Senior Specialist, Hardware & Software Variant Management (Automotive)

Location: Novi, Michigan, United States; 4–5 days per week in the office with regular in-person meetings, events, and occasional business travel.

Base salary: $110,000–$135,000 annually, plus eligibility for an annual performance bonus.

Company

hirify.global is developing electrified and digitally enabled pickup trucks and rugged SUVs, including all-electric and Harvester range-extender powertrains.

What you will do

• Lead product management for assigned complete-vehicle integration and pre-series readiness activities.
• Provide cross-functional leadership for the Complete Vehicle Main System Team across Product, Engineering, Production, and other functions.
• Own vehicle-level product positions and recommend trade-offs across customer value, attributes, architecture, content, cost, timing, quality, and risk.
• Drive integrated plans, KPIs, governance, delivery, issue resolution, resource planning, and escalation of material risks.
• Lead pre-series and launch-cost planning, including build strategy, timing, budget, vehicle availability, and readiness.
• Prepare decision-ready proposals and status updates for senior management and governance committees while aligning partners and suppliers.

Requirements

• 8–12 years of automotive experience in complete-vehicle product management, vehicle integration, pre-series, or vehicle program management.
• Proven leadership of complex vehicle programs covering priorities, governance, integrated plans, risk management, and executive reporting.
• Strong complete-vehicle integration expertise across customer requirements, attributes, features, architecture, validation, manufacturing feasibility, and commercial targets.
• Hands-on pre-series and launch experience involving build planning, vehicle availability, parts maturity, readiness, issue resolution, and cost control.
• Business ownership across content, scope, cost, timing, and quality, with budget, milestone, and KPI management.
• Strong judgment, problem-solving, cross-functional leadership, and influence across Product, Engineering, Production, Quality, Purchasing, Logistics, Finance, partners, and suppliers.
• Ability to clarify accountability, close ownership gaps, maintain delivery focus without formal reporting authority, and communicate trade-offs and recommendations to senior forums.
• Broad understanding of vehicle architecture, attributes, E/E, software-enabled features, validation, and production processes.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or a related field, plus experience with vehicle program, requirements, issue, and lifecycle-management tools such as JIRA and Confluence.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree.
• Leadership of a complete-vehicle, vehicle integration, or pre-series program through validation, build events, launch, and early-series stabilization.
• Electric or software-defined vehicle experience, including complete-vehicle cross-system integration.
• Ownership of vehicle-level budgets, pre-series or launch costs, build quantities, vehicle availability, or resource plans.
• Experience delivering in global, matrixed automotive organizations with external partners and suppliers.
• Success leading complex programs or cross-functional teams through influence, subject-matter expertise, and structured governance.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial, inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced environment focused on building products and a company from the ground up.
• Medical, dental, vision, and income protection plans.
• 401(k) program with employer match and immediate vesting.
• 20 days of planned PTO, 40 hours of unplanned PTO, and 14 company or floating holidays annually.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, plus paid leave for bereavement, jury duty, voting time, and military leave.