Manager of Driver Experience Systems & Intake

Inside the Role
Driver Experience creates the digital interactions that help drivers operate Daimler Truck vehicles more comfortably, safely, and efficiently. Our global portfolio includes Instrument Cluster and In-Vehicle Infotainment systems, unified HMI platforms, UI/UX concepts, and application software for current and future software-defined vehicles.
As the Manager of Driver Experience Systems & Intake, you will lead a global team responsible for Systems Engineering, global intake and prioritization, and the Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, Connectivity, and Diagnostics content for Driver Experience systems and HMI ECU platforms. You will establish the technical direction, requirements, governance, and delivery expectations needed to translate customer, business, regulatory, and UX/UI needs into safe, secure, connected, diagnosable, and executable product solutions.
You will lead Systems Engineering for Occupant Information and Occupant Control related to TT/S, strengthen the integration of UX/UI concepts and customer interactions into requirements development, and ensure clear system definitions, interfaces, traceability, and lifecycle deliverables. In parallel, you will lead the evaluation and prioritization of incoming global requests, aligning demand with platform strategies, development capacity, release plans, and business priorities.
You will also provide leadership and technical accountability for Driver Experience Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, Connectivity, and Diagnostics. This includes ensuring the applicable requirements, analyses, implementation expectations, compliance evidence, and technical deliverables are defined and executed throughout the product lifecycle.
As a member of the Driver Experience leadership team, you will develop the organization and provide transparency into priorities, technical risks, resource needs, funding gaps, and delivery commitments. Working across global and regional organizations, you will align product planning, engineering, software development, integration, and validation to deliver scalable Driver Experience solutions across Daimler Truck brands.
Posting Information
We provide a scheduled posting end date to assist our candidates with their application planning. While this date reflects our latest plans, it is subject to change, and postings may be extended or removed earlier than expected.
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What You Drive at DTNA
People and Organizational Leadership
Lead, coach, and develop a global team responsible for Driver Experience Systems Engineering, intake and requirements governance, Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, Connectivity, and Diagnostics.
Establish clear priorities, technical ownership, performance expectations, and development plans for the team.
Balance resources across product programs, technical deliverables, process ownership, strategic initiatives, and emerging business needs.
Build organizational capability through hiring, coaching, career development, competency development, succession planning, and knowledge transfer.
Foster an inclusive and accountable environment that promotes collaboration, technical rigor, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Communicate technical recommendations, organizational priorities, risks, and resource needs clearly to engineering teams and senior leadership.
Systems Engineering and Requirements Leadership
Lead Systems Engineering efforts for Occupant Information and Occupant Control systems related to TT/S.
Establish system definitions, boundaries, interfaces, requirements structures, traceability, verification strategies, and lifecycle deliverables.
Translate customer, business, regulatory, and UX/UI needs into clear and actionable system requirements.
Strengthen the integration of customer interactions, UI/UX concepts, and human-centered design into Systems Engineering and requirements-development practices.
Ensure Systems Engineering deliverables are aligned with CVDS milestones, product-development objectives, and platform and release plans.
Partner with product planning, software development, component engineering, integration, and validation teams to improve end-to-end technical alignment and execution.
Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, Connectivity, and Diagnostics
Lead the Driver Experience Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, Connectivity, and Diagnostics activities for HMI ECU platforms.
Establish technical direction, ownership, planning, and delivery expectations for these disciplines across the Driver Experience portfolio.
Ensure applicable requirements, analyses, concepts, implementation expectations, and technical evidence are completed throughout the product lifecycle.
Integrate Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, Connectivity, and Diagnostics considerations into system definitions, architectures, requirements, interfaces, and verification strategies.
Identify dependencies, gaps, and risks early and drive the necessary technical decisions, actions, and escalations.
Represent Driver Experience in related technical, project, and governance forums with regional and global partners.
Drive consistency, reuse, and continuous improvement across platforms, vehicle programs, regions, and business units.
Global Intake, Prioritization, and Governance
Lead the global Driver Experience intake process for product requests, customer enhancements, regulatory requirements, platform needs, and strategic initiatives.
Establish clear methods for evaluating requests based on customer and business value, strategic alignment, technical impact, urgency, risk, capacity, and funding.
Provide transparency into incoming demand, priorities, dependencies, decisions, and execution status.
Align requests with global platform strategies, product roadmaps, release plans, and available organizational capacity.
Facilitate prioritization and decision-making across regional business units, global platforms, product management, and engineering organizations.
Improve the intake and requirements-governance process to create clearer ownership, faster decisions, and more predictable execution.
Resource, Funding, and Portfolio Transparency
Provide visibility into current and future Driver Experience resource demand, engineering capacity, funding requirements, and investment gaps.
Connect product and project demand with workforce planning, budget planning, and technical capability needs.
Develop meaningful metrics and reporting for intake demand, requirements maturity, technical deliverables, resource constraints, timing, and execution risks.
Use portfolio information to support leader