Senior Manager, Vehicle Concept and Architecture

• Owns and drives the definition of vehicle concept and architecture strategy for future China-fit products, ensuring alignment with market needs, brand positioning, while closely collaborating with global platform teams and contributing China-specific inputs to the global product portfolio.
• Leads early-phase (fuzzy front end) development by translating design vision and market input into feasible, manufacturable, and cost-efficient engineering solutions.
• Acts as a key integrator between design, engineering, product planning, and manufacturing, ensuring robust architecture definition and cross-functional alignment.
• Drives China-specific competitive benchmarking and architecture research, transforming insights into actionable recommendations for future vehicle concepts and platform strategies.
• Establishes and continuously improves a structured, repeatable concept development process, enabling faster and higher-quality decision-making in early development phases.

Description of tasks

1. Management\:
The management, motivation and development of staff using HR tools, founded on our mission statement & corporate values, and provision of purposeful internal communications in order to achieve the agreed objectives.
Ensuring that the necessary training appropriate to the needs of individual employees and the tasks assigned to them is provided.
Informing subordinated employees about the relevant provisions and instructing them to comply with the provisions. Ensuring that they are implemented properly.

2.Vehicle Concept & Architecture Definition\:
Define and steer overall vehicle architecture concepts for new vehicle programs, including platform definition, hardpoints, packaging strategy, and modularity approach.
Lead early-stage feasibility studies to translate design concepts into engineering solutions, ensuring technical feasibility and alignment with attribute targets (e.g. weight, cost, ergonomics, performance).
Own key architectural decisions and ensure consistency across vehicle systems and domains.

3.China Market Benchmark & Architecture Research\:
Lead systematic benchmarking of competitor vehicle architectures in the China market.
Drive in-depth research on emerging architecture trends (e.g. CTB/CTC integration, modular platforms, advanced manufacturing solutions).
Translate insights into architecture strategies, concept proposals, and technical roadmap inputs for future products.

4.Cross-functional Integration & Decision Steering\:
Act as the central interface between design, engineering, product planning, and manufacturing in concept phase.
Drive design-to-engineering feasibility reviews and resolve trade-offs across cost, performance, and manufacturability.
Ensure alignment of architecture definition with product strategy and industrialization constraints.

5. Digital Development & Process Establishment\:
Establish and maintain architecture databases (e.g. master sections, key characteristics, benchmark data).
Drive digital development processes (DMU maturity, concept validation, simulation-supported decisions).
Develop and implement standardized concept development processes suitable for agile R&D environments.

6. Stakeholder Management & Strategic Alignment\:
Manage stakeholders across global and cross-functional organizations.
Present and align architecture proposals with management and decision bodies.
Maintain close collaboration with global platform teams.