Senior Project Manager
- Gothenburg
- Hybrid
Smart Eye is leading the global market for Driver Monitoring Systems, which has become a standard component in every car. Monitoring the driver behavior is safety critical both for normal driving as well as for autonomous driving. We are constantly growing and are now looking for a Senior Project Managers who want to join our team.
Smart Eye provides a high-tech work environment in an exciting and expanding business. Depending on your skills and interest, your role can be more technical or more business oriented.
You will be given very good opportunities for personal development, challenges and great fun. You will also be working with highly talented people and be a part of our open, inclusive and creative culture. We believe in true teamwork, where everyone is important.
You can find our modern office at Järntorget, in the city-center of Gothenburg, with great access by bus, bike, tram, boat and car. On top of that, our espresso machine makes the best coffee in Gothenburg!
Your Role
We are seeking an experienced and customer-focused Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of advanced Interior Sensing software programs for global automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers. This role serves as the primary interface between customers and internal cross-functional teams, ensuring customer commitments are met while maintaining alignment with company priorities, technical capabilities, and business objectives. You bring structure and clarity to complex automotive software programs while helping teams navigate uncertainty and change.
We have a number of development teams working on our products and algorithms such as head- and eye-tracking, attentiveness and drowsiness, face identification and other interior sensing algorithms. We solve these challenging problems utilizing state-of-the-art algorithms in the fields of image processing, machine learning / AI, mathematics and accelerated computing.
The teams develop new features and applications, embed and optimize the software for specific target platforms and environments, test and verify the software for specific vehicle programs as well as work with our customers to create the best possible user experience. All our customer programs are based on the same core product so they all share the same core software.
You will be leading one or more of our developer teams, communicating with the customers and other internal stakeholders as well as setting the priorities for the team.
The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced technical automotive environment, excels at managing ambiguity and customer-driven change, and can effectively navigate complex technical and organizational challenges. This individual must be highly organized, an excellent communicator, and a proactive problem solver with a strong understanding of automotive software development and a background in technology.
Previous experience managing global automotive customers is essential. The successful candidate will have demonstrated success working directly with international OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers, coordinating activities across multiple regions, and leading programs involving globally distributed teams.
You will have an active impact of the processes and projects and will work in close cooperation with our other talented team members. Your contribution to how we can meet our customers needs with tomorrow's technology will be of crucial importance.
Reporting to: Chief Technology Officer
Location: Smart Eye AB, Headquarters (Gothenburg)
Skills & Requirements
Key Responsibilities:
Customer Program Leadership
- Act as the primary program management contact for assigned OEM and Tier-1 customers, leading meetings, reviews, milestones, and issue resolution.
- Build trusted customer relationships and manage expectations while balancing internal resources and business priorities.
- Ensure clear alignment between customer requirements, commitments, and internal execution.
Program Planning & Execution
- Develop and manage program plans, schedules, deliverables, risks, budgets, and customer commitments.
- Coordinate cross-functional execution across Engineering, Product Owners, Validation, Data Management, and Customer Support.
- Proactively identify execution risks and resource conflicts, driving mitigation and timely delivery of releases, demos, and evaluations.
Risk & Issue Management
- Proactively identify, communicate, and manage program risks, dependencies, and roadblocks.
- Lead customer escalations and drive timely, solution-oriented resolution of issues.
- Facilitate decision-making and ensure closure of critical actions.
Requirements & Change Management
- Coordinate customer requirements, feature requests, and change requests together with Product and Sales.
- Assess impact on scope, schedule, and resources, ensuring commitments and changes are documented and communicated.
- Support configuration management and release planning.
Communication & Reporting
- Provide clear and concise program status updates to customers and internal leadership.
- Translate complex technical topics into business-oriented communication.
- Maintain executive-level reporting and program documentation covering status, risks, opportunities, and key decisions.
Your qualifications:
- At least Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Technical Management, or a related field.
- 5+ years of automotive project/program management, including customer-facing software development programs.
- Proven experience working with OEM and Tier-1 customers and managing multiple complex projects.
- Strong understanding of automotive development processes and product lifecycle management.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to perform effectively in fast-paced customer environments and proficiency with project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project, or similar.
Good-to-have-skills:
- Experience with DMS, OMS, ADAS, computer vision, AI/ML, mathematics or related automotive safety technologies.
- Technical background in software, systems engineering, embedded systems, or automotive electronics.
- Familiarity with automotive standards and processes such as ASPICE, ISO 26262, software release management, change management, and requirements traceability.
