Senior Manager, Software Engineering

VW. Two letters. Endless opportunities. A bright future.

Innovation. Sophistication. Optimization. This is our Passion.

Worldwide, the Volkswagen Group has a long tradition of dramatic innovations. The Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg is one of the world's leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. The Group comprises twelve brands from seven European countries: Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Audi, SEAT, KODA, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ducati, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Scania and MAN. Here in the US, we are blending German engineering with American ingenuity.

As ADMT, we develop and realize fully autonomous mobility and transportation services. Our mission is to make mobility-and transportation-as-a-service safe, accessible and most attractive for society. For that, we cover the entire ground from strategy and business development, software development and end-2-end integration, fleet operations to next-generation self-driving systems. Being the driver in Volkswagen Group initiative for mobility solutions, we are an integral part of Volkswagen Group's future success.

Role Summary

The ADMT LLC has awesome teams distributed across the US and Europe. As the Sr Mgr, Software Engineering, you will be responsible for the technical teams, including building up new teams and structures. You support the teams in finding the right balance between technical excellence, maintaining a high customer focus and reliably deliver product increments. The role includes technical leadership as well as people management.

The engineering teams use modern languages (e.g., Kotlin, TypeScript) in combination with cloud services (e.g., AWS DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, RDS and Kubernetes) and are responsible for the discovery of what product increment to deliver next, as well as the full software lifecycle, including testing and operating the services ("you build it, you run it").

Role Responsibilities

Fleet Management System and ADMT Cloud development

* Build, form and lead some world-class teams and their engineering managers in a servant leadership style

* Taking an active role in shaping and developing the tech architecture and culture

* Collaborate proactively with multiple (distributed) teams (US & Europe)

* Influence the product roadmap for the ADMT US offer

* Deliver SW products, microservices, architectures for the US Go to market for ADMT for MaaS and TaaS offers.

* Translate business and product requirements in SW solutions

* Oversees all the SW production releases

* Contributes to the SW development roadmap, strategic planning, production rollout planning

* Supports in tailoring and deploy software tools, processes and metrics

* Creates a culture to deploy software incrementally to meet very fast-paced development

Strategy & Operational Management

* Develops strategy & technology competence and provide expertise support to Global ADMT teams for Fleet Management solutions and ADMT Cloud.

* Spearheads new in-house development projects for various technical domains

* Own the relationship with contract manufacturer, and lead strategic discussions and negotiations

* Manages supplier partnerships and engagements

* Identify and mitigate project technology risks and execution risks

* Locates, acquires, and retains extraordinary talent for the ramp-up phase of the Engineering Team and for future growth

* Monitor compliance with relevant regulations, statutes, Board Directives, process standards (including in respect of Golden Rules and Product Compliance), procedural/operating instructions and occupational safety regulations using appropriate management controls (dual-control principle)

* Develop and monitor department budget

* Assure the qualification of employees for the defined tasks

Years of Relevant Experience:

* 10+ years of professional experience, including automotive or related experience

* 3+ year of experience managing technical direction, regardless of direct management

* Preferred: 2+ years in the autonomous vehicle space with direct experience in L4 autonomy systems required

Education:

* Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or comparable education required

* Master's or PhD Degree in Engineering or comparable education preferred

Required General Skills:

* Excellent team leadership, resource management and conflict resolutions skills.

* Excellent written, communication and presentation skills with top management, internal / external partners, stakeholders, and project affiliates.

* Excellent English language skills.

* Ability to understand and extract action plans from complex technical discussions and translate into succinct messaging for cross-functional status reporting.

* Exceptional understanding of technical systems and architecture, with the ability to think beyond current reality, and define future requirements to ensure the extensibility of the system.

* Self-motivated, flexible individual with high degree of innovation, ownership and accountability for results.

* Ability to work globally and cross-functionally to ensure necessary project support and prioritization.

* Strong initiative, and excellent influencing and negotiation skills.

* Analytical, strategical and conceptual thinking - using logic and reason.

* Strong process orientation.

* Able to continuously question and challenge the status-quo, always documenting and applying the lessons learned.

* Strong desire to learn and close knowledge gaps related to technology used in the product.

* Prolific foresight to spot future problems before they happen, so they do not block progress.

* Able to work in a highly dynamic, multi-disciplinary, timeline bound and target oriented global work environment.

* Able to continuously question and challenge the status-quo, always documenting and applying the lessons learned.

* Effectively lead others across a broad range of technologies, processes, and systems, across diverse cultures and geographies.

* Ability to recruit and retain top-tier talent.

Knowledge or certifications unique to this role

* Deep understanding of building digital products and modern software development

* Knowledge of software platform development and corresponding software. Experienced with introduction into mass production of the same.

* Having a strong focus and past hands-on experts experience in technical architecture and enabling teams in their delivery

* Strong network in engineering community to hire extraordinary talent SW development

Desired Specialized Skills:

* Expert Experience in SW architectures & development in autonomous Ride Hailing/Ride Pooling technologies

* Rapid prototyping and validation

* Approaches for cloud oriented mobile internet applications

* User-interface architecture for mobile and automotive systems

* Ability to communicate on/to top-management level

* Project management of large, complex multi-party projects

Work Flexibility:

* Accommodation for working time zone differences between international locations as needed

* Travel is estimated to be 10-25%.

* Role requires flexibility in daily schedule, including early morning meetings with Europe, evenings for the West Coast, and weekends for events and travel

In Belmont, CA, this position has an expected base salary range between $245,000-$265,000.

Volkswagen Group of America is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds, and do not discriminate based on race, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, color, gender identity/expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

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