Manager, Validation & Verification

Scout Motors • Columbia, SC

21h • Onsite

About The Position

Scout Motors is reviving an iconic American vehicle brand, electrifying and digitizing it with American innovation. The company respects the past and future, communities, work and play, and its customers. Scout Motors empowers its talented, inclusive, and entrepreneurial teams to innovate. Employees are expected to be visionaries, leaders, knowledgeable doers, collaborators, and passionate go-getters. Joining Scout Motors means shaping the future of transportation and making history.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering or related field with 10+ years of experience.
• Extensive experience in vehicle validation, verification, and testing within the automotive industry.
• Proven experience defining validation strategies and leading full vehicle validation programs.
• Strong expertise in requirements traceability and ALM tools, including Codebeamer (or equivalent such as Jama, DOORS,).
• Experience owning DVP&R development and validation execution at vehicle level.
• Strong understanding of vehicle development lifecycle from prototype through production.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical data into executive-level insights and decisions.
• Expertise in data-driven problem solving, issue management, and process optimization.
• Integrity, curiosity, resourcefulness, positive attitude, and growth mindset.
• Comfort with change and flexibility in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Collaborative approach to achieve ambitious goals.

Responsibilities

• Establish and govern the overall vehicle-level validation strategy, including scope definition, test methodologies, resource allocation, and tool selection.
• Define validation frameworks ensuring comprehensive coverage of functional and non-functional requirements across all vehicle domains.
• Ensure alignment between validation strategy and evolving product requirements, including early validation through simulation and virtual methods.
• Drive standardization of validation processes, KPIs, and reporting across program.
• Own end-to-end DVP&R definition and governance within Codebeamer, ensuring full traceability between requirements, test cases, and validation results across all levels.
• Define, document, and align vehicle-level test cases with cross-functional teams, ensuring formal sign-off and linkage to requirements across the full requirement hierarchy.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure requirements are validated, traceable, and aligned with verification and validation activities.
• Govern validation scorecards and KPIs, providing weekly visibility into validation status, risks, and readiness to leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement of digital workflows to increase efficiency, reduce manual errors, and strengthen release confidence.
• Lead procurement and lifecycle management of measurement systems, ensuring compliance with technical standards and cost efficiency.
• Define required signals, instrumentation, and data acquisition systems to support validation objectives.
• Oversee validation tools, data systems, and test environments to support scalable program execution.
• Negotiate and manage contracts for proving grounds and external testing partners across North America.
• Define validation environments including proving grounds, public road, and climate conditions (cold, hot, humid) to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Develop long-term strategies for validation capacity, utilization, and strategic partnerships.
• Own validation of vehicle-level targets and requirements, including definition, benchmarking, and performance evaluation across key attributes.
• Oversee functional and durability validation programs, ensuring alignment with vehicle performance targets and regulatory requirements.
• Direct validation across all vehicle build phases (AGT, prototype, pre-series), ensuring readiness for production and launch.
• Actively participate in MST (Module/Sub-System Team) forums, integrating validation requirements into development and driving alignment across cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ensure validation readiness aligns with integration milestones and program timing.
• Authorize functional and non-functional product releases from a validation and verification perspective.
• Drive cross-functional alignment between engineering, quality, and program management for release readiness.
• Approve vehicle-level changes and manage re-validation and re-certification processes.
• Provide executive-level reporting to CTO and senior leadership, including risk assessments, KPIs, and validation status.
• Translate complex technical risks into clear go/no-go recommendations for vehicle releases and program milestones.

Benefits

• Competitive insurance including: Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans.
• 401(k) program with an employer match and immediate vesting.
• Generous Paid Time Off including: 20 days planned PTO, as accrued.
• 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders.
• Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave.
• Corporate Vehicle Program with: Eligibility for 1 assigned vehicle and a mobility stipend.
• Pay Transparency.
• Annual performance bonus program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager