Senior Automotive Program Lead – Systems & Delivery

Bose Corporation; Troy (MI); On-site; USD 128,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus programs

Health and welfare benefits

401(k) plan

Employee discount

Job summary

Bose Corporation is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager for its Automotive Engineering team in Michigan (Bloomfield Hills or Troy). You will lead cross-functional engineering programs spanning software, hardware, and systems, ensuring delivery against milestones and budgets.

You will drive governance, risk management, and executive reporting, partnering with engineering, purchasing, and finance to optimize performance and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or another related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of professional experience leading complex engineering or technical programs.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional engineering programs with multiple teams, stakeholders, and dependencies.
• Strong understanding of project/program management including scope, schedule, budget, resources, risk, change management, and governance.
• Strong technical expertise and experience working with tools such as MS Project, Jira, Confluence, Power BI or equivalent project tool sets.
• Experience partnering directly with engineering teams in a product development environment.
• Demonstrated ability to identify project risks and drive cross-functional resolution.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive results within a dynamic global organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex automotive engineering programs from ideation and concept exploration through development, driving execution in alignment with defined product development lifecycle phases, technical milestones, and gate requirements.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans encompassing scope, schedule, technical deliverables, resources, budget, risks, dependencies, and milestones.
• Partner closely with Engineering teams to understand technical architecture, requirements, dependencies, validation strategies, and implementation risks.
• Drive execution across software, hardware, systems, validation, product, purchasing, finance, and other cross-functional organizations.
• Establish clear ownership and accountability for project deliverables.
• Drive timely resolution of technical and program-level issues affecting project commitments.
• Establish effective project governance, operating cadence, decision-making processes, and escalation mechanisms.
• Define and monitor meaningful project KPIs and provide objective visibility into project health.
• Lead program reviews, milestone reviews, risk reviews, and executive-level discussions.
• Identify execution gaps and bottlenecks and establish actionable recovery plans.
• Drive consistent project management standards and best practices across programs.
• Champion continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to simplify processes, improve transparency, and increase engineering execution efficiency.

Skills

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Confluence

Power BI

Job description

Bose Corporation is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager for its Automotive Engineering team in Michigan (Bloomfield Hills or Troy). You will lead cross-functional engineering programs spanning software, hardware, and systems, ensuring delivery against milestones and budgets.

You will drive governance, risk management, and executive reporting, partnering with engineering, purchasing, and finance to optimize performance and outcomes.