Sr. Product Manager, Test Management Platform

About Lucid At Lucid, we are creating exceptional mobility experiences through innovation to drive the world forward. Built on Lucid’s proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture, our award-winning vehicles bring our “Compromise Nothing™” approach to the global automotive market. That means refusing to choose between performance and sustainability, design and engineering, ambition and integrity. In Lucid Air and Lucid Gravity, we have designed and built vehicles that have redefined their segments, combining exceptional range, performance, design, and expansive space in a single experience. We achieve this through deep vertical integration, with design, engineering, and production happening in-house across our global offices and manufacturing facilities. Our teams come from industries around the world, united by a shared commitment to excellence. By refusing to settle, you can help redefine what’s possible and shape the future of mobility. Engineering Workflow Platforms builds and operates the software Lucid uses to run its vehicle programs. Five products are live in production today, covering the planning bill of materials, engineering change management, software feature ownership, release readiness, and test fleet and vehicle build management. They are not five separate tools. Each one is a window onto a single data model that reconciles six systems of record, including Dassault 3DEXPERIENCE, SAP, MES, Auros, Jira, and Salesforce into one trustworthy answer to whether a program is ready for its next gate. We are forward deployed. We sit directly with Program Management, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Supplier Quality. We set our own OKRs and report against them in Monthly Business Reviews. AI-assisted work is core to how we operate, and it is what allows a team this size to carry this much surface area. The team is small, and it is growing. Role: We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to own verification and test management across the platform. That is the chain that runs from a requirement, to the test cases derived from it, to the runs that execute those cases, to the result a gate review accepts as evidence. The scope covers hardware and software. On the hardware side the platform has to carry the DVP, test requests, sample and build allocation, lab and track capacity, and the DV and PV campaigns behind each program gate. On the software side it has to carry suites running in CI, on bench, on HIL, and in vehicle, tied to a release candidate and to the feature they verify. The role is not the DVP owner and does not run tests. Test and Validation engineering does both, and will continue to. This will own the tooling they work in, the data model underneath it, and whether the coverage and evidence that come out of it survive a gate review. This is an internal product role, not a validation engineering role. This role is based in Phoenix, AZ and requires employees to be onsite five days a week. Key Responsibilities: • Capability Ownership: Verification and Test Management • Own the strategy and roadmap for test case management and test run management as one connected capability, and carry that area into the platform roadmap. • Own the traceability model that links requirement to test case to test run to result to defect, and hold it steady as new programs, new variants, and new test types arrive • Sequence delivery against real vehicle program gates, and be able to state which gate a given scope or staffing decision causes us to make or miss • Define the coverage and readiness measures a gate review actually uses • Own source-of-truth decisions inside your area across systems and define the reconciliation rules • Protect the integrity of the model against expedient one-off requests, and be able to explain the refusal in terms the requester accepts • Work through with the manager what belongs in the data model, in a pipeline, in the application, and in a process outside the system entirely • Requirements and Traceability • Make coverage answerable on demand: which requirements have test cases, which cases have run, which runs passed, and what is left before the gate • Drive migration off legacy requirements and test tooling, including the data cleanup and the working habits that migrate with the data • Keep the verification evidence an audit or a safety case requires attached to the object that produced it • Test Case and Test Run Management • Own the architecture of the test case library: authoring, review, reuse across variants and programs, versioning, and the link back to the requirement each case verifies • Own the paradigm for traceability of execution: campaigns and plans, scheduling against labs, benches, rigs, tracks, and test fleet vehicles, results capture, retest, deviations and waivers, and defect linkage • Make hardware and software execution reconcile into a single program-level verification picture rather than two parallel ones • Partner with test engineering on where the platform should automate and where it should stay out of the way • Cross-Functional Leadership • Build and hold relationships with director-level stakeholders across Test and Validation, Systems Engineering, Software, Hardware Engineering, Quality, Homologation, and Program Management • Take recommendations into VP-level forums with the manager, and be the person who answers the detail questions in the room • Broker priority conflicts between functions with legitimate competing needs, and get to a decision that holds • Represent the capability in program reviews and gate reviews so the roadmap stays tied to what programs actually need next • Discovery, Definition, and Decisions • Run discovery with the people who actually run tests: in the lab, at the bench, on the track, and in the pipeline, not only in the review meeting • Write the specifications, decision records, and proposals that set direction, covering the problem, the options considered, t