Director of Electrical Engineering - Des Moines, United States - The Wittern Group

Description

Responsibilities
Create a strong, motivated culture where the team understands the importance of continuous and rapid testing and learning
Develop market analysis including trends and competitive threats
Develop channels, processes and tools to continuously funnel customer feedback to improve our offerings in a practical and timely fashion
Work with stakeholders to guide the release or launch of new innovations
Facilitate the strategic decisions about technology, definition, implementation and releasable deliverables for projects and initiatives

Facilitate, anticipate, analyze and challenge product requirements and feature functionality against product technology capabilities in order to discover, plan and mitigate project risk using root cause analysis.

Demonstrates attention to detail and accuracy.

Coach engineering best practices, development standards, and team norms to improve productivity, velocity, predictability and quality while retaining an entrepreneurial and collaborative culture.

Manage software development related relationships across the organization to manage expectations and making sure everyone understands solutions to problems and goals of initiatives and the department.

Provide documentation and training of duties to new staff and related groups.

Requirements

Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering preferred
Minimum of 5-10 years' experience innovating and developing new products and services, including commercialized, multi-tenant SaaS products
Experienced P&L owner adept at defining the overall vision, strategy, & roadmap for a software intensive business with a combination of SW enabled services and SaaS products
Experience with modern development methodologies (Agile, Kanban, XP )
Demonstrated technical and business aptitude that allows you to understand, translate, and guide discussions and decisions at a strategic enterprise level as well as at a detailed execution level
Passion for creating new products that drive significant value for our clients
Experience managing and protecting intellectual property
Comfortable building and leading relationships with key customers
Highly collaborative with the ability to influence and work with many internal stakeholders
Strong problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey detailed and complicated messages to varied audiences, including the ability to communicate technically and non-technically with ability to translate between the two

Technical Skills
IoT (high proficiency)
Agile methodology (high proficiency)
Knowledge management (high proficiency)
Business Planning (medium proficiency)
Project management (high proficiency)
Big Data Analytics (medium proficiency)
Cloud computing (medium proficiency)
Cybersecurity (medium proficiency)

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