Technical Lead Engineer – Active with Bike

Bring your life

Want to join a dynamic team creating world-leading products that make it easy to bring what you care about - securely and in style - while living an active life? If you're a team player who thrives in a sustainability-driven environment and wants to shape products that inspire an active lifestyle, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

What you´ll do at Thule

As a Technical Lead Engineer - Active with Bike, you will play a key role in our design engineering team, developing technical solutions for our American bike racks and related accessories. This is a growing and strategically important product category,  for our American market and manufacturing, and we are expanding the team to meet a strong project pipeline.

In this role, you will ensure a structured development process while adhering to project and engineering routines. You will take an active role in prioritizing and managing the technical aspects and delegating engineering tasks within the team throughout the process. This includes evaluating prototypes, analyzing test results, validating design strength, documenting technical aspects, and managing design risks.

You will have ownership of the technical content and direction of the product, ensuring that our products are safe, easy to use, and uphold our premium quality standards. You will serve as a key problem solver and represent the design engineering team in close collaboration with project managers, product managers, purchasing, prototype, and other departments. Within cross-functional projects, your role includes moderating technical discussions, driving decision-making processes, and ensuring alignment across teams to meet our high standards of quality, innovation, and sustainability.

Externally, this position is titled Technical Lead Engineer to align with industry standards, while the internal title at Thule is Chief Engineer.

What you bring

To be successful in this role, we believe that you have an academic degree in mechanical design engineering or similar, and extensive documented experience within mechanical design engineering.

We also believe you have experience working with different materials, including sheet metal processing and plastics for injection-molded components, and understand how to optimize them for functionality, strength, and safety. Experience with consumer goods is also considered important. You are fluent in English, both spoken and written.

As the role involves practical elements, we assume that you thrive in environments with hands-on product development. You are self-driven, structured, and have a good ability to prioritize various projects and tasks.

Why you should join Thule

At Thule, we believe in strong teamwork both within your own team but also cross-functional between teams. We strive to be an open and curious organization, sharing our knowledge and inspiring one another. Within Thule Group you will find people who have a passion for the products we make and the outdoor company we are. We share the same values, and we like to have fun. All of our employees have a joint responsibility to maintain that spirit and contribute to it.

Hiring Process

Apply by submitting your application and resumé through “Apply for position” on our Thule Career Site. The application deadline is October 31, 2025.

Please make sure to not wait to show your interest until the last application date as interviews are held continuously during the process, and the position might be filled before the last application date. Please also note that we do not accept applications by e-mail.

If you have any questions about the role, feel free to contact our Talent Acquisition Partner, Oscar Persson, at Oscar.persson@thule.com

We look forward to hearing from you!