Group Manager - Autonomous Driver

Breathing in the crisp autumn air as you take a leisurely morning walk, your gather your thoughts for the day to come. Today you have an important workshop with your team to align on your delivery strategy and roadmap. Exciting times are ahead and you facilitate an energetic discussion with your team on what you all need to do to create the most desirable solution for your customers. Thinking on the plan you created together, you feel inspired and proud to be part of revolutionizing the transport industry. A very productive morning! You treat yourself and your team to a nice lunch at one of the great options around the Lundby area and simply have some time to mentally unwind while you enjoy each other’s company. The afternoon comes with a bit slower pace and after an interesting talk with one of your team members who needed your support, you have ample time to start writing those first delicate lines of the job ad you will publish in search of the next brilliant software developer to join your growing team. When time comes to wrap up the day, you feel at perfect balance and you are grateful for yet another fantastic day with your team.


Welcome to the team
The Driver domain is part of the Technology organization at Volvo Autonomous Solutions with the ambition to deliver the most desirable automated driving functionality on the market. We are a software centric domain and have the responsibility for software design, implementation, compliance and quality over the complete life cycle for the motion planning and control capability of our autonomous vehicles. We are driven by the vision that our innovations will exceed expectations from customers and contribute to a society that we want to live in.


Our domain consists of several brilliant teams, and in this role you will get the pleasure of leading ~10 of our amazing engineers focusing on motion planning algorithms allocated both off- and on-board the autonomous vehicles.


How you will make an impact
The leadership philosophy in our domain is that as a manager your primary responsibility is the people you support; ensuring that they are growing both personally and professionally, doing valuable work towards a meaningful mission, and generally having a great time while doing so. You are expected to cultivate and influence a positive and inclusive culture, facilitate the growth of a healthy tech stack, and work with your teams and other leaders in the organization on strategy and execution. Since you will be accountable for the performance and technical direction of your teams, you will have significant impact on the success of our organization and we trust your ability to inspire, support and lead both people and technology.


Are we to be a perfect match
In our domain we are truly passionate about what we do and pride ourselves with being professional, collaborative and solution oriented. We hope that you share these values and hold a creative and open mindset with a willingness to grow both yourself and those around you. If you, like us, thrive when working with new technology and strive for continuous improvements, transparency and feedback, this will be great. To inspire and guide our team we would like you to have some leadership experience and are comfortable supporting and developing people in continuous change. It probably goes without saying that we see it as important that you have excellent interpersonal and communicational skills and are fully at ease in your leadership style.


To complement and lead our team forward we believe you have ample experience of product development and are familiar with the full product lifecycle of designing, developing, testing, deploying, operating and maintaining software solutions with hardware dependencies. Your industry background might be broad, but we expect you to bring with you good insight into software development and have deployed solutions both in embedded and cloud environments. It would delight us if you have experience of probabilistic and/or deterministic algorithms and techniques for motion planning and know your way around optimization techniques and mathematics.


What is our offer to you
We can promise you great colleagues and some truly exciting opportunities for both professional and personal growth. Without a doubt this is an unique opportunity to join a fantastic team working with truly disruptive technology while at the same time being a part of the world-renowned Volvo Group.


In Volvo Autonomous Solutions we are unified by diversity, great ideas and inclusiveness and as an equal opportunity employer we strive to offer you flexibility and work-life balance whoever and wherever you are to enable high engagement and fulfillment in both your professional and personal life.


Take action
We are eager to connect with you so do not hesitate to reach out on LinkedIn, send a txt or give me a call if you are curious to know more. Finally, do not forget to send in your application in the Volvo Group career portal.


Julia Nilsson, Global Technology Manager Automated Driver, +46 739021344


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