier performance, escalate issues, and drive closure on open technical items
• Program Planning, Roadmaps & Reporting
• Define maturity expectations, milestones, and long-term hardware roadmaps in collaboration with global HPD leadership
• Build durable tools, processes, and reporting structures for hardware tracking
• Generate executive-level reporting for schedule, risk, cost, dependencies, and readiness
• Strategic Projects, Issue Resolution & Risk Management
• Lead structured problem-solving efforts during hardware bring-up, integration builds, and validation
• Drive rapid triage and cross-functional alignment on critical hardware issues
• Define and institutionalize best practices for scale across future hardware generations
• General Skills:
• Excellent communicator able to translate complex technical topics across engineering, manufacturing, and executive stakeholders
• Broad understanding of hardware platform architecture, high-compute ECU requirements, and development lifecycle
• Strong ability to motivate teams, build alignment, and foster a collaborative, productive engineering culture
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing stakeholder interests, establish clear ownership, and build trust across partner teams
• Proven success leading interdisciplinary programs involving hardware, electrical, mechanical, validation, supply chain, and manufacturing partners
• Required Skills:
• Deep knowledge of vehicle hardware development phases (EVT, DVT, PVT) and milestone expectations
• Experience driving safety, regulatory, and EMC-related deliverables for production hardware
• Strong understanding of hardware maturity levels, bring-up, validation strategies, and supplier/manufacturer readiness
• Familiarity with system-level integration between hardware, vehicle network

Additional Information

We are CARIAD , an automotive software development team with the Volkswagen Group. Our mission is to make the automotive experience safer, more sustainable, more comfortable, more digital, and more fun. To achieve that we are building the leading tech stack for the automotive industry and creating a unified software platform for over 10 million new vehicles per year. We're looking for talented, digital minds like you to help us create code that moves the world. Together with you, we'll build outstanding digital experiences and products for all Volkswagen Group brands that will transform mobility. Join us as we shape the future of the car and everyone around it. Role Summary: The Manager, Technical Program Management for Hardware Platform Development leads the planning and execution of assigned North American hardware computing platform deliverables. This role focuses on aligning internal hardware, electrical, mechanical, validation, and manufacturing teams, while coordinating closely with global engineering, JDM partners, and suppliers to ensure that high-compute vehicle platforms meet functional, performance, cost, and schedule targets. This leader is responsible for driving program clarity, defining cross-functional expectations, and ensuring timely execution across the hardware development lifecycle-from concept and prototype readiness through design validation, industrialization, and production ramp. The role also manages a team of TPMs, fostering a high-performance culture built on accountability, transparency, and collaboration. Additionally, this role serves as the Technical Program Manager for the Infotainment hardware program, owning hands-on execution of technical hardware development and working closely with cross-functional engineering teams, vehicle brands (Audi/Porsche/VW), and joint development and manufacturing partners to enable successful execution and production launch of the Infotainment hardware.

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