Engineering Productivity & Process Manager

This role owns the R&D site operating model and its continuous evolution toward faster, more automated, more measurable, and more competitive software delivery.
 
The EPP Manager is accountable for defining, governing, and continuously improving the R&D site operating model. The role does not own all release roadmap content or external priorities, but is accountable for ensuring that the organization can respond to roadmap volatility, late changes, and cross-site dependencies in a fast, structured, and lightweight way.
 
The EPP Manager is the accountable owner, enforcer, and approver of processes, delegating the design and implementation.
Owner, champion, and guardian of all operational processes within the development cycle.

Owner of the “Speed” – roadmap and WoW. Intention is:

• To make sure we stay fast and lightweight at the right quality/productivity balance
• We leverage AI and other productivity tooling to maximize performance and quality with an industry-leading ambition
• Drive an “automation-first” mindset
• Develop roadmap targets 

Owner and guardian of E2E lifecycle processes. Meaning: 

• QA and Dev methodology processes
• Release Qualification and Release Management processes
• We follow required standards and keep a common framework for all workstreams, including reporting, KPI’s, and metrics
• Enforce the “Speed” mindset and roadmap across the E2E lifecycle

Owner of Organizational collaboration processes, such as:

• сross-team coordination
• Architectural cross-collaboration

Development framework Owner (Currently “Program Increments”):

• Owner of PI Planning
• Owner of PI goals
• KPIs and KPI visualizations

Dynamic Change Response & Roadmap Volatility Management:

• Accountable for how the organization absorbs and responds to external changes, late requests, vehicle-project curveballs, platform updates, shifting release priorities, and dependency changes

Own the model for handling unplanned work, roadmap shifts, and external change triggers:

• Ensure fast impact assessment, prioritization, decision-making, escalation, and resolution
• Maintain transparency and traceability of change decisions across affected workstreams
• Improve organizational ability to absorb volatility at speed without compromising quality or control

• Change-oriented operational leader with strong experience from software R&D, preferably in automotive, infotainment, connected products, or similarly complex environments
• Strong background in software development lifecycle, QA, release, planning, and cross-functional delivery processes
• Proven experience driving change, process transformation, and engineering productivity improvements in complex organizations
• Strong automation-first mindset, with practical understanding of how AI and productivity tooling can improve speed, quality, transparency, and decision-making
• Ability to manage roadmap volatility, late changes, dependencies, and priority conflicts through lightweight but effective governance
• Skilled in KPI-driven improvement, stakeholder alignment, escalation, and steering-group communication