Senior Vehicle Transition & Readiness Manager
Join us as a Senior Vehicle Transition & Readiness Manager (all genders) in our Global Vehicle Management Team and help shape the future of autonomous mobility!
MOIA's Global Vehicle Management Team ensures on‑time fleet deployment, smooth vehicle commissioning, and uptime‑focused service and spare parts support throughout the vehicle lifetime for customers across the EU and the US.
As a cross‑functional, fast‑moving team, we are part of the commercial side of the organisation and work closely with all relevant teams, enabling the customer and operator of the AD fleet, the service partner network responsible for servicing and maintaining the vehicles, and the software units, making sure that the vehicles are ready to run at all times.
We bring MOIA's pioneering AD vehicle to life – reliably, globally, and ready to scale.
As a Vehicle Transition & Readiness Manager, you are responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing vehicle transitions between development, testing, pilot, and operational phases, while ensuring that all vehicles meet technical, safety, regulatory, and operational readiness requirements.
What you will do
- Own end‑to‑end vehicle transition planning and execution across development, testing, pilot deployment, operations, and decommissioning/re‑testing.
- Define transition gates, readiness criteria, and stage‑specific checklists to ensure technical and operational preparedness.
- Set the vehicle testing strategy (functional, integration, operational acceptance, safety/compliance) and ensure fit‑for‑purpose coverage.
- Plan and coordinate test campaigns with internal teams and external partners, including objectives, timelines, and acceptance criteria.
- Drive cross‑functional alignment between engineering, validation, quality/safety/compliance, operations, service, and fleet management.
- Proactively manage dependencies, risks, and escalations to minimize operational impact and maintain delivery commitments.
- Coordinate required sign‑offs and lead controlled, traceable release decisions (including final go/no‑go where applicable).
- Standardise and continuously improve transition/testing processes, incorporating lessons learned and enabling scale across fleets/regions.
Qualifications & Experience
- Hands‑on experience in automotive launch, industrialisation, or transition management, with direct involvement in moving vehicles from pre‑series into steady‑state operations.
- Strong understanding of pre‑series vehicles and early fleet deployment activities, including service readiness, spare parts availability, and operational support requirements.
- Proven ability to capture, document, and institutionalise learnings from prototypes and early builds, translating them into scalable operational and service standards.
- Experience in defining and executing structured testing and validation approaches for operational and service processes prior to and following the start of production.
- Solid understanding of the end‑to‑end vehicle value chain, including the downstream impacts of engineering and launch decisions on service, uptime, and operating cost.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in environments with incomplete standards, evolving requirements, and high ambiguity, while driving clarity and alignment.
Benefits
- Competitive salary (including bonus)
- Hybrid work set‑up: Work from home or one of our offices – flexibility with collaboration
- Flexible working hours and possibility of flexible work arrangements for parenting, care work, volunteering, etc.
- Budget and monthly expense allowance for home office set‑up
- Possibility of remote work from outside Germany for up to 6 weeks per year from over 35 countries
- Public transport ticket (fully subsidised “Deutschlandticket”) for commuting and travelling throughout Germany and discount on MOIA rides
- Subsidised fitness club membership or bike leasing
- Learning environment with continuous learning days, job rotation, trainings and workshops, coaching, conferences, books, and language classes
- Mental health support, 1:1 sessions with external professionals and mental unload workshops
- 30 vacation days, sabbatical and unpaid leave option
- Relocation support with service provider (visa, administration, etc.)
- Dog‑friendly offices
For student and internship positions, we have an adjusted set of benefits.
Diversity & Inclusion
We are a member of the Charta der Vielfalt and are dedicated to actively fostering a workplace that celebrates and promotes diversity in various aspects such as age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or cognitive ability, and ethnicity. At MOIA, we embrace a culture where people are accepted, respected, valued, appreciated, and included. We regularly provide unconscious bias training to all our employees and continuously strive to enhance our hiring process by ensuring a diverse hiring panel.
