Associate Director - Robotics

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Ability to lead in highly ambiguous spaces, making high-velocity decisions to develop scalable system-level solutions for different types of industries
• Foster a culture of inclusion.
• Demonstrate a high level of ownership by acting as the primary technical point of contact for all program needs.
• Prioritize key workstreams with internal and external stakeholders to deliver to our customer needs.
• Systems Level Design experience:
• Understand and evaluate technical concepts in-depth with technical leads & product managers
• Deep understanding of embedded systems & software development
• Working knowledge of cross-functional skill sets such as safety & compliance, good electrical & mechanical design practices
• Provide design for X guidance/feedback on electromechanical designs.
• Drive DFMEAs, PFMEAs, RCA, and corrective actions.
• Able to identify and analyze cross-functional tradeoffs between solution options (including hardware-software dependencies) to evaluate impact on KPIs, and risks to implementation such as technical complexity, cost, safety, reliability, etc.
• Facilitate requirements management, trade studies, and technical risk assessments across integrated system-of-systems using quantitative methods and first-principles analysis.
• Build effective mechanisms for communication between team members & internal/ external stakeholders through periodic reviews, addressing resource management with trade-offs, risks, and recommendations.
• Develop clear RACI to drive accountability of all stakeholders & contributors.
• Mentor team members in engineering best practices, and participate in hiring of new team members
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Requirements:

• 1 4+ years of experience in integration, deployment, and production support of complex robotics and other automated electromechanical systems in industrial settings
• Experience in all full lifecycle management of technical projects from requirements gathering, design, prototyping, and testing to final deployment and post-production support; managing tradeoffs with key decision makers at each stage
• Experience devising relevant KPI metrics, SMART goals setting, effective tracking & risk escalation mechanisms, review & resolve delivery blockers for key initiatives that could impact business.
• Establish org-level metrics to ensure alignment between org delivery goals & program-level / company-level goals.
• Establish best practices for engineering documentation, test procedures, voice of customer (VoC) feedback for internal/external customers, and tracking issues to resolution.
• Facilitate effective interactions with internal and external stakeholders
• Support mentoring, learning & development opportunities for team members
• Able to travel to different customer sites in North America and Europe