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Director of Product and Engineering Operations
Not specifiedFull-timeOperational Excellence
Lead the strategy, team, and operating model connecting product planning, project execution, software development, and organizational decision-making across R&D.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead the Product and Engineering Operations team
- Set the strategy and roadmap for operational excellence across product, development, program management, and validation
- Establish company-wide operating models, processes, governance, ownership, and accountability
- Partner with senior leaders to improve execution, predictability, and organizational efficiency
- Direct initiatives involving workflows, planning and reporting systems, ALM tools, automation, and AI-enabled productivity
- Prioritize operational investments and team resources according to business impact and organizational needs
- Ensure processes support ASPICE and other applicable development standards while remaining practical
- Create KPI frameworks, dashboards, monitoring systems, and operational review cadences
- Use data to identify bottlenecks, prioritize improvements, and measure outcomes
- Lead organizational change and sustain adoption of new ways of working
- Represent the function in senior leadership forums and communicate priorities, results, and risks
Requirements
- 10+ years in program management, engineering operations, product operations, development leadership, or a related field, including substantial leadership responsibility
- Hands-on experience in product management or software development
- Experience building and leading teams and owning a function or significant cross-organizational portfolio
- Success delivering company-wide operational strategies, process transformations, or systems initiatives with measurable results
- Strong understanding of software and product development practices
- Experience with ASPICE, ISO 15288, ISO 26262, or comparable development frameworks
- Experience with planning, tracking, reporting, workflow, or ALM platforms
- Experience establishing KPI frameworks, dashboards, monitoring systems, and executive reviews
- Ability to align senior stakeholders, manage competing priorities, and drive organizational change
- Strong analytical, stakeholder-management, and executive communication skills