Hardware Implementation Manager

Volkswagen AG

$160K — $190K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7-10+ years of experience in connectivity, telecom, automotive, or embedded systems
  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
  • Experience in project management for large-scale rollouts and multi-city programs
  • Strong understanding of telecom concepts like 5G, LTE, eSIM, IMS, and network metrics
  • Knowledge of vehicle connectivity and IoT systems, including telematics and ECU integration

Responsibilities

  • Plan and execute deployments of upload stations across various cities and hubs
  • Define rollout timelines, milestones, and sequences for deployment
  • Ensure readiness of hardware, connectivity, vehicle systems, and operations before rollout
  • Coordinate installation and commissioning of IT hardware for upload stations
  • Align upload station readiness with vehicle operational needs
  • Drive collaboration among local operations, vendors, and connectivity teams
  • Manage incidents and continuously improve processes through lessons learned

Benefits

  • Work flexibility with the potential for 30-40% business travel
  • Collaboration with a range of technical and operational teams
  • Opportunity to lead large-scale and impactful deployment projects
  • Hands-on involvement in innovative technology integration
  • Professional growth through engagement with leading industry players
Full Job Description


Brief Role Description

A rollout management role responsible for planning and executing the deployment of upload stations and connectivity across multiple cities and hubs. The role coordinates local operations, IT hardware partners, MNOs, connectivity teams, and engineering stakeholders to ensure site readiness, installation, commissioning, and smooth vehicle ramp-up.

The position focuses on end-to-end rollout execution, managing dependencies between the end customer, product teams and local suppliers, ensuring reliable operations from test deployments through production rollout.

This role combines hands-on rollout coordination, technical alignment, and stakeholder management to deliver consistent and scalable deployments across locations.

Role Responsibilities

Program Planning & Multi-City Deployment Execution - 30%
  • Plan and execute upload station and fleet rollouts across multiple cities and hubs
  • Define rollout timelines, milestones, dependencies, and deployment sequences
  • Ensure readiness across upload station hardware, connectivity interfaces, vehicle systems, and operations

Upload Station Rollout & Operational Readiness - 20%
  • Coordinate installation, commissioning, and handover of upload station IT hardware
  • Ensure site readiness including power, space, network access, and physical security
  • Align upload station availability with vehicle ramp-up and operational usage

Connectivity & MNO Coordination - 20%
  • Coordinate connectivity readiness with MNOs and internal connectivity teams for each rollout site
  • Ensure SIM/eSIM provisioning, network availability, and basic performance readiness are in place for rollout
  • Support SLA/KPI monitoring during rollout and early operations (availability, throughput, incident handling)

Cross-Functional Coordination & Delivery Management - 20%
  • Drive alignment between local operations, vehicle teams, backend/platform teams, upload station vendors, and connectivity stakeholders
  • Coordinate suppliers and third-party partners during rollout execution
  • Provide regular rollout status updates, risk tracking, and escalations

Incident Management, Risk & Continuous Improvement - 10%
  • Coordinate issue resolution across upload station hardware, connectivity, and operations during rollout phases
  • Support root-cause analysis for rollout and early-life incidents

Incorporate lessons learned into rollout playbooks, standards, and processes

Qualification requirements

Years of Relevant Experience:
  • 7-10+ years in connectivity, telecom, automotive, or embedded systems

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Education:

Required

Desired
  • B.S. in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent work experience
  • Masters in Information Technology, Computer Science (or related education)


General Skills:
  • Excellent communication across technical and non-technical teams
  • Strong system-level thinking (multi-domain integration)
  • Strategic thinking with execution focus
  • Ability to manage ambiguity and drive alignment
  • Ability to work in cross-functional agile teams
  • Stakeholder and supplier coordination skills
  • Analytical debugging and problem-solving mindset


Work Flexibility and travel:
  • 30 - 40% business travel


Additional Qualifications

Required

Desired

Program & Delivery Management
  • Strong experience in program/project management for large-scale rollouts
  • Expertise in release planning, validation and testing
  • Ability to manage multi-city/global programs
  • Proven expertise in contract negotiation, vendor management, and SLA governance
  • Experience managing telecom operators (MNOs) and supplier ecosystems including IT-Hardware
  • Proven experience in technical rollout, deployment, or operations management, ideally across multiple locations (e.g. cities, hubs, or sites), coordinating installation, go-live, and stabilization phases

Connectivity & Telecom
  • Understanding of 5G, LTE, Wi-Fi, eSIM, IMS, roaming, and network performance metrics
  • Experience working with MNOs and telecom ecosystems

Automotive & IT Systems
  • Knowledge of vehicle connectivity, telematics, and ECU integration
  • Understanding of end-to-end IoT/connected systems (device ↔ cloud)
  • Hands-on understanding of physical + IT system deployments, including site readiness, hardware installation, connectivity validation, and basic troubleshooting during rollout

Testing & Validation
  • Experience in defining test strategies, field validation, and production readiness
  • Familiarity with drive testing, stability testing, and KPI validation
  • Strong ability to coordinate cross-functional stakeholders (local operations, infrastructure, networking, vendors, and central engineering teams) to ensure on-time and consistent rollouts.

Tools & Processes
  • Defect tracking: JIRA, HP ALM
  • Program tracking: dashboards, reporting tools
  • Familiarity with CI/CD, OTA system

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