Hybrid Senior Manager, Software Verification & Validation

at Woven Planet

• Job title: Senior Manager, Software Verification & Validation
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $161,000 - $264,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Palo Alto, United States

About the role

• Senior Manager leading software verification and validation for AD/ADAS technologies at Woven by Toyota. Responsible for ensuring quality and safety in vehicle software systems and collaborating with global teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the Verification & Validation function for Product Delivery. Ensure the teams build and execute test methods and environments that are best modern practice. Drive resulting analysis to satisfy the arguments of the release case.
• Receive decomposed customer-level requirements, or conceptual and historical design studies and experiments to generate test methods. Support test driven development activities to help elicit requirements and feed results back to definition and functional creation teams.
• Support definition and execute the end‑to‑end test strategy – coordinate testing levels, modalities (SIM, Closed Course, On-Road, SIL/HIL), ensuring our test approach aligns with Product and customer level requirements and roadmap.
• Ensure robust verification of system requirements and proxy validation of customer requirements – own the frameworks, ownership model, and RACI for validation so that system, software, and customer‑level needs are consistently tested and traceable - executing.
• Set quality gates, metrics, and reporting for V&V outcomes – define performance and quality metrics, acceptance criteria, and reporting that feed Release decisions, enabling data‑driven releases and continuous improvement.
• Represent V&V in cross‑functional and external forums – act as the accountable voice of V&V with Product Delivery leadership, other AD/ADAS functions, and TMC, communicating status, risks, and trade‑offs to support safe, predictable product integration and launch.

Requirements

• 8+ years experience with software systems verification and validation in a production setting, as an individual contributor or team lead (in combination)
• Proven ability to launch software systems to production with a demonstrated track record. Point to production program launches - inside or outside of the automotive industry - where your team’s work played a critical role in ensuring the system launched to market with high quality.
• Demonstrated ability to build teams, especially with respect to quality-associated deliverables. Showcase how you developed and implemented foundational standard operating procedures leading to higher quality team output.
• Strong communicator, especially in a global team environment.
• Automotive ADAS Domain experience is considered a plus, but not required.

Benefits

• Excellent health, wellness, dental and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• Flexible vacation policy
• Family planning and care benefits