Volkswagen AG

Volkswagen, shortened to VW, is a German automaker founded on May 28, 1937 by the German Labour Front and headquartered in Wolfsburg. It is the flagship marque of the Volkswagen Group, the largest automaker by worldwide sales in 2016.

21/03/2026
Full time
Volkswagen AG Wolfsburg, Germany
Work environment As part of your doctorate, you will work on a practical dissertation at the TrafoHub of Volkswagen Group IT at the interface of change management, human-centered AI and product organization. The TrafoHub is the central enabler for the transformation of Volkswagen Group IT towards a value-stream- and product-oriented organization based on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Among other things, new collaboration models between IT and business as well as change and enablement approaches are developed, piloted and scaled here. Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing processes, roles and decision-making logics. Our goal: a responsible human-centered transformation towards an AI-first organization. Your dissertation is closely linked to the ambitious AI offensive of Volkswagen Group IT and enables the active shaping of forward-looking work structures, role models and control and governance mechanisms. You will work in a real transformation...