Senior Technical Program Manager

Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by a legacy of innovating for the benefit of others, our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation — expanding what “mobility” means and how it serves society.
Our work centers on four pillars: AD/ADAS, our autonomous driving and advanced driver assist technologies; Arene, our software development platform for software-defined vehicles; Woven City, a test course for mobility; and Cloud & AI, the digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation. Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute, and together, we’re working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.
TEAMCreating high-quality automated driving systems or advanced driver assistance systems is both challenging and urgent. It's crucial to meticulously design software architecture, development processes, environments, and testing methodologies to meet this goal.
Our team has two primary objectives: establishing and enhancing software development standards for autonomous compliance by engineers, and ensuring that development activities across teams are conducted properly, resulting in high-quality outputs. We believe that active engagement and effective communication, coupled with expertise in international standards, process models, software technologies, and development management, are essential to drive these initiatives forward.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?We are seeking exceptional technical program managers/engineers to establish a system for ensuring the safety and quality of our products. This role involves collaboration with various teams, including system design, architecture, development, testing, project management, and other stakeholders across our group companies. The ideal candidate will be adaptable, capable of developing solutions across teams, and will apply their experience in software quality management. Strong relationship-building skills with team members and stakeholders are crucial.
You will report to the Team Lead of Global Process Engineering, and this role is hybrid - you will work in the office 3+ days per week.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Process Definition, Implementation & Improvement: Define, implement, and continuously improve software development processes specifically for ADAS programs, ensuring alignment with ASPICE, ISO 26262, SOTIF, etc. Support developers to tailor their development process to make it compliant.
• Program Quality Strategy & Planning: Collaborate with program management and engineering teams to define and integrate quality assurance strategies and process frameworks into program plans from initiation through execution and delivery.
• Identify broad issues, extract key problems, and develop solution plans. Visualize data using graphical tools and implement data-driven process improvements.
• Stakeholder Management & Communication: Act as a primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders on process and quality-related matters. Effectively communicate process requirements, audit findings, improvement initiatives, and quality metrics.
• Process Coaching & Mentoring: Provide coaching, training, and guidance to program teams on defined processes, best practices, and the application of relevant standards.
• Process Improvement support: Identify areas for process improvement through communication and agreement with stakeholders. Subsequently, Plan, conduct, and manage internal process assessments to ensure adherence to defined procedures and standards. Support teams with the timely closure of findings. Generate audit reports for management, presenting the findings, identified problems, and proposed corrective measures.
• Guidance for Requirements & Design: Provide guidance and support to program teams on ensuring the quality and testability of system/software requirements, architecture, and design documents. Participate in reviews.
• Continuous Improvement Leadership: Proactively identify opportunities for improving software quality, development efficiency, and process effectiveness across the ADAS portfolio. Lead and facilitate process improvement initiatives.
• Cultivate relationships with customers and suppliers in the US and Japan to establish a collaborative system/software engineering process.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience in improving engineering processes related to software/systems development, or comparable experience within the automotive sector.
• Experience in leading Issue resolution activity for mass production
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, problem-finding skills, with a keen attention to detail
• Experience