Project Lead - Automotive

Do you want to shape the world of tomorrow and work on innovative projects? Then you're a good fit for us! We are a global engineering group with 15,000 employees and 140 locations worldwide. With our services, we are driving the topics of energy efficiency, climate protection and decarbonization and developing tech industries into new dimensions.

In the United States, the world of SEGULA Technologies Experts revolves around industries such as automotive, software, energy and life sciences. As an independent player, we support OEMs and suppliers with personal engineering services. Take advantage of new opportunities and take on exciting tasks and attractive positions with direct customer assignment.

You will function as the central pivot of our engineering ecosystem. You are responsible for navigating the high-stakes intersection of OEM requirements, technical feasibility, and rigorous delivery timelines. You will go beyond mere coordination, providing the architectural and methodological leadership necessary to deliver safety-critical automotive systems.

Executive Responsibilities

• Strategic Stakeholder Alignment: Serve as the primary, high-level interface with the OEM Product Owner. You will manage complex negotiations regarding scope, roadmap prioritization, and feature trade-offs, ensuring that the technical vision aligns with the client’s commercial milestones.

• Deliverable Integrity & Quality Governance: Act as the final authority for quality gate transitions. You are responsible for ensuring that all deliverables exceed ASPICE, ISO 26262, or Cyber Security standards, maintaining a "zero-defect" transition from development to production-ready status.

• Agile Governance & Transformation: Lead the evolution of the Agile framework within the project. Beyond managing Sprints, you will optimize team velocity, manage cross-functional dependencies in a Scaled Agile environment (SAFe), and foster a culture of continuous integration and rapid feedback loops.

• Risk Mitigation & Technical Steering: Proactively identify systemic risks in the development lifecycle. You will steer the project through critical technical hurdles, ensuring that resource allocation is optimized for high-impact milestones.

• Senior Industry Tenure: 8–10+ years of experience in automotive project management, specifically within R&D or complex software/systems development.

• OEM Management: Proven track record as the central pivot managing high-stakes interfaces with major Automotive OEMs or Tier 1 suppliers.

• Full Lifecycle Ownership: Extensive experience overseeing the entire automotive product lifecycle, from initial concept and SOP (Start of Production) to post-launch maintenance.

• Strategic Decision-Making: Ability to negotiate scope, trade-offs, and resource allocation directly with senior Product Owners and executive stakeholders.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.