What You'll Do
Leadership and people (manager of managers)
- Lead an organization of 45 to 50 embedded software engineers through 3 to 5 engineering managers and technical leaders.
- Own hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, career development, succession planning and retention for your leaders and their teams.
- Build a strong leadership bench, reduce single-point dependencies and develop the next line of managers.
- Set clear goals and priorities, run an effective operating rhythm, and create a healthy, inclusive and high-performance culture.
Delivery and execution
- Deliver more than 95 percent on-time delivery across key portfolios while operating within a flat headcount and budget envelope.
- Own release predictability, software quality, defect triage, field issue resolution and customer escalations.
- Drive Agile and Scrum practices, milestone planning, risk management and cross-team dependency management.
Technical governance
- Provide technical direction across embedded firmware, desktop, on-premise, cloud-connected and mobile applications.
- Own architecture governance, design and code reviews, reuse strategy, technical debt reduction and platform thinking.
- Ensure engineering rigor for safety-critical and regulated products, including functional safety and cybersecurity compliance.
Portfolio and stakeholders
- Own multiple product lines across emergency lighting, fire safety, intrusion and UPS systems from concept to sustaining.
- Partner with product management, global engineering leaders, quality, supply chain and customers to align roadmaps and commitments.
- Contribute to annual operating planning, capacity planning, vendor strategy and capital and operating expense decisions.
Innovation and AI adoption
- Champion AI-assisted engineering (for example code assistants and test automation) and drive measurable productivity and quality gains.
- Lead innovation initiatives, protect time for experimentation, and encourage patents, disclosures and reuse.
- Teach, mentor and coach engineering and Agile best practices across the broader engineering community.
Qualifications
Required: Bachelor's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Computer Science or related engineering discipline.
Desired: Master's degree in Electronics, Electrical, Computer Science or Embedded Systems.
Skills
- 15 to 18 years of design experience of embedded systems software - embedded linux and RTOS
- Prior experience as organizational leader for a minum of 5 to 10 years in globally distributed teams
- Experience leading organizations with at least 40 members
- Experience utilizing best practices in software engineering, Agile development methodologies, CI/CD, DevOps, etc.
Experience with budget, staffing and capacity planning for a sizeable engineering organization
- Knowledgeable about industry trends, best practices, and change management.
- Experience in Embedded Systems including RTOS and Linux based platforms - Software stacks of FreeRTOS and Zephyr, Linux - Yocto, EdgeX
- Track record of demonstrated lauches of products
- Proven digitally savvy leader experienced in delivering monetized IoT products and services to market.
- Experienced with software software estimation techniques, fieldbus protocols for industrial IoT products.
- Ability to work within matrixed environments.
- Proven track record of building and managing successful development teams.
- Expert level working knowledge of open source software, agile methodologies, design thinking techniques and ability to employ open, shared and saleable development principles within an enterprise.
- Empathizes and actively learns about customer's needs and how they create value.
- Builds relationships outside of engineering teams to understand, influence, and serve as their advocate.
- Demonstrated experience in building organizational capabilities around technology; developments high performing talent and builds succession depth.
- Strong organizational leadership skills.
- Extensive experience in hiring talented people for diverse, productive development teams.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and resolve issues that impact deadlines; ability to make decisions quickly under conflicting constraints, moving rapidly to meet the demands of a fast-growing company.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate and interact with a variety of internal/external customers and/or co-workers.
