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At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.
Magna New Mobility is a business unit inside Magna International leveraging Magna’s technology building blocks, developing new capabilities, and entering new markets and use cases. Our products include advanced solutions for urban markets, industrial intralogistics, commercial and autonomous vehicles.
Magna New Mobility is also creating advanced software solutions that integrate with next-generation hardware. Our software is a core driver - turning our hardware into smart, integrated platforms for partners eager to advance the mobility sector.
Magna's New Mobility group is not just about building individual technologies; we aim to create integrated solutions that address the complex challenges of moving people efficiently and cost effectively in the 21st century. Join us in advancing and shaping the future of mobility.
The Customer Adoption & Solutions Lead is a senior, customer-facing leader responsible for ensuring customers successfully adopt, implement, and realize value from our material handling solutions, including SmartPick, SmartFleet, and SmartFreight.
This role serves as a critical bridge between customers and internal teams—Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, Product, and Leadership—bringing deep industry expertise and acting as a trusted advisor and voice of the customer across the organization.
With 10+ years of manufacturing and material handling experience, this individual will guide customers through complex operational environments, support account teams in overcoming adoption challenges, and influence product strategy to ensure our solutions deliver measurable, scalable value across our customer base.
Key Responsibilities:
Customer Adoption & Value Realization:
- Partner directly with customers to support successful implementation and adoption of SmartPick, SmartFleet, and SmartFreight.
- Act as a trusted advisor to customer stakeholders, helping align solutions to operational workflows, KPIs, and business objectives.
- Identify, diagnose, and help resolve adoption challenges, working closely with Customer Success Managers to drive usage, outcomes, and retention.
- Support strategic accounts where deeper industry expertise or intervention is required to unlock value.
Solutions Discovery & Enablement
- Collaborate with Solutions Engineers on onsite discovery and solution design, contributing operational insight and best-practice recommendations.
- Help translate customer needs into practical, scalable solutions that can be consistently deployed across the customer base.
- Provide guidance on solution fit, use cases, and operational change management.
Product Leadership & Voice of the Customer:
- Serve as a conduit of customer feedback to the Product team, ensuring real-world operational needs inform roadmap decisions.
- Help prioritize features and enhancements based on customer impact, adoption drivers, and cross-customer applicability.
- Participate in product reviews, roadmap discussions, and usability feedback sessions to shape intuitive, high-value solutions.
Internal Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Provide leadership and mentorship across Customer Success and Solutions teams through knowledge sharing and best-practice development.
- Partner with Sales, Solutions, and Customer Success to support renewals, expansions, and strategic growth opportunities.
- Elevate organizational understanding of customer challenges, industry trends, and operational realities.
Industry Expertise & Thought Leadership
- Represent the company as a material handling subject-matter expert in customer meetings, internal forums, and select industry engagements.
- Help define and document repeatable adoption frameworks, use cases, and implementation patterns.
- Contribute to internal enablement materials and external customer education efforts as needed.
Qualifications & Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in manufacturing, material handling, warehouse operations, logistics, or related industrial environments.
- Proven experience working directly with customers in a solutions, consulting, customer success, or implementation role.
- Strong understanding of material handling workflows, operational constraints, and performance metrics.
- Experience collaborating with product and engineering teams to shape or influence software or technology solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across cross-functional teams.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Willingness to travel as needed for customer onsite discovery and support.
Preferred Attributes:
- Experience with SaaS or technology-enabled material handling solutions.
- Background in process improvement, operational excellence, or continuous improvement methodologies.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and helping define structure, process, and best practices.
- Natural customer advocate with a practical, solution-oriented mindset.
What Success Looks Like in This Role:
- Customers achieve faster time-to-value and stronger adoption of SmartPick, SmartFleet, and SmartFreight.
- Reduced adoption friction and escalations across strategic accounts.
- Clear, actionable customer insights influencing product design and roadmap decisions.
- Stronger alignment between Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, and Product teams.
- Increased customer trust driven by deep industry credibility and operational understanding
Physical Requirements:
- Normal amount of sitting or standing, average mobility to move around an office environment, able to conduct normal amount of work at a computer
- Domestic and international travel 25 to 50%, as needed for role
At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That’s why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email or traditional mail to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.
AI-Assisted Screening Disclosure
As part of our commitment to a fair, consistent, and efficient recruitment process, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in the initial screening of applications submitted through our Workday system. These tools help identify qualifications and experience that align with the role requirements. Please note that AI is used solely to support our recruiters. Final decisions are always made by the hiring manager and the hiring team. Importantly, no applicant data is shared externally through these AI tools. All information remains securely within our systems and is handled in accordance with our privacy and data protection policies.
Under conditions defined by applicable law, you may have the right to request an explanation of how AI is used to support decision-making.
If you have any questions or concerns about this process, feel free to contact our Talent Attraction team.
Regular / Permanent
Magna Corporate
