Function Specialist
Function Specialist
Volkswagen of America, Inc
Chattanooga, TN
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Role Summary
This role is responsible for a connected infotainment service/function in North America. The responsibilities consist of driving and supporting the concept, development, and maintenance of a connected infotainment product (for example, remote services, multimedia, etc). The function specialist coordinates the product development process, failure analysis and correction, and series production support, while supporting the product lifecycle planning, including product and usability concepts and competitive evaluation.
Role Responsibilities
Connected Service Development and Integration (90%)
Years of Experience:
Hybrid
Primary Location
United States-Tennessee-Chattanooga
This role is responsible for a connected infotainment service/function in North America. The responsibilities consist of driving and supporting the concept, development, and maintenance of a connected infotainment product (for example, remote services, multimedia, etc). The function specialist coordinates the product development process, failure analysis and correction, and series production support, while supporting the product lifecycle planning, including product and usability concepts and competitive evaluation.
Role Responsibilities
Connected Service Development and Integration (90%)
- Technical coordinator for the responsible connected function
- Ensuring compliance with legal, security, and safety requirements for the responsible function in the North American market
- Responsible to align North American concept definition and technical feasibility for the responsible function
- Responsible to manage the product development process for the responsible function and its application into North American vehicles, including prototyping, integration, failure analysis and correction
- Ensuring compliance of the responsible function with relevant project milestones, such as B-sample, C-sample, and final production release.
- Responsible to manage product priorities and mitigate risks and roadblocks throughout the development process
- Participation in and setup of all necessary meetings and committees to fulfill the requirements above
- Regular status report preparation
- Evaluates product concerns from field products with detailed analysis and resolution recommendation with the supplier and other component owners throughout the world to ensure no side effects to other markets occur
- Works closely with Quality to review field concerns and identify root cause; defines countermeasures with the supplier and component owners when product changes are necessary
Years of Experience:
- 5+ years of related engineering and project management experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent - required
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent - desired
- Analytical and conceptual thinking – using logic and reason, creative and strategic
- Communication skills – interpersonal, presentation and written
- Computer savvy – skilled in the use of software
- Integration – joining people, processes or systems
- Influencing and negotiation skills
- Resource management
- German skills written and verbal are advantageous
- Customer oriented
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously
- Experience with automotive control module root cause analysis
- Knowledge of vehicle communication networks
- Experience with automotive infotainment control module SW Development and Feature Design
- Experience in automotive product management
- Ability and drive to remain up to date on latest industry trends
- Strong presentation and summation skills
- Experience in connected services and connected application development
- Experience with cloud development and authentication
- Experience with Volkswagen infotainment control modules
- German language skills
- Travel to the suppliers and VW facilities
Hybrid
Primary Location
United States-Tennessee-Chattanooga
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Seniority level
Not Applicable -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Other -
Industries
Motor Vehicle Manufacturing and Manufacturing
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