Head of Autonomous Product & Technology

Scania Group; Södertälje kommun; On-site; SEK 1,000,000 - 1,350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health center Gröndal access

Wellness allowance

Performance bonus

Flexible working hours

Company car leasing

Employee events for families

Job summary

Scania Group is seeking a Head of Product & Technology to define the autonomous transport solution and own the product requirements, acceptance criteria, and deployment roadmap. You will bridge customer reality and partner stacks, balancing performance, safety, and scalability in a rapidly evolving market.

This externally focused role requires a 10+ year track record in product management or systems engineering, hands-on experience with partner integrations, and a deep understanding of ISO 26262

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management, systems engineering, autonomous systems, or technical leadership in complex environments.
• Proven experience translating customer, market, and stakeholder needs into clear, traceable solution requirements.
• Strong understanding of autonomous systems, connected services, or industrial digital solutions.
• Experience selecting and managing third-party technology partners and integrating their stacks.
• Ability to define a value proposition tied to solution functionality and feature maturity.
• Strong experience with verification and validation governance.
• Experience from live operational deployment environments.
• Understanding of functional safety principles (ISO 26262, SOTIF) and cybersecurity requirements.
• Master's degree in Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of customer operations, use cases, and customer TCO and TOE to define where the autonomous solution creates value.
• Own the autonomous product definition and the solution requirements baseline, covering functional, performance, safety, and scalability requirements, written as the specification partners must meet rather than an internal build list.
• Own the technical partner integration strategy and decide which partners can technically deliver the solution and how their stacks integrate.
• Own the acceptance and maturity bar, including the definition of demo-ready versus production-ready.
• Own the customer-facing solution roadmap.
• Define deployment-ready reference architectures and lead technical readiness reviews for customer deployments.
• Own end-to-end traceability from requirements to validation evidence, and hand that evidence to Safety for the safety case.
• Secure scalability across multiple autonomy partners and operational design domains (ODDs).
• Line-manage the Safety Manager while preserving safety independence, so that a safety no-go can be raised to the Managing Director without passing through this role.
• Maintain the technical interface to TRATON Group Product Management and Group R&D.

Skills

Product management

Systems engineering

Autonomous systems

Technical leadership

Verification & validation governance

Live deployment experience

Education

Master's degree in Engineering

Job description

Scania Group is seeking a Head of Product & Technology to define the autonomous transport solution and own the product requirements, acceptance criteria, and deployment roadmap. You will bridge customer reality and partner stacks, balancing performance, safety, and scalability in a rapidly evolving market.

This externally focused role requires a 10+ year track record in product management or systems engineering, hands-on experience with partner integrations, and a deep understanding of ISO 26262