Product Development Excellence Director

Agilent Technologies

. Accelerate the Product Lifecycle (PLC) across the organization by driving a single enterprise-wide best-practices with standardized frameworks and governance.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $175,440 - $328,950 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Accelerate the Product Lifecycle (PLC) across the organization by driving a single enterprise-wide best-practices with standardized frameworks and governance.
Lead training, coaching, and change management to ensure adoption across all business groups.
Use KPIs and analytics to monitor performance and drive continuous improvement.
Manage and modernize the end-to-end digital development tool chain and ensure enterprise.
Evaluate, deploy, and integrate common tools that enhance productivity and process efficiency.
Provide training and best-practice guidance to ensure consistent, effective tool usage.
Establish an engineering development program to foster innovation and talent acquisition to facilitate business unit product development success and next generation of Agilent innovators.
Drive engineering initiatives to optimize development costs, architectural design deployment, accelerate time-to-market and effective transfer into manufacturing.
Optimize processes for supply chain stability and continued post-market production.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor of Science in engineering discipline
Master's degree or PhD preferred
At least 10 years of growing responsibility in R&D technical engineering roles or a PhD in a relevant engineering discipline with 5 years of industry experience
Minimum of 5 years experience formally or informally leading people, projects and/or programs
Demonstrated track record of leadership and delivering results
Experience working with globally distributed teams
Experience building organizational capability through coaching, training, governance, and continuous improvement.
Demonstrated success in cross-functional collaboration, influencing senior leaders, and driving alignment across diverse business groups.
Strategic thinking and system-level problem solving
Operational excellence and continuous improvement mindset
Strong communication, facilitation, and leadership presence
Ability to drive change in a distributed, multi-business group environment
Collaboration, relationship-building, and stakeholder influence
Technical depth and credibility with engineering organizations

Benefits

Comp & perks

Bonus
Stock options

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Hard Skills & Tools

engineeringproduct lifecycle managementdigital development tool chainKPI analysisanalyticsprocess optimizationchange managementgovernancecontinuous improvementarchitectural design

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingtrainingstrategic thinkingsystem-level problem solvingcommunicationfacilitationcollaborationrelationship-buildingstakeholder influence

Certifications

Bachelor of Science in engineeringMaster's degreePhD