Senior Director Functional Safety

Position Objectives / Deliverables

• Transform Functional Safety into a clear differentiator for NXP, making NXP safety iconic.
• Empower team managers to drive development and delivery of Functional Safety for all NXP microcontroller, microprocessor and analog products.
• Spearhead roadmap definition and technology development of IP and reuse assets to efficiently deliver functional safety for NXP’s new product roadmap.
• Champion Customer Support and Enablement activities driven by a leader in your team.
• Drive alignment on best practices for functional safety product development across your team as well as with the other hardware and software safety development teams.
• Spearhead development of new capabilities, including use of AI, to deliver breakthrough improvements in functional safety new product development efficiency.
• Forge collaborative partnerships both internally and externally for new capabilities and opportunities that help address NXP’s business, quality, efficiency, etc. goals.
• Drive Functional Safety Technical Steering Team activities with partners across the NXP business lines, including technology roadmap.

Competences / Skills Desired

• Strong organizational leadership skills.
• Strong execution focus along with the ability to inspire, engage, and motivate.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Navigate the organizational matrix, build networks, collaborate productively with others and own collective outcomes.
• Able to identify, drive, and balance organization performing and transforming objectives and initiatives.
• Good business acumen and functional safety technical know-how, ideally with some systems engineering knowledge.
• Able to set and deliver a team strategy.
• Able to attract the industry's best talent.
• Able to inspire and accelerate teams to perform beyond what they think is possible and the industry's state of the art.
• Expertise in coaching team members to continuously enhance capabilities.
• AI and requirements management knowledge (nice to have).

Background / Experience Desired

• Combined 10+ technical experience and expertise in functional safety, chip design, and electronic system design.
• Systems, hardware and software engineering knowledge and experience preferred.
• Knowledge of automotive and/on industrial markets from a functional safety perspective.
• 5 + years of experience leading a team with multiple focus topics.
• 5+ years solid experience of leading a globally-dispersed team of managers.