Top CIO Executive Search Firm in Gurgaon for Automotive — 2026

Gurgaon and the Manesar belt are home to the headquarters and plants of major automotive and two-wheeler OEMs, a deep components ecosystem, and a growing EV and mobility-platform scene. The automotive technology-leadership seat here spans an enterprise and digital CIO at an OEM — owning dealer, sales, after-sales, connected-vehicle and the digital-and-data agenda alongside digital manufacturing — and a mobility or EV platform CTO building at start-up speed. The defining scarcity is the technology leader who can drive the connected-and-digital transformation of an automotive business while bridging plant operational technology and enterprise IT, or build a mobility platform that scales. The failure mode is an enterprise-IT administrator who cannot lead the connected agenda, or a platform builder who underestimates automotive complexity.

The search is calibrated to the segment and capital structure. OEMs and components businesses are cash-led with performance pay and equity, with global captives benchmarked to parent bands; EV and mobility start-ups are equity-led. The brief sets which applies. The stakeholder map runs from the CEO, board and plant and engineering leadership to global principals and investors. References reach to plant heads, engineering and commercial reports, because the question that decides these mandates — can this leader drive the connected-and-digital agenda or build a mobility platform — is answered by those who have watched the work land.