Senior Project Manager
Smart Eye is leading the global market for Driver Monitoring Systems, which has become a standard component in every car. Monitoring the driver behavior is safety critical both for normal driving as well as for autonomous driving. We are constantly growing and are now looking for a Senior Project Managers who want to join our team.
Your Role
We are seeking an experienced and customer-focused Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of advanced Interior Sensing software programs for global automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers. This role serves as the primary interface between customers and internal cross-functional teams, ensuring customer commitments are met while maintaining alignment with company priorities, technical capabilities, and business objectives. You bring structure and clarity to complex automotive software programs while helping teams navigate uncertainty and change.
You will be leading one or more of our developer teams, communicating with the customers and other internal stakeholders as well as setting the priorities for the team.
Responsibilities:
Customer Program Leadership
Act as the primary program management contact for assigned OEM and Tier-1 customers, leading meetings, reviews, milestones, and issue resolution.
Build trusted customer relationships and manage expectations while balancing internal resources and business priorities.
Ensure clear alignment between customer requirements, commitments, and internal execution.
Program Planning & Execution
Develop and manage program plans, schedules, deliverables, risks, budgets, and customer commitments.
Coordinate cross-functional execution across Engineering, Product Owners, Validation, Data Management, and Customer Support.
Proactively identify execution risks and resource conflicts, driving mitigation and timely delivery of releases, demos, and evaluations.
Risk & Issue Management
Proactively identify, communicate, and manage program risks, dependencies, and roadblocks.
Lead customer escalations and drive timely, solution-oriented resolution of issues.
Facilitate decision-making and ensure closure of critical actions.
Requirements & Change Management
Coordinate customer requirements, feature requests, and change requests together with Product and Sales.
Assess impact on scope, schedule, and resources, ensuring commitments and changes are documented and communicated.
Support configuration management and release planning.
Communication & Reporting
Provide clear and concise program status updates to customers and internal leadership.
Translate complex technical topics into business-oriented communication.
Maintain executive-level reporting and program documentation covering status, risks, opportunities, and key decisions.
Your qualifications:
At least Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Technical Management, or a related field.
5+ years of automotive project/program management, including customer-facing software development programs.
Proven experience working with OEM and Tier-1 customers and managing multiple complex projects.
Strong understanding of automotive development processes and product lifecycle management.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Ability to perform effectively in fast-paced customer environments and proficiency with project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project, or similar.
Interviews are held on a continuous basis, so we highly recommend that you submit your application at your earliest convenience. Welcome with your application.
Smart Eye is the global leader in Human Insight AI, technology that understands, supports and predicts human behavior in complex environments. Together with our subsidiaries Affectiva and iMotions, we are bridging the gap between humans and machines for a safe and sustainable future.
Today, our technology is embedded in next-generation vehicles, leading the way towards human-centric mobility through Driver Monitoring Systems and Interior Sensing solutions. Our Research Instruments offer unparalleled insights into automotive, aviation, assistive technology, behavioral science and many more fields.
Visit www.smarteye.ai for more information.