Rejitha Rajan

Lead product maturity and delivery for the 2027 Volvo and Mack vocational and highway truck programs, with a primary focus on North American market delivery and coordination across globally distributed product, software, and engineering organizations.

• Own the product roadmap across multiple production milestones, integrating software, hardware, testing, quality, and production readiness.
• Serve as the integrated product delivery gatekeeper, identifying dependencies, resolving blockers, and maintaining alignment to product commitments.
• Established a common roadmap planning approach for North American teams, aligning timelines with global product-development practices.
• Lead weekly product reviews with Chief Project Managers, Product Managers, Product Owners, Function Owners, Software Integration Leaders, and Software Group Managers, driving alignment and timely decisions.
• Translate complex technical risks into business implications and decision points for senior stakeholders.
• Lead task forces for high-priority software quality issues, bringing together multiple engineering streams to establish ownership, prioritize actions, and drive closure.
• Drive product execution across 25+ engineering organizations, spanning North America, Europe, India, and South America.
• Govern truck testing and rebuild activities across product maturity stages, balancing issue resolution, validation needs, and launch-readiness timelines.
• Facilitate procurement activities supporting more than five strategic suppliers through internal procurement and supplier-facilitation teams.

• Introduced structured product development and engineering processes at an early-stage EV startup, establishing repeatable methods for design evaluation and technical decision-making before the first prototype was ready.
• Built the organization's structural engineering capability, and established simulation-led methods for evaluating product architecture and design decisions.
• Influenced product development decisions by translating engineering analysis into actionable recommendations for design and product teams.
• Improved engineering cost efficiency through design optimization, reduction of unnecessary over-engineering, and evaluation of economical simulation approaches.
• Contributed to building the engineering organization, including the recruitment and evaluation of new team members.

• Advanced motorcycle product development through acoustic simulation, vehicle refinement, and engineering innovation.
• Led the acoustic simulation initiative with IIT Madras Acoustic and NVH Lab to recreate Royal Enfield exhaust signature for new motorcycle platforms, enhancing brand identity.
• Achieved approximately 70% correlation between simulation and physical test results, supporting development decisions related to evolving European noise requirements.
• Received second prize at the national MSC Software Symposium for the project.

• Joined as a graduate engineer, and worked across aerospace, construction equipment, automotive, and mining programs, developing foundational experience in complex product development and structural engineering.