- PMP or equivalent project management certification.
Your Profile
We welcome all types of personalities and believe in a true mix of people to create a dynamic work environment.
- Ability to work independently in an environment that changes rapidly.
- A positive, enthusiastic, open, entrepreneurial attitude and a willingness to work closely with customers as well as other functions within Smart Eye to achieve growth.
- Strong analytical and creative skills. Independent, Self-driven, Thorough, Curious and with a strong interest in new technologies.
- Communication skills with fluency in both Swedish and English. Other languages are a merit.
Since we are working on a global market there will be opportunities to travel and meet with customers.
Interviews are held on a continuous basis, so we highly recommend that you submit your application at your earliest convenience. Welcome with your application.
Great Place to Work
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Ethical
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Groundbreaking
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Brilliant colleagues from around the world
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Open, collaborative, warm and fun company culture
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Flexible work schedule
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Individual wellbeing & our families are a priority
About the company
Smart Eye is the global leader in Human Insight AI, technology that understands, supports and predicts human behavior in complex environments. Together with our subsidiaries Affectiva and iMotions, we are bridging the gap between humans and machines for a safe and sustainable future.
Today, our technology is embedded in next-generation vehicles, leading the way towards human-centric mobility through Driver Monitoring Systems and Interior Sensing solutions. Our Research Instruments offer unparalleled insights into automotive, aviation, assistive technology, behavioral science and many more fields.
Our subsidiary Affectiva is humanizing technology by pioneering Emotion AI, helping companies gain a deeper understanding of how consumers engage with their content, products and services, in automotive, media & entertainment, market research and beyond.
Our subsidiary iMotions provides the world’s leading biosensor software platform, that synchronizes data streams in real time from multiple sensors.
Smart Eye was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Sweden with offices in the US, UK, Germany, Denmark, Egypt, Japan and China. A publicly traded company since 2016, our customers include NASA, Nissan, Boeing, Honeywell, Volvo, GM, BMW, Geely, Harvard University, over 1,300 research organizations around the world, 70% of the world’s largest advertisers and 28% of the Fortune Global 500 companies.
Visit www.smarteye.ai for more information.
2025Smart Eye Announces 3 New Interior Sensing AI Design Wins with Major Korean Car Manufacturer
2025Smart Eye Secures 200 MSEK Design Win Deal – Delivering to Major New Japanese OEM Customer as a Software Tier 1
2024Smart Eye Announces 700 MSEK deal with Volvo Cars, Audi, Porsche, GM and One More European OEM. Smart Eye Announces Breakthrough Order for its Fleet Driver Monitoring System AIS
2024Smart Eye Announces New Driver Monitoring System Design Win with Leading North American Car Manufacturer
2023Signs Breakthrough Deal for AIS Driver Monitoring System for Fleets with Linde
2022Smart Eye receives new Driver Monitoring System (DMS) design win from onw of Europe largest OEMs.
2021Smart Eye acquires Emotion AI pioneer Affectiva, merging two complementary teams and technologies into a transatlantic AI powerhouse. Smart Eye Acquires iMotions, developer of the world’s leading software platform for studying human behavior, to unlock potential for multi-modal, human behavioral research.
2020Smart Eye receives its biggest order yet of 24 new design wins. In total, the company now has received 81 design wins with 12 automakers.
2020Smart Eye exhibits for the first time at CES in Las Vegas with great success. Interior Sensing is introduced among other technologies
201927 design wins received during 2019, 14 of which with a global Korean OEM and 13 of which with leading Japanese and European OEMs, respectively. It is announced that the BMW 3-series, BMW Z4, BMW X3, BMW X4, BMW X5 and BMW 8-series includes Smart Eye’s technology.
2019EU approves a regulation that all motor vehicles shall be equipped with driver drowsiness, attention and distraction warning systems between 2022-2026.
201818th design win from one of China’s largest car manufacturers with SOP 2019. The order value is estimated to exceed 100 MSEK and 23 design wins in total.
2018Opening of offices in Tokyo, Japan and Chongqing, China.
2017US office opened in Detroit.
2017Design win with a European premium car manufacturer with SOP 2019.
2016Smart Eye gets publicly traded at the Nasdaq First North stock exchange.
2015Launch of Aurora, a removable, high-precision screen metering system.
2005AntiSleep is launched for the automotive industry as the first system with a camera and full 3D measurement.
2002Smart Eye Pro® is launched with three cameras and measurement in 3D; the first customer is Delphi Automotive.
2001First system sale of two cameras to SAAB Automobile.
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