Regional Technical Product Leader – Korea & Japan OEMsVisteon | Driving the Future of Software-Defined Mobility
About the role
Visteon is seeking a customer-facing technical leader to drive our cockpit electronics business across Korea and Japan OEMs.
In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor to key automotive customers, supporting early-stage product discussions, influencing technology direction, and strengthening long-term partnerships. You will work closely with both regional customers and global teams to align Visteon’s advanced cockpit solutions with market needs.
This position is ideal for professionals who value long-term relationship building, technical depth, and cross-cultural collaboration in a global environment.
Your responsibilities
- Customer engagement & relationship building
- Serve as the primary technical contact for 5–7 key OEM customers in Korea and Japan
- Build trusted, long-term relationships with engineering and product teams
- Understand OEM development cycles, decision-making processes, and organizational structures
- Technical leadership & pre-sales
- Lead technical discussions, workshops, and solution presentations
- Support early engagement before RFIs/RFQs to influence product direction
- Provide structured and reliable technical guidance aligned with customer expectations
- Product advocacy & market representation
- Represent Visteon’s digital cockpit, display, and EV technologies
- Participate in industry events, customer reviews, and technical forums
- Deliver high-quality demonstrations tailored to OEM requirements
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Work closely with global engineering, product, and strategy teams
- Ensure alignment between customer requirements and Visteon’s roadmap
- Provide timely feedback and escalation support to internal teams
- Market insight & continuous improvement
- Share insights on Korean and Japanese automotive trends, competitors, and customer needs
- Contribute to improving product quality, reliability, and feature prioritization
- What success looks like
- Strong, trusted relationships established with key OEM stakeholders
- Increased success rate and speed in securing new business
- Positive feedback from customers on technical engagement and support
- Clear contribution to product roadmap through market insights
- Consistent pipeline growth across Korea and Japan markets
What you bring
- Experience & expertise
- Background in software engineering, systems engineering, product management, or technical sales
- Experience working with Korean and/or Japanese automotive OEMs or Tier 1 suppliers
- Understanding of automotive cockpit systems (clusters, infotainment, displays, embedded software)
- Communication & collaboration
- Strong ability to communicate clearly in structured and professional settings
- Respect for cultural nuances and business etiquette in Korea and Japan
- Ability to work effectively across global, matrixed organizations
- Language skills
- Fluent Korean and English (required)
- Japanese language capability is highly preferred
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- Master’s degree is an advantage
- Working style we value
- Builds trust through consistency, reliability, and technical credibility
- Takes a structured and detail-oriented approach to problem-solving
- Demonstrates patience and persistence in long-term engagements
- Respects processes while proactively driving outcomes
- Collaborates effectively across regions and functions
- Organization & reporting
- Reports to Vice President
- Product Management (Cockpit Product Line)
- Works closely with Korea and Japan Customer Business Groups (CBGs) and global teams
- Why Visteon
- Established global leader with strong presence in automotive electronics
- Opportunity to work with top OEMs in Korea and Japan
- Exposure to advanced technologies in software-defined vehicles and electrification
- Collaborative global environment with long-term growth opportunities
