Head of Software Development

CEVT is an innovation centre for the future cars of the Geely Group with the purpose of being at the forefront of new developments in the automotive industry. Since 2013 CEVT has grown rapidly and now keeps some 2000 people busy. China Euro Vehicle Technology AB is a subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group.

CEVT has a dream opportunity for a leader with interest in and experience with Software development in the automotive industry and who thrives in diversity who aligns with our core values to Think Big, Find A Way, and Be Inspired.  
We are evolving our organization to achieve greater product focus, to bridge the traditional automotive vehicle projects with the greater and more rapidly evolving wireless, cloud, and data environments which requires OEMs to do Sw development inhouse. We are looking for a strong and collaborative leader who can take leadership of this evolution, to inspire our people and teams to deliver, and align our value and work with colleagues, suppliers and other stakeholders.  
The role reports to the Vice President of Feature Development and will be part of the function unit management leadership team with colleagues from Product & Services, UX, and Feature Design. Your team today consists of three sub-teams with team leaders, potentially further on you will be leading leaders when structure and way-of-working has been more set. The teams are today set up in Apps & Services, SW Platform and Cloud/Backend development teams.
We are a diverse team of people, and we have close cooperation and interaction with our colleagues in China, so you should thrive in leading diversity and working effectively across a complex and ever-changing organization. Relationships and networks will be instrumental to succeed in the role, and thus travel to China/Asia is expected on a bi-monthly basis. You should have high self-awareness and emotional intelligence, to be aware of your impact and influence on others and be open to change and try different solutions to achieve the best outcome.

Responsibilities/Tasks
* Lead and develop strategies in the functional area, including innovation of technology, process, and keep up within the latest trends.
* Setting up a framework for the SW development organization: structure & footprint including strategy for in-house/near-/offshoring.
* Be a driver for a major change of Way-of-working towards an agile yet structured approach not only within the SW organization, but also in the interface to the traditional automotive way-of-working.
* Lead and manage and develop your team, including recruitment, performance and competence development. Provide coaching and guidance to employees to ensure deliveries and personal development.  Have a strategy for key competence needs, identify gaps, and work to fill them in a good quality and cost balance.
* Be overall responsible for planning and securing the quality of all teams’ everyday deliveries.


Needed Competencies/Skills
* MSc in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or similar. 
* Leadership skills with ability to inspire, drive, motivate and coach both direct and 2nd tier reports, while working effectively with peers and colleagues.
* Experience in setting up, leading and maintaining a SW Development organization and teams, from small to large scale.
* Experience of hands-on coding, and/or SW architecture work.
* Experience automotive industry could be an advantage, but not necessarily.
* Ability to communicate clearly and be perceptive.  English is mandatory, Swedish and/or Mandarin are advantageous.
* Ability to combine strategic and operational mindset


Reporting structure
Line reporting to Vice President of Feature Development.
Last application date: 2020-04-05.
For questions about the position contact the hiring manager. For questions about the recruitment process contact the recruiter.
Kristina Larsson Djokovic, Recruiter, +46 729 88 85 44.