Sr Manager, ADAS Data and Software Validation & Release

Ann Arbor, MIProduct & Technology – AD/ADAS /Employee /Hybrid Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by a legacy of innovating for the benefit of others, our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation — expanding what “mobility” means and how it serves society.

Our work centers on four pillars: AD/ADAS, our autonomous driving and advanced driver assist technologies;
Arene, our software development platform for software-defined vehicles;
Woven City, a test course for mobility; and Cloud & AI, the digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation. Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute, and together, we’re working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly experienced Sr Manager, ADAS Data and Software Validation & Release, reporting to the Director of Project and Program Management, AD/ADAS. This leader will oversee the Technical Program Management (TPM) team responsible for planning, executing, and delivering data, validation, and release activities for complex AD/ADAS programs. The role will drive cross-functional alignment among global engineering and product teams, ensuring program milestones are achieved on time, with high quality and strong customer satisfaction.

The ideal candidate brings deep production AD/ADAS experience, strong software validation and machine-learning program management capability, and a proven communication and leadership ability to collaborate with teams across WbyT and external stakeholders to steer programs toward successful delivery from inception to production. This role requires high accountability, a strong results orientation, a data-driven mindset, and the ability to build trusted relationships across all areas of the organization.

You should be highly motivated by the challenge of bringing complex technology programs to market and adept at solving interdisciplinary problems with a strong focus on execution. In this role, you will work with a talented group of cross-functional stakeholders across organizations to develop execution plans that facilitate the launch of ADAS products and features.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide strategic leadership to the TPM team within AD/ADAS, delivering data and validation initiatives from concept through production while ensuring priorities, ownership, dependencies, milestones, and execution plans are clearly defined, aligned, and delivered. Cultivate TPM expertise by establishing clear roles, accountability mechanisms, operating standards, and measurable objectives; coach team members and track KPIs to assess delivery performance, stakeholder alignment, execution quality, and continuous improvement.

Identify and proactively mitigate risks that may impact program timelines, quality, or efficiency. Develop contingency plans to address challenges related to deployment, infrastructure, and system integration. Communicate program updates, risks, and dependencies to senior leadership and key internal and external stakeholders.

Guides development activities across multi-disciplinary engineering (Engineering, Product, Hardware, Software, Operations, etc.) to advance design, validation, failure analysis, and set appropriate pass/fail criteria.

Drive accountability across teams and remove execution barriers, proactively resolving conflicts, identifying blockers, escalating decisions where needed, mobilizing solutions to keep data collection, processing, and software validation activities on track

Build and scale program management,  validation, and release processes to drive consistency, transparency,…