The Managing Director (MD) - India Operations leads the India operations of UEI. The role is focused on building and scaling high-performance product and engineering teams, driving innovation, ensuring strong governance, and aligning India's product development capabilities with the company's global product strategy.
This is a product-centric leadership role with full responsibility for operational oversight, talent strategy, regulatory compliance, and financial performance of the Indian entity.
The MD-India Operations will report to the Global Sr. VP-Engineering.
Responsibilities:
- Define and execute India's strategy as a part of Global product development organization
- Align engineering and project roadmaps with global business priorities
- Drive long-term capability building in areas such as platform architecture, AI/ML, cloud-native systems, and product scalability
- Provide strategic insights on technology trends, talent markets, and innovation opportunities in India
- Product & Engineering Leadership
- Oversee end-to-end project development lifecycle
- Ensure high standards of architecture, scalability, performance, and reliability
- Drive technical excellence, code quality, and secure development practices
- Collaborate with global Product/Project Management to translate business needs into execution
- Innovation & Technology Direction
- Build India as a center of excellence for product development
- Sponsor R&D initiatives and emerging technology exploration
- Strengthen platform capabilities, cloud optimization, and product modernization
- Encourage IP creation, patents, and differentiated product capabilities
- Financial & Operational Management
- Own India entity financial performance
- Develop and manage annual budgets and operating plans
- Ensure cost optimization without compromising on productivity and product quality
- Align financial reporting with US parent company requirements
- Ensure Governance & Regulatory Compliance w.r.t financial and labor compliances
- Oversee statutory audits, filings, and board governance processes
- Act as Director on the Board of the Indian subsidiary
- Oversight of all other support functions to ensure business continuity
- Talent & Culture Leadership
- Build and retain high-caliber engineering and product teams
- Develop succession plans and leadership bench strength
- Foster a product-driven, innovation-first culture
- Ensure alignment with global corporate values and performance standards
- Promote diversity, inclusion, and ethical conduct
- Cross-Border Alignment
- Serve as primary liaison between India operations and other UEI locations, including US headquarters
- Ensure consistent execution of global product strategy
- Maintain transparency in performance reporting and risk management
- Drive strong collaboration across distributed global teams
- Functional Responsibilities
- Responsible for directly managing SQA (SW development process definition and compliance team), IVV (Independent testing team), and Advance Tech (Platform development team)
- Responsible for directly managing China SW team, providing support for dedicated, preset and Aircon RCU SW development. Also providing support for production programming setup
- Responsible for Japan outsource SW development team to support projects in Japan (Daikin, Mitsubishi). This team also provides design review support with customers in Japan
- Responsible for oversight to Firmware, Data Management, QS Cloud and QS SDK teams.
- Responsible for oversight to support teams (HR, Finance, IT and Facilities)
- Make In India Initiative
- Provide local management oversight to Make in India projects
- Help with identifying and developing local suppliers and relationship building with R&D teams of the customer
Qualification / skills:
- BE/BTech/MTech/MS in ECE/EEE/Telecom/Computer Science. An MBA will be desirable
- 20+ years of overall experience, with 10+ years of technical management and people management, with 10+ years in senior leadership roles managing large engineering organizations including operations and budget management
- Proven experience in scaling and managing Embedded software products development, process definition and compliance and aligning with industry trends
- Good understanding of cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and secure development
- Ability to advise others and manage divergent interests and perspectives
- Experience working in a global, cross-border product organization
- Strong product and platform mindset
- Deep engineering credibility
- Strategic and systems thinking
- Financial discipline
- Governance orientation
- High integrity and accountability
- Ability to scale teams and manage complexity
- Ability to create plans to align technical issues with business strategy
- Advanced people management skills
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