Senior Director, Product Engineering

JDPA LIMITED

Senior Director of Product Engineering leading software engineering at JD Power. Driving innovative, scalable, and secure products across multiple portfolios.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $225,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Leads the Product Engineering organization at JD Power.
Manages, levels, and develops the leadership bench across product portfolios.
Owns the hiring plan for Product Engineering and partners with Talent Acquisition on sourcing, leveling, and selection.
Sets performance expectations, manages out underperformance, and runs calibration across the organization.
Defines and communicates the org structure, role definitions, and career paths for engineers and engineering managers.
Establishes and enforces a consistent engineering operating model across portfolios.
Drives continuous improvement on DORA and other metrics for in-scope products.

Requirements

What you’ll need

15+ years in software engineering, with at least 8 years managing engineers and at least 5 years managing managers.
Direct experience leading an engineering organization of 75+ people, including a director or sr. director leadership bench.
Demonstrated turnaround / stabilization experience — has inherited an underperforming or destabilized engineering org and improved delivery, quality, and team health with quantifiable results.
Track record of shipping data and analytics products at scale — SaaS analytics, insights, data-heavy enterprise products, or similar.
Has built and enforced a consistent engineering operating model across multiple product lines or business units.
Strong executive presence; effective communicator with non-engineering stakeholders and executive peers.
Has hired, leveled, performance-managed, and exited director-level engineering leaders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

JD Power is committed to employing a diverse workforce.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringdata analyticsSaaSproduct managementperformance managementengineering operating modelquantifiable resultsteam healthdelivery improvementleadership development

Soft Skills

executive presenceeffective communicationleadershiporganizational developmentstakeholder managementteam managementperformance evaluationstrategic planningcollaborationproblem-solving