SR Director - CTO Emobility

The CTO E-Mobility is the global technology leader for TE Connectivity’s E-Mobility Value Driver (product line) and a key member of the AutoX leadership team. Together with the value driver leadership and the regional CTOs, the role ensures a profitable business growth of TE’s E-Mobility sector based on AutoX’s mission to:

• Create Horizon 2/3 technologies that protect TE and the E-Mobility Product Line from disruptive shifts and secure future profitable growth
• Increase engineering productivity e.g. through platforms, reuse, and AI tools
• Supporting regional R&D teams on selected NPI projects

The role operates across regions, manufacturing, and external partners.

Job Requirements

Technology Roadmap: Define and own the global E-Mobility technology and platform roadmap (Horizon 2&3) together with the stakeholders in the regions, product management and operations. Drive the Horizon 2/3 product development in a non-academic, agile style with business mindset, including external partnerships and advanced developments. Support technology due diligence for partnerships, ventures, and acquisitions

Engineering Productivity: Drive standardization, modular platforms, and reuse across regions. Define and implement state-of-the-art AI tools to increase engineering productivity by 30% during the next 5 years.

Engineering Excellence: Harmonize toolchains and methods across regions; set SLAs and capability catalogues; institutionalize D4 delivery approach (Discover, Design, Deliver, Decide).

Governance & Integration: run Tech Leadership Council for E-Mobility, Garage Board, and QBRs; ensure portfolio alignment and a clean intake and prioritization process. Act as the global technology integrator across APAC, EMIA, and Americas. Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to ensure DFM, automation readiness, and scalability.

People & Culture: build a high-trust, startup-mindset team, rebalance global presence including China to match market needs and opportunities.

Hands-on system-level experience across E-Mobility interconnect and protection technologies, including:

High-Voltage Interconnects (HVIC)

HV connectors, terminals, busbars, insulation systems, creepage/clearance, thermal and safety requirements

Charging Inlets & Interfaces

AC/DC charging standards, mechanical and electrical interfaces, sealing, durability, system integration

Battery Protection

Electrical, mechanical, and thermal protection concepts; sensing; safety architectures; standards compliance, * Increased reuse rate in E-Mobility NPIs

• Reduced development time and design iterations
• Adoption of AutoX platforms and AI tools
• Maturity and value creation from Horizon 2/3 initiatives
• Manufacturing readiness at design freeze / Market readiness

What your background should look like

• 15+ years in automotive or industrial electronics, connectors, interconnects or adjacent electromechanical systems with global engineering leadership in a matrix environment.
• Proven delivery of next generation technologies across regions; experience in cross functional platforming and modularization.
• Strong influencer without formal authority
• Externally oriented, future-focused, and comfortable with ambiguity
• Thinks in systems, scalability, and ecosystems

We are pleased to offer you an exciting total package that can also be flexibly adapted to changing life situations - the well-being of our employees is our top priority!

• Competitive Salary Package
• Performance-Based Bonus Plans
• Health and Wellness Incentives
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Community Outreach Programs / Charity Events
• Employee Resource Group

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.

Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter)., Across our global sites and business units, we put together packages of benefits that are either supported by TE itself or provided by external service providers. In principle, the benefits offered can vary from site to site.