Senior Liaison Manager @ Woven

Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by a legacy of innovating for the benefit of others, our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation — expanding what “mobility” means and how it serves society.

Our work centers on four pillars: AD/ADAS, our autonomous driving and advanced driver assist technologies; Arene, our software development platform for software-defined vehicles; Woven City, a test course for mobility; and Cloud & AI, the digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation. Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute, and together, we’re working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.

TEAM

Creating high-quality automated driving systems or advanced driver assistance systems is both challenging and urgent. It's crucial to meticulously design software architecture, development processes, environments, and testing methodologies to meet this goal.

Our team has two primary objectives: establishing and enhancing software development standards for autonomous compliance by engineers, and ensuring that development activities across teams are conducted properly, resulting in high-quality outputs. We believe that active engagement and effective communication, coupled with expertise in international standards, process models, software technologies, and development management, are essential to drive these initiatives forward.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Liaison Manager to establish a system for ensuring the safety and quality of our products. This role involves collaboration with various teams, including system design, architecture, development, testing, project management, and other stakeholders across our group companies. The ideal candidate will be adaptable, capable of developing solutions across teams, and will apply their experience in software quality management. Strong relationship-building skills with team members and stakeholders are crucial.

You will report to the Team Lead of Global Process Engineering, and this role is hybrid - you will work in the office 3+ days per week.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Program Quality Strategy & Planning: Collaborate with program management and engineering teams to define and integrate quality assurance strategies and process frameworks into program plans from initiation through execution and delivery.
Identify broad issues, extract key problems, and develop solution plans. Visualize data using graphical tools and implement data-driven process improvements.
Stakeholder Management & Communication: Act as a primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders on process and quality-related matters. Effectively communicate process requirements, audit findings, improvement initiatives, and quality metrics.
Process Coaching & Mentoring: Provide coaching, training, and guidance to program teams on defined processes, best practices, and the application of relevant standards.
Process Improvement support: Identify areas for process improvement through communication and agreement with stakeholders. Subsequently, Plan, conduct, and manage internal process assessments to ensure adherence to defined procedures and standards. Support teams with the timely closure of findings. Generate audit reports for management, presenting the findings, identified problems, and proposed corrective measures.
Guidance for Requirements & Design: Provide guidance and support to program teams on ensuring the quality and testability of system/software requirements, architecture, and design documents. Participate in reviews.
Continuous Improvement Leadership: Proactively identify opportunities for improving software quality, development efficiency, and process effectiveness across the ADAS portfolio. Lead and facilitate process improvement initiatives.
Cultivate relationships with customers and suppliers in the US and Japan to establish a collaborative system/software engineering process.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Experience in leading Issue resolution activity for mass production
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, problem-finding skills, with a keen attention to detail
Experience in project management for mass production
Experience developing engineering manuals/templates
Experience conducting requirement analysis, or Vehicle testing
Experience in developing and efficiently implementing a process-supporting tool across the entire toolchain
Experience of Japanese/US/Euro automotive OEM/supplier cultures
Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams
Fluency in English and Japanese

NICE TO HAVES

Knowledge of ISO standards related to safety and quality ( e.g. IATF 16949, ISO26262, ISO21434)
Basic knowledge of prompt engineering for Generative AI
Work experience related to software tool chain by using Python, Java or SQL
Work experience related to software quality metrics (e.g. Cyclomatic complexity)
Experience in code analysis tools like Understand, Lattix, and Polyspace
Experience in Requirement management tools like DOORS, Jama, Integrity, and Polarion
Experience leading project management like PMO.
Skills in team management of Agile/scrum development by using Jira/Confluence
Experience in software process improvement according to Automotive-SPICE

WHAT WE OFFER

We are committed to creating a modern work environment that supports our employees and their loved ones. We offer many options for the best programs to allow you to do your most meaningful work and to help you shape the future of mobility.

・Excellent health, wellness, dental, and vision coverage

・A rewarding 401k program

・Flexible vacation policy

・Family planning and care benefits

Our Commitment

・We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.

・Any information we receive from you will be used only in the hiring and onboarding process. Please see our privacy notice for more details.

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