Vehicle Development Manager

Stellantis • Auburn Hills, MI

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About The Position

The Vehicle Development Manager leads the integration and synthesis of vehicle systems to achieve performance, quality, and customer experience targets. The role serves as the technical bridge between chassis, powertrain, body, interior, and electrical teams, ensuring subsystems work together as a cohesive, optimized vehicle. The manager oversees vehicle-level attribute balancing, performance target setting, and prototype validation, and drives cross-functional alignment from concept through production launch.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related technical field.
• A minimum of 10 years of well-rounded automotive development experience.
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams through the full product lifecycle.
• Ability to work effectively with and manage direct and non-direct reports across multiple disciplines.
• Highly motivated, detail-oriented, and self-directed process thinker with well-developed problem-solving skills.
• Deep understanding of vehicle attributes, system interactions, and trade-off management.
• Ability to simplify complex engineering topics and deliver concise presentations to management and external audiences.
• Ability to make quick decisions using sound engineering logic while representing the Voice of the Customer.
• Ability to define the engineering logic behind features and systems critical to customer experience.
• Passion for cars and trucks, motorsports or vehicle recreation, and continuous innovation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading teams in vehicle integration, vehicle sciences such as dynamics or NVH, or systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead integration and synthesis of vehicle systems to achieve vehicle performance, quality, and customer experience targets.
• Coordinate across chassis, powertrain, body, interior, and electrical teams to integrate subsystems into a cohesive vehicle.
• Oversee vehicle-level attribute balancing and performance target setting.
• Oversee prototype validation.
• Drive cross-functional alignment from concept through production launch.
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams through the full product lifecycle.
• Manage direct and non-direct reports across multiple disciplines.
• Communicate complex engineering topics and present information to management and external audiences.
• Make timely engineering decisions while representing the Voice of the Customer.
• Define the engineering logic behind features and systems that are critical to the customer experience.

What This Job Offers

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