Logo for Valeo

Product Technical Leader

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Experience leading R&D teams and managing software/hardware development projects.
  • Strong program management skills: detailed scheduling, budgeting, and resource planning.
  • Ability to interface with customers and translate customer requests into internal requirements.
  • Familiarity with design reviews, standardization rules, and CPM (CLEAN Project Management) processes.

Responsibilities

  • Accountable for deliverables by applying the PDP of the PG/PL following CPM and ensuring robust design within economical targets.
  • Lead and coordinate all necessary design reviews and ensure timely reviews across networks (Purchase, Industrial).
  • Interface with the customer on RD subjects, break down and cascade customer requests and needs internally.
  • Manage detailed scheduling and budgeting for the RD scope, identify resource and equipment needs, establish activity breakdowns to meet milestones, and monitor spend within budget; daily management of RD contributors and assignment of work packages.

About the company

Valeo logo

Valeo

Automotive Parts & Components

As a technology company and partner to all automakers and new mobility players, Valeo innovates to make mobility cleaner, safer and smarter. Valeo is a technological and industrial leader in electrification, driving assistance systems, reinvention of the interior experience and lighting everywhere. These four areas, vital to the transformation of mobility, are the Group's growth drivers. Valeo in figures: 20 billion euros in sales in 2022; 109,900 employees at December 31, 2022; 29 countries, 183 plants, 21 research centers, 44 development centers, 18 distribution platforms. Valeo is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange. -- Valeo, entreprise technologique, partenaire de tous les constructeurs automobiles et des nouveaux acteurs de la mobilité, œuvre pour une mobilité plus propre, plus sûre et plus intelligente, grâce à ses innovations. Valeo dispose d’un leadership technologique et industriel dans l’électrification, les aides à la conduite, la réinvention de la vie à bord et l'éclairage à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur du véhicule. Ces quatre domaines, essentiels à la transformation de la mobilité, sont les vecteurs de croissance du Groupe. Valeo en chiffres : 20 milliards d’euros de CA en 2022 ; 109 900 collaborateurs au 31 décembre 2022 ; 29 pays, 183 sites de production, 21 centres de recherche, 44 centres de développement, 18 plateformes de distribution. Valeo est coté à la Bourse de Paris.

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryAutomotive Parts & Components
Company size10001

Your match analysis

See how your profile stacks up against this role.

We compared the job requirements to your profile to show where you're strong and where you fall short.

Job description

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Accountable for the deliverables:

  • Apply the specific PDP of his/her PG/PL following CPM (CLEAN Project Management)

  • In charge of the robust design in line with the economical targets

  • Applies Standardization rules, exceptionally will request de standardizations based on sound justifications

  • Call for all necessary design reviews

  • Make sure that Design Reviews of other networks are happening in a timely manner (Purchase, Industrial)

  • Represent the R&D function at the customer

  • Interface with the customer for the R&D subjects of the project, break down and cascade internally customer requests and needs

  • Report  and escalate to his project manager or R&D manager as needed

Responsible for the detailed scheduling and budgeting

  • Contribute to the identification of the needs in terms of resources, equipments, investments

  • Establish detail break down of the activities to meet the milestones

  • Follow activities and spending of his scope to meet his allowed budget

 

Management of the contributors

  • Daily management of all R&D contributors, dedicated or not

  • Assign to them the work packages needed

  • Regular review with his/her R&D manager or Product Manager and the Discipline Department Managers to check alignment between needs and availabilities

Job:

Product Technical Leader

Organization:

Software Development

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2026-04-03

Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com

Apply once. Then go straight to the hiring manager.

After you apply, unlock the direct contact details of the people who actually make the call. A quick follow-up makes you 5x more likely to land an interview.

MR

Marcus Rivera

Chief Revenue Officer

m.rivera@company.com
linkedin.com/in/marcusrivera
Unlocked after you apply
·

Technical Product Manager Related jobs

Other jobs at Valeo

Premium

Reach out to the hiring manager directly.

Gain access to the contact details of the hiring managers who actually decide, and reach out to network with them directly. That, plus more when you upgrade:

  • Full match report with fit score and gaps
  • Career diagnostics on how recruiters read you
  • Curated company matches and warm intros
  • 48h early access to new roles

Cancel anytime.