Senior Compliance Tooling Expert Autonomous Vehicles

About the role

As Senior Compliance Tooling Expert, you define how software tools enable and support compliance governance across the entire product lifecycle. You work at the intersection of regulatory affairs, engineering, IT, and quality to ensure product conformity as part of the product compliance management system (PCMS) and audit readiness in all deployment markets.

What you'll do

• Establish and continuously improve the end-to-end compliance tooling landscape supporting global vehicle compliance and PCMS
• Define and maintain a compliance strategy aligned with the product lifecycle and provide operational support and guidance to compliance tool users
• Evaluate, select, and continuously improve tools to enable fast and reliable extraction of compliance information for evidence and documentation management, compliance tracking, legal requests, and external and internal audits
• Support multi-market deployments, including country-specific approvals, deadlines, and applicability logic while ensuring compliant storage, traceability, and retention of regulatory evidence
• Define and maintain interfaces between compliance tools and engineering, quality, and IT systems
• Anticipate future compliance and regulatory needs and translate them into scalable tooling solutions

What you'll need

• Several years of experience in automotive regulatory compliance or product compliance in a highly regulated industry, ideally in the autonomous vehicle industry
• Strong expertise in compliance or regulatory tooling, e.g., Vanta, ideally in a complex, multi-market environment
• Experience with vehicle type approval, autonomous driving, or software-defined vehicles
• Familiarity with audits and authority interactions
• Solid understanding of data and evidence management in regulated industries
• Ability to translate regulatory and governance requirements into practical, scalable tooling solutions
• Business fluent German and English skills

What they offer

• Competitive salary (including bonus)
• Hybrid work setup with flexibility to work from home or offices
• Flexible working hours and work arrangements
• 30 vacation days, sabbatical and unpaid leave option
• Learning environment with continuous learning days, trainings, conferences, and language classes
• Mental health support and subsidized fitness or bike leasing