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

About the role

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'll 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).
• Lead and grow a Safe AV Tech/Hardware Product Management team (PMs/TPMs/System PMs).

What you'll need

• 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).
• 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.

What they offer

• Competitive salary (including bonus)
• Hybrid work setup with flexibility to work from home or offices
• Flexible working hours and work arrangements
• Fully subsidized Deutschlandticket for commuting throughout Germany
• Learning environment with continuous learning days, trainings, coaching, and conferences
• 30 vacation days, sabbatical and unpaid leave option