Top CTO Executive Search Firm in Gurgaon for Automotive — 2026

Gurgaon and the Manesar belt are home to major automotive and two-wheeler OEMs, and around them an automotive-software, EV and mobility-technology scene has grown, with many head offices along Golf Course Road and in Cyber City. The automotive CTO here is an engineering-product builder: the leader owns vehicle and connected-vehicle software, the embedded and platform engineering, the EV or mobility product, and the technical roadmap for what the company actually builds and sells. This is the builder's seat — distinct from a CIO who runs enterprise and plant IT; the CTO builds the product technology, the CIO runs the systems estate.

The search is calibrated to Gurgaon's blend of established industry and aggressive cash. Venture-backed EV and mobility players pay ESOP-led packages where stage fit weighs as much as base; the OEM-linked technology arms pay strong, structured packages with long-term incentives — and the brief settles which applies. Engineering-leadership mobility is real across the Manesar belt's OEMs and the mobility-tech players, so the search reads embedded-and-platform engineering depth, connected-vehicle architecture and team-building command as closely as seniority. The stakeholder map runs from founder or CEO to product and the engineering org the CTO builds, and references reach to engineers who have built under this leader, because an automotive CTO mandate in Gurgaon is decided by whether this builder can ship the vehicle and mobility technology the business is betting on.