Technology Strategy Manager: Roadmaps & Innovation

Hyundai Motor Group; Michigan; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Zero-dollar premiums

Employer-paid disability

Generous PTO

Global environment

Retirement planning

HSA & FSAs

Flexible work hours

Job summary

Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc. (HATCI) is seeking a Technology Strategy Manager to connect advanced technology development with future Hyundai and Kia vehicle planning efforts.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams across engineering, product planning, and program management to mature technologies for upcoming vehicles. The role requires building roadmaps, evaluating technology signals, and delivering executive-ready recommendations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an automotive-related field.
• 7+ years of automotive, mobility, technology strategy, product planning, advanced development, or closely related experience
• Ability to attend video conferences with colleagues from other time zones as needed (typically 1-2x per month from 7:00 to 8:00 PM (US Eastern Time))
• Ability to lead cross-functional work independently in a fast-paced environment, including influencing contributors who are not under direct authority
• Experience managing, mentoring, training, or developing team members in a technical, strategic, and/or cross-functional work environment
• Experience setting team goals, managing project calendars, tracking deliverables, and controlling budgets or project spending
• Ability to explain technical topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Adept in Microsoft programs, such as Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word
• Excellent time management, self-management, project management, and organization skills
• Strong written, oral, interpersonal, and leadership skills
• Korean language reading ability

Responsibilities

• Lead team activities connecting engineering, product planning, and program management teams, affiliates, headquarters, and enabling functions to identify, prioritize, coordinate, and mature advanced technologies for future Hyundai/Kia vehicles
• Manage the advanced development portfolio, including project proposal intake, prioritization, kickoffs, roadmap alignment, status tracking, review gates, decision checkpoints, and executive-level report-outs
• Own and maintain technology roadmaps, candidate technology pools, technology landscape materials, and evaluation frameworks that assess strategic fit, customer value, feasibility, timing, readiness level, risk, investment needs, and portfolio balance
• Lead technology sensing and scouting in North America by monitoring emerging technologies, tracking trends, gathering conference and exhibition intelligence, and maintaining relationships with universities, startups, suppliers, research organizations, and ecosystem partners
• Translate technology discoveries and engineering input into actionable planning implications, recommendations, and opportunities aligned with product, market, regulatory, affiliate, and headquarters needs
• Drive stakeholder and executive alignment by summarizing technical and business tradeoffs, identifying risks and dependencies, clarifying stakeholder positions, escalating unresolved issues, and recommending next steps
• Serve as a liaison between engineering, legal, finance, purchasing, and administrative teams and other support functions to resolve budget, contract, intellectual property, resource, and execution requirements for advanced technology projects and external collaborations
• Manage, mentor, and train team members by setting clear goals, priorities, performance expectations, calendars, resource plans, and development opportunities
• Control and track budgets for team-related activities, including project planning, external collaborations, events, travel, and department-supported initiatives
• Create and improve repeatable processes, templates, trackers, reporting standards, knowledge-management systems, and information-sharing channels that improve visibility, accountability, continuity, and reuse of insights
• Support research, innovation, patent, and idea-management processes that encourage technology growth and improve visibility of company innovation activities
• Plan and support technology showcases, exhibits, workshops, and information-sharing events that communicate the capabilities of the company and future technology opportunities to internal and global stakeholders
• Travel up to 20% of the time, both domestically and internationally

Skills

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional collab

Tech strategy

Roadmapping

Stakeholder mgmt

Budget mgmt

Executive communication

IP familiarity

Korean language

Education

Bachelor's degree in automotive field

Master's degree in automotive field

Tools

Tableau

PowerBI

MS Copilot

Notion

Confluence

Smartsheets

Job description

Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc. (HATCI) is seeking a Technology Strategy Manager to connect advanced technology development with future Hyundai and Kia vehicle planning efforts.

You will coordinate cross-functional teams across engineering, product planning, and program management to mature technologies for upcoming vehicles. The role requires building roadmaps, evaluating technology signals, and delivering executive-ready recommendations.