Director, Product and Engineering Operations

• Lead quarterly planning and release rhythms across the portfolio, ensuring teams align on priorities, capacity, and decision milestones
• Proactively identify, track, and resolve cross-team dependencies, risks, and blockers to ensure on-time delivery
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and GTM leaders to evaluate tradeoffs, sequence work, and shape roadmap priorities
• Define team rituals, documentation standards, and automated tooling/reporting to cut manual overhead and establish common practices
• Synthesize customer signals, product metrics, and delivery health data into actionable reporting that drives continuous improvement
• Serve as a trusted facilitator across product, engineering, and business partners
• Create a dependable planning and execution cadence and drive improvement in the way teams work
• Report directly to the VP Product and act as the operational counterpart to the VP Product and VP Engineering
• Start as an individual-contributor role, with potential to grow into people leadership as R&D capacity scales

• 10+ years in product operations, technical program management, delivery leadership, or related technology roles
• Proven experience running planning and release cycles across multiple teams or value streams (e.g., Release Train Engineer)
• Deep knowledge of Agile lifecycles and launch operations
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex dependencies, capacity planning, delivery risks, and cross-functional expectations
• Strong analytical skills using delivery metrics and dashboards to solve problems, optimize workflows, and improve operating models
• Exceptional facilitation and communication skills
• Proven ability to influence without authority across product, engineering, and business partners
• Passion for data science and analytics tools
• Fluent in English
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred
• German and relevant Agile/PMP certifications are a plus

• Equal opportunity employer
• Inclusive workplace where different perspectives come together and everyone feels included no matter their background