Vehicle Program Manager (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Munich, Germany; London, United Kingdom; Tallinn, Estonia; or Göteborg, Sweden. Hybrid role with at least 12 monthly in-office days and regular travel to OEM and supplier locations across Europe and beyond.

Company

Bolt is a global mobility technology company building ride-hailing, delivery, micromobility, car-sharing, and autonomous ride-hailing services.

What you will do

• Own OEM vehicle programs end to end, including program structure, milestones, technical gates, deliverables, and timing.
• Lead day-to-day engineering and production relationships with OEM partners through technical reviews, requirement dialogues, industrialisation, and manufacturing readiness.
• Evaluate vehicle platforms, OEM capabilities, and suppliers, including platform maturity, L4 readiness, E/E architecture, lifecycle, and carry-over.
• Translate sensor, autonomous driving system, and operational needs into vehicle-level requirements while managing OEM constraints.
• Run program governance through steering meetings, decision logs, risk management, escalation paths, and regulatory tracking.
• Feed platform, cost, and feasibility insights into vehicle product and platform strategy.

Requirements

• Solid experience running vehicle programs in automotive, autonomous driving, or an adjacent hardware industry with personal ownership of outcomes.
• Direct experience working with or inside OEMs and understanding vehicle development, sourcing, engineering change, validation, industrialisation, and series production.
• Technical credibility across complete vehicles, including E/E architecture, vehicle systems, integration constraints, and redundancy.
• Structured program management skills, disciplined documentation, risk management, decision-making, and escalation.
• Ability to work as a senior individual contributor in a small, fast team and travel regularly to partner and supplier locations.

Nice to have

• Experience with vehicle homologation or type approval.
• Experience with L4 or L2+ autonomous vehicle programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Small autonomous teams with significant ownership and responsibility.
• Hybrid work balancing flexibility with in-person collaboration.
• Salary, stock options, and physical and mental wellness benefits.
• One-month paid sabbatical after five years at Bolt.
• Annual company events and smaller team gatherings.
• Daily use of AI tools is expected, with responsibility for the quality of the output.

Hiring process

• Complete the online application form; required fields are marked with an asterisk.