Automotive & Mobility Executive Roles — OEMs, Suppliers, EV/AV
More than 75 executive roles classified in Automotive & Mobility, with 1 new this week. Engineering, manufacturing, and platform-product leaders at OEMs, suppliers, EV makers, autonomous-vehicle companies, and mobility platforms.
Tier breakdown
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Founder3
C-Suite42
VP2
Sr Director28
DirectorWhat this category covers
Automotive & Mobility covers executive roles at automakers, tier-1 suppliers, EV-native companies, autonomous-vehicle developers, and mobility platforms (rideshare, fleet, micromobility). Engineering, manufacturing, and platform-product leadership dominate.
Across the 75 active roles in this category, the largest tier is VP. The classifier weighs company size, scope, and reporting line — not just the title prefix — so the tier mix reflects real responsibility, not vanity titles.
Sample Jobs (10 of 75)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Global Director of Sales - Sensors Affinity The Director of Sales is responsible for driving orders, revenue growth, and profitable market expansion across a $200M organization through existing customer relationships and new business opportunities. Director | Detroit, MI Hybrid |
| Programme Management Office (PMO) Lead Carwow Lead programme management capabilities, governance, and delivery of high-stakes programmes at Carwow. VP | London Hybrid |
| Director of Platform Management for Simulation, Evaluation & Validation Wayve Lead product vision and strategy for platforms used in AI Driver development, including simulation, evaluation, and validation. Director | London, United Kingdom and Sunnyvale, California, USA Hybrid |
| Head of Partnerships Kodiak Robotics, Inc. Responsible for building and managing strategic relationships to power Kodiak's growth in autonomous trucking. VP | Remote, United States Remote |
| Plant Controller ... Plastic Components Supplier Seeking a Plant Controller to lead financial reporting, cost accounting, and manufacturing finance initiatives. Responsibilities include overseeing inventory and standard cost accounting, analyzing manufacturing variances and profitability, and managing budgeting, forecasting, and capital expenditure reporting. VP | Dalton, GA Onsite |
| Head of Global EHS Waymo The role involves setting global EHS strategy, driving digital transformation, leading a team, and managing risk. Requirements include a Bachelor's degree in a related field and 12+ years of EHS management experience. VP | Mountain View, California, United States Hybrid |
| Sr. Director, Manufacturing Engineering ALSO Lead manufacturing engineering for electric vehicles, develop strategies, manage execution, and collaborate with teams for product design and manufacturing. Sr Director | Palo Alto, CA Onsite |
| Director, Supplier Quality Divergent Lead the development and execution of Divergent's global supplier quality strategy, ensuring all externally sourced components meet quality standards. Director | Torrance, California, United States Onsite |
| Network Company President Teamshares Lead a small business in the automotive parts and distribution industry, manage P&L, and transition to employee ownership. C-Suite | Corona, CA Onsite |
| Principal, Executive Recruiting Lead Zoox Lead and manage the executive recruiting team at Zoox, executing Director/VP+ leadership searches and driving the infrastructure of the executive search function. VP | Foster City, CA Hybrid |
How classification gets to this category
Automotive & Mobility classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other category, with category-specific signal at three stages:
- Title recognition. Direct title hits resolve fast — common variants are recognized immediately, including the senior, VP, and Director-tier flavors.
- Compensation threshold. An exec-tier base-comp floor filters out individual-contributor roles that share the title language. Roles below the floor in unambiguous category titles are flagged for manual review rather than auto-classified.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the JD for vehicle-program scope, software-vs-hardware emphasis, and OEM-vs-supplier distinction. The classifier disambiguates pure-software mobility companies from automakers. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
Negative filters explicitly block adjacent IC and analyst roles whose titles can resemble executive ones. The result: Automotive & Mobility as a category in your inbox is the executive cut, not the entry-level cut.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Automotive & Mobility is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Automotive & Mobility + CTO/Technology Leadership and you see VPs of Engineering and Software across EV and AV companies — your inbox shows the intersection, not the union. You won't see roles that match only one of the filters and not the other.
Tier filtering layers on top. If you only want VP-tier and above in this category, the seniority-tier filter does that cleanly. Restrict further to C-suite only to see the most senior seats, or open it up to Director-tier to widen the funnel during early-stage exploration.
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