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Intelligent Connected Vehicles and Autonomous Driving Executive Search

We deliver mission-critical C-suite & technical leaders for global intelligent connected vehicle engineering, autonomous driving R&D and smart mobility infrastructure businesses.
Intelligent Connected Vehicles and Autonomous Driving

Intelligent Connected Vehicles (ICV) and autonomous driving form the foundation of global smart mobility, covering unmanned transport, smart commercial fleets, V2X and urban intelligent traffic. Fast tech upgrades and stricter commercialization rules create a severe shortage of senior technical and strategic talents for perception algorithms, V2X systems, onboard hardware and high-precision mapping. Traditional recruitment fails to attract passive top specialists, slowing team setup and large-scale autonomous vehicle commercial rollout.

FORESTOWN offers global senior talent consulting for ICV & Autonomous Driving, serving OEMs, autonomous driving startups, mobility operators and onboard intelligent system suppliers. Our international network of cross-domain mobility and AI experts provides full-cycle services: vertical talent mapping, multi-dimensional technical audits, compliance checks and full onboarding, shortening team construction and improving cross-disciplinary matching accuracy.

As a trusted global smart mobility talent partner, we draw deep ICV technical & regulatory insights and worldwide talent resources to help enterprises build interdisciplinary elite R&D teams, ease high-end talent shortages and maintain long-term technical and commercial edges. Our bespoke executive talent schemes match clients’ cross-border road test layouts and mass production roadmaps, advancing standardized growth of the global ICV industry.

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Industry Landscape

Explosive growth of global ICV and full-stack autonomous driving industrial track

Rapid iteration in L2++ intelligent cruise, L4 unmanned driving, V2X networking and automotive onboard large models

Intense competition for algorithm R&D, mass production engineering, road operation and product commercialization executives

Need for leaders with cross-domain AI-automotive integration, cross-border road test governance and regulatory strategic alignment

Our Expertise

Subsectors We Cover

1. Full-Stack Autonomous Driving System & Perception Algorithm R&D
2. Intelligent Connected Vehicle (ICV) & V2X Vehicle Networking Infrastructure
3. ADAS Hardware, Lidar, In-Vehicle Chips & Intelligent Vehicle Sensors
4. High-Precision Mapping, Vehicle Cloud Platform & Fleet Dispatching Systems
5. Autonomous Driving Vehicle Mass Production & Intelligent Cockpit Integration
6. Unmanned Fleet Operation, Traffic Regulatory Compliance & Smart Transportation Solutions

Key Roles We Place

1. CEO, COO, CTO, CFO, Chief Mobility Strategy Officer (CMSO)
2. VP of Autonomous Driving Algorithm, Perception R&D & ICV System Engineering
3. VP of Intelligent Vehicle Mass Production & Road Test Operational Management
4. VP of Smart Mobility Commercialization & Global Strategic Business Development
5. Senior Director of Lidar Hardware, Cloud Platform & Regulatory Compliance Affairs
6. Overseas Intelligent Driving Test Base & Cross-Border Mobility Project Leadership

Our advantage

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74 Countries

FORESTOWN is a professional company of global high-end talent search and enterprise consulting services. It has its own strong knowledge base and global talent knowledge network, and its business covers 74 countries such as America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

5000 + Cooperative Customers

The FORESTOWN serves 5000 customers in 74 countries, and more than 1000 customers have established long-term and stable human resources strategic partnerships to help domestic enterprises introduce overseas talents, and at the same time recommend domestic talents to develop overseas.

10 Working Languages

FORESTOWN consultant team comes from different industries and high cultural backgrounds from all over the world. 45% of professional consultants can work bilingually. The language types involve: Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish 10 languages.

Exclusive Talent Pool

The FORESTOWN exclusively develops and owns the advanced Pipeline management system in China's headhunting industry. So far, it has gathered nearly 10 million people engaged in management, marketing, investment, technology, finance, human resources and other occupations, which are widely distributed in the industry's high-end elites at the level of manager-level director and general manager.

Senior Advisory Team

The FORESTOWN has a number of professional consultants who have delivered more than one million and top experts who have delivered more than ten million. Thousands of hunting cases are successfully completed every year. The consultant team comes from different industries and high cultural backgrounds from all over the world, with bachelor to doctoral degrees.

24 Hour Service

The consultant teams of the three branches of the FORESTOWN can cross time zones, and the three time zones can continuously serve customers 24 hours a day, and fully guarantee the speed and quality of service results.

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Our Executive Search Process

Brief & Industry Analysis

Target Mapping & Talent Intelligence

Assessment & Technical Validation

Shortlist & Stakeholder Alignment

Onboarding & Retention Support

Success Stories

Director of Autonomous Driving Perception Hire for a Global ICV Tech Enterprise

Director of Autonomous Driving Perception Hire for a Global ICV Tech Enterprise

Client Industry Intelligent Connected Vehicles & Autonomous Driving Challenge Client faced critical gaps in hiring a department director with deep multi-sensor fusion and L4 autonomous driving mass landing expertise, with severe shortage of commercial-ready senior ICV technical talents. Solution We launched a retained cross-border executive search project, leveraging our in-depth autonomous driving industrial leader network to screen and engage passive, high-potential senior candidates. Result Successfully placed the ideal candidate in 9.2 weeks, aligning with the client’s L4 autonomous driving commercial deployment roadmap, with a retention rate of 100% post-onboarding.

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