Director of Engineering - Software, Hardware, Robotics (m/f/d)

Autonomous Teaming

🇩🇪 Germany

On-site

Manager or above

2 months ago

AI
Agile
Devops
Scaled Agile
Computer Vision

2 months ago

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In this important and responsible management role, you will have the opportunity to own a decisive part in shaping the success of our complex products by coordinating high professional tech teams. You will transform our R&D engineering organization into a high-performing product and delivery organization.
You will define and set the development strategy, orchestrate the engineering teams (software, hardware, AI), and own the responsibility for product planning and delivery.
In close cooperation with the CTO, you translate the technical vision and market needs into the organization.
You will ensure smooth collaboration across tech teams and at cross-functional interfaces, aligned with operational excellence, thereby establishing a repeatable process from prototype to market readiness to delivery.
Your responsibilities in detail

End-to-end ownership of product development of our two main product lines – across hardware and software domains
Leading and developing program managers and technical leads
Optimizing the product development process for scalability (roadmaps, milestones, agile stage-gates, time-to-market)
Orchestrating cross-functional technical teams in different locations, resolving dependencies between product lines, and leveraging synergies by centralizing relevant functions for all teams (e.g., DevOps, QM)
Managing resources, capacity, and priorities across teams related to an efficient product development
Providing transparent reporting to the CTO and the whole management on progress, feasibility, risks, and trade-offs, and coordinating the future strategy
Building an engineering organization capable of scaling up (scale-up readiness)
Stakeholder management

Education

You have an university degree in Business IT or engineering (Wirtschaftsinformatik oder Wirtschaftsingenieur), Industrial Engineer from a top university
Ideally, you spent the first few years of your career in a leading management consultancy working on projects with a strong technical focus

Experience

Proven successful operational leadership experience in a comparable role (VP Engineering, Head of Product Development, or similar) at a VC-funded hardware and software / engineering scale-up operating in an international context
Ideally, you have worked for a company that you have already guided through at least one growth phase (Series A/B+) in a similar technical role
Proven experience of bringing technical products and solutions from scratch to market readiness, through all the ups and downs
Proficient in building complex products step by step
Experience in managing parallel product lines and teams with overlaps and interdependencies
Confident in technical communication with the engineering team, drawing on their own hands-on technical background
Understanding of modern engineering processes and scaled agile frameworks
Very good understanding of system integration (robotics, software, hardware, camera, sensors)

Leadership

Leadership experience as a ‘Leader of Leaders’ (Program Manager, Team Leads)
Distinctive servant leadership qualities: forward-thinking and entrepreneurial mindset, strong analytical skills, data-driven, operational view of the big picture, people-focused, excellent communicator bridging technical depth and management level

Personality

Agile engineering mindset and strong co-creator
Comfortable with ambiguity and the ability to drive priorities forward convincingly, even when everything seems equally important
Ability to prioritize clearly and make trade-off decisions in the face of uncertainty and resource constraints
Ownership at its highest level: taking end-to-end responsibility for results, not just for processes
Beginner's mindset and first-principles thinking
A recognized sparring partner for the CTO

You have been a founder in a relevant, successful start-up previously
Experience in the fields of autonomy, AI perception, computer vision, and sensor fusion
Experience in the defense or GovTech sector
Experience in building multi-site organizations

Willingness to work in Munich
Fluent in German and English
Citizenship of a NATO member country

Director of Engineering - Software, Hardware, Robotics (m/f/d) · Autonomous Teaming

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