Senior Director Enabling ART & Solution Support - Safe Vehicle Automation

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.

Senior Director Enabling ART & Solution Support – Safe Vehicle Automation
Our Vision is clear - we imagine that our friends, families, and children are transported in a personal, sustainable, and safe way. What we build is a self-driving, fully electric, connected, and super safe Volvo Car that will save millions of lives. 
The leadership team of Safe Vehicle Automation are looking for a new team member that can take up the role as Senior Director for our Enabling ART and Solution Support team.  
If you’re looking for a challenge and eager to help us transform into the future, this is the role for you.
About 96000 Safe Vehicle Automation
We are a unit within R&D with around ~700 employees with a purpose to Ensure Safe, Controlled & Efficient Mobility.
We are guided by our new vision Zero Collisions, and we shall secure leadership within Active Safety, where unsupervised driving (AD) is our final step. In addition, we should deliver a world class Vehicle Motion experience and target leading in energy efficiency (BEVs) and continue to deliver best in class Protective Safety, enabled by a future usage of the platform capabilities.
One important step in achieving our goals is to transform into a true SW company. With a service-oriented architecture at the center, we enable a stable foundation / eco-system for innovative feature growth, and we target to become flow optimized from a developer perspective – where data and an efficient CI are prioritized.
About 96400 Enabling ART & Solution Support
Enabling ART provide capabilities allowing SVA to be a world class SW development and release organization with high standards on quality assurance facilitated by state-of-the-art test environments and data acquisition to be able to continuously integrate and deploy safe, liable and structured SW for SVA and affiliated.
Solution support consists of experienced leaders with a variety of tasks, all with the purpose to assist cross the solution. Solution support lead and provide guidance within business liaison, quality metrics incl. field quality, cost reduction while also handling the solution integration management and keeping together the aggregated SVA strategy roadmap.
We are now looking for a new Senior Director for 96400 Enabling ART & Solution Support
You will part of SVA leadership team and will have an important role in our ability to deliver as a Solution.

Who are you:
We think you have a Master of Science degree or higher with work life experience and technical knowledge in SW engineering, preferably with focus on continuous integration and deployment, virtual test environments and SW & Data infrastructure. Great leader and people management experience with strong collaboration and communication skills in combination with experience from working in a diverse and international company.
As a person you are forward leaning, collaborative, pro-active and wants to contribute to a larger purpose.
You have been a manager-of-managers before and know what it takes to build great leaders. You are someone that fully embrace a growth mindset and have the ability to encourage others to do the same.
A compassionate person who understand that every individual and situation has their specific needs, and can adapt your leadership style and interactions accordingly.
Someone who like to have fun at work, and take great care in making sure everyone always feels welcome and included!
Requirements
As a leader for a team this you must be good at leading experienced leaders, finding a common agenda and vision, although the different tasks may not overlap with each other. 
Competencies/Experience/Skills Required:
* MSc degree or higher in engineering
* Automotive embedded engineering experience
* Preferably experience within the ADAS domain
* Experience from leading leaders
* Great business accumen

Interest and application
We are curious what you think about the future.
To apply, please register your profile at our career site and attach your application documents as soon as possible since recruitment is ongoing. 
Please note that applications by e-mail will not be accepted due to GDPR. 
As we use our own channels for recruitment, we respectfully but strictly decline to be contacted for any offer of recruitment assistance from external companies.