CW ADS Program Manager

TekWissen LLC

Ann Arbor, MI
5 days ago

Highlights

Position: CW ADS Program Manager Location: Ann Arbor, MI, 48105 Duration: 12 Months Job Type: Temporary Assignment Work Type: Onsite Shift: M-F 9.00 AM 6:00 PM Job Description As a Program Manager, you will lead the planning, coordination, and execution of complex Automated Driving Systems (ADS) programs from concept through production. Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide.

Numbers & Facts

Location	Ann Arbor, MI
Industry	Computer/IT Services
Salary	$56
Company Size	100 to 499 employees
Year Founded	2009
Website	http://www.tekwissen.com/

Description

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide.

Position: CW ADS Program Manager

Location: Ann Arbor, MI, 48105

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Shift: M-F 9.00 AM 6:00 PM

Job Description

As a Program Manager, you will lead the planning, coordination, and execution of complex Automated Driving Systems (ADS) programs from concept through production. You'll serve as the bridge between engineering and product, ensuring technical excellence, schedule adherence, and alignment to strategic objectives.
Your role combines program leadership, cross-functional orchestration, and technical understanding to deliver advanced mobility features that meet client's high standards for safety, quality, and performance.

Program Leadership & Execution

Drive end-to-end program planning - defining scope, objectives, deliverables, and key milestones for ADS and ADAS features.
Develop and maintain detailed program schedules, dashboards, and risk registers to ensure transparency and accountability.
Manage dependencies across multiple engineering disciplines (software, system, validation, hardware).
Proactively identify risks, assess impacts, and drive mitigation or escalation actions to maintain timing and quality goals.
Lead cross-functional reviews to assess readiness for key program milestones (design reviews, software integration points, validation gates).

Stakeholder Alignment & Communication

Serve as the primary liaison between engineering, product planning, global counterparts (including Japan), and executive management.
Translate complex technical topics into clear program updates, enabling data-driven decisions at all levels of the organization.
Facilitate collaboration and conflict resolution across diverse teams and time zones to ensure alignment on priorities and deliverables.
Support senior leadership with program summaries, KPI tracking, and executive presentations. Requirements & Change Management
Partner with System and Software Engineering teams to ensure requirements, specifications, and validation plans align with program intent.
Manage change control processes to balance feature requests, timing constraints, and cost targets.
Oversee documentation quality and configuration management in compliance with ASPICE, ISO 26262, and internal governance processes.

Performance Tracking & Continuous Improvement

Define and monitor KPIs (schedule adherence, defect trends, validation coverage, software maturity).
Leverage data analytics to drive continuous improvement in development efficiency, issue closure rate, and cross-functional communication.
Identify opportunities to streamline processes, automate reporting, and enhance team coordination tools.

Leadership & Culture

Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and proactive problem solving across all partner teams.
Mentor junior program leads and engineers on project management discipline and cross-functional communication.
Champion client's values of respect for people and continuous improvement (Kaizen) in every phase of development.

Requirements:

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
8+ years of experience in program or project management within automotive systems, preferably ADS/ADAS.
Proven record of delivering complex system or software programs in compliance with ASPICE and ISO 26262.
Strong organizational and communication skills, with ability to manage multiple global stakeholders.
Proficiency with project management and engineering tools (e.g., MS Project, JIRA, ADO, Confluence, DOORS).
PMP or equivalent certification preferred.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About Company

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.