Role Summary

The Product Engineering Manager (PEM) within the Development Engineering team is responsible for the successful development of automotive electronic products and leads the cross functional development team from concept to production within project and company mandated targets. The Product Engineering Manager is the key interface for all technical/engineering topics including product specification & requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the product development in an assigned project
• Own the product design. Review and approve engineering work products
• Develop effort estimates and engineering timing plans per internal and external milestones, expected work products, and product deliveries
• Manage and support the definition of requirements, change requests, and unwritten requirements
• Review, track, communicate and approve product Verification and Validation test status
• Responsible to communicate development status using dashboards, charts and reports to management
• Manage engineering risks, report status, prepare contingency and mitigation plans and execute corrective actions
• Initiates escalation of unmitigated technical issues to engineering management
• Responsible to actively pursue cost savings ideas
• Lead and prioritize day-to-day activities of the technical project team
• Facilitate all cross functional design reviews (DFA/DFM/DFT, HSIS, ME/EE, etc.)
• Ensures engineering targets (quality, delivery timing, performance, product BOM Costs, etc.) for product deliverables are met on-time
• Supports engineering quote response for new projects
• Responsible for the consolidation of engineering estimation efforts, cost and timing impact of change requests.
• Participates in continuous improvement efforts, researches, recommends and initiates implementation of enhancements to products, processes and programs

Key Qualifications/Requirements

Required Training /Education:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering (EE, CS) - Master’s degree a plus

Required Experience:

• Minimum of 7 years deep and relevant experience in the automotive electronics industry.
• Minimum of 3 years of demonstrated experience in a technical leadership role is required. Leading a global team is a plus
• Proven track record of successful launches of automotive products
  

Additional Information

• Deep and comprehensive knowledge of product development engineering practices in automotive field
• Deep knowledge of the automotive software development process, experience with SOC a plus
• Demonstrated decision making capability with a strong technical background
• Hands on approach when required
• Strong technical background. Understands needs of systems, optics, electrical, mechanical and software engineers for successful product execution
• Comprehensive working knowledge of configuration management, project planning, monitoring and control techniques. PMP certification a plus.
• Able to lead and motivate a diverse, global team
• Able to represent technical topics internally and externally
• Excellent communication skills to all internal and external interfaces
• Travel (domestic and international) may be needed
• Positive attitude and self-motivated under all working conditions (thrives under pressure)
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office package
• Business level of English / Native level of Japanese