Building and leading Arrival's core innovation team of 10-15 people - reporting directly to the CEO. Strategic development of novel technologies and solutions across Arrival's current and future product portfolio, and the tools and processes to support this.

Due to the confidential nature of the work conducted in Product Innovation, the work cannot be disclosed here. However, projects broadly covered the themes below:

- Design for improved automation in assembly
- Radical architecture redesign for improved cost/mass/performance
- Advanced vehicle features, SW/HW
- Sustainability and scalability through advanced materials and manufacturing utilisation

Some of the themes around automation are discussed in this patent