Experienced Team Manager at AD & ADAS Platform

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

Your leadership will make a difference
At Volvo Cars, we are always looking for great leaders with the ability and ambition to bring out the best in people. If you want to be part of our exciting mission to redefine the automotive industry and our products, by leading and inspiring your team to success, then we have a job for you.
What’s in it for you?
The ultimate purpose of the development within AD & ADAS Platform is to save lives. Our main contribution is to provide a very capable perception platform that enables world class AD & ADAS applications. This has been an exciting and expanding technology area for several years now, but more capable sensing systems, access to powerful centralized compute, data driven development including use of AI etc are about to boost AD & ADAS even further. So, we are in for a continued exciting and challenging journey with great awards to achieve.

The complete department currently consist of almost 200 ambitious and skilled engineers and is responsible from research and advanced engineering to implementation, verification, and validation of current and future generations of our products. The product development is organized in two Agile Release Trains (ART’s) with focus on Protective Safety and AD & ADAS platform development respectively, using a scaled agile setup.
We are looking for a Team Manager to join the leadership team at AD & ADAS Platform
As a result of our continuous growth over the last few years, we need to expand the leadership team with additional leaders and are establishing two new Team Manager positions within our ART AD & ADAS Platform. This is the bigger of the two ARTs with close to 150 engineers lead by (soon to be) six Team Managers.
We work with state-of-the-art sensors (cameras, radars, lidars, ultrasonic sensors) and build a service-based perception platform that we evolve over time. We work in close collaboration with the Release Trains focusing on ADAS & AD feature/application development, as well as with our suppliers.
This new position will be stationed at our Lund office, where we have our core team of SW-developers working with vision perception and other building blocks for our low-speed maneuvering perception platform. The second position will be in Göteborg/Torslanda (separate Job posting).
What will you do?
As a leader at Volvo Cars, you help create an open and trusting environment where we build on people’s strengths. We are purpose driven, inspire each other to teamwork and recognize achievements. We use our curiosity and engagement as energy into our continuous transformation journey, staying relevant in an ever-changing world.
You will be an agile servant engineering manager who leads and expand the capability of the teams in close collaboration with the Scrum master, Product Owner and the rest of the department leadership team, while securing a strategic outlook on technology, competence, and future business. You will work with your team members to develop and coach them to their fullest potential. You will recruit highly skilled individuals in line with identified capability and competence needs. And you will collaborate with your colleagues in the leadership team making sure we bring out the best of our organisation, while enjoying our work.

Do you fit the profile?
To be successful in this job, we see that you have at least 5-10 years of relevant work experience as a leader within Active Safety and/or embedded SW development.
You should have a strong interest in leadership, developing people and agile way of working! We also see that you have a technical background with preferably hands on experience within respective field and an academic background and education on MSc level or equivalent. SW development experiences is extra important for this position. You also need to be fluent in English (spoken and written).
Who are you?
We think you are an inclusive, communicative, collaborative and team-oriented leader with a high customer focus. You are curious and continuously searching for new knowledge!
Being a leader in AD & ADAS aiming towards our Zero Collision vision, require a somewhat entrepreneurial approach, i.e. rather than waiting for direction, you must take the initiative, see the opportunities in setting direction, and adjust when needed.
The main objective in these manager roles, is leading the team and developing individuals. Technical experience is important, but we will look very closely to your leadership skills and personality.

Location: Sweden, Lund