Senior Director of Agility and Program Management
Senior Director of Agility and Program Management
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Overview
We are seeking our new Senior Director of Agility and Program management to join the Axway team!
The new Director of Agility and Program Management R&D Operations will lead and transform how we execute largescale R&D initiatives across multiple product lines engineering teams and global locations. This role is for a strategic resultsoriented leader with a deep understanding of agile methodologies operational excellence and program management at scale.
As a champion of agility and continuous improvement you will be responsible for ensuring that our R&D teams operate with efficiency transparency and adaptabilityembedding agile best practices leveraging datadriven decisionmaking and optimizing crossfunctional collaboration across diverse teams cultures and time zones.
Responsibilities
- Drive strategic program ensuring that complex R&D initiatives are delivered efficiently across multiple teams and geographies.
- Champion agility at scale embedding agile principles across the organization and ensuring teams can adapt to changing priorities without sacrificing velocity or quality.
- Optimize R&D operations implementing lean scalable processes that improve efficiency and enable innovation.
- Develop and track key performance metrics using datadriven insights to drive continuous improvement and decisionmaking.
- Lead cultural transformation fostering a mindset of collaboration experimentation and iterative learning.
- Partner closely with engineering product and business leaders to drive alignment prioritize work and remove operational bottlenecks.
- Facilitate executivelevel communication ensuring transparency on program status risks and opportunities.
- Mentor and coach teams upskilling leaders in agile best practices and fostering a highperformance culture across R&D operations.
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks ensuring that programs stay on track meet business objectives and deliver measurable impact.
Qualifications
- Extensive experience in program management and agile leadership with a track record of leading largescale R&D or engineering initiatives.
- Deep expertise in agile methodologies (Scrum Kanban SAFe LeSS or other agileatscale frameworks).
- Strong technical background in software engineering AI or related fields with the ability to bridge technical and business priorities.
- Proven experience leading distributed crossfunctional teams across multiple time zones and cultures.
- Datadriven mindset with experience defining and tracking OKRs KPIs and performance metrics to drive continuous improvement.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels from engineering teams to executive leadership.
- Experience in transforming organizations to be more agile efficient and customercentric.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in AI ERP Sofware/SaaS or R&D environments.
- Background in engineering leadership technical operations or enterprise program management.
- Expertise in scaling agile practices in complex matrixed organizations.
- Strong understanding of lean portfolio management and outcomedriven .
Why Join Us
This is a highimpact leadership role where you will drive transformational change in R&D operations. Youll work across a highcalibre team of engineers researchers and business leaders to shape how we execute scale and optimize innovation globally. If you thrive in complex environments love driving agility at scale and are passionate about continuous improvement wed love to hear from you.
Company Overview
At Axway were more than a companywere a pioneer. For 25 years weve been empowering organizations to achieve digital transformation and unlock innovation. With a presence in 100 countries 11000 customers and a global team of over 1400 passionate professionals Axway is driving the future of enterprise integration.
Were on a mission to be the leaderin our space empowering our customers withsecure missioncritical softwareto manage and deliver impactful business outcomes from all theirdigital business interactions.
Why Axway
We believe in the power of togetherness. When youre part of Axway youre part of a culturally rich and globally connected community that thrives on exchanging ideas and tackling challenges headon. Whether working remotely or onsite youll find camaraderie collaboration and the support of leadership to inspire you daily.
Here youll grow innovate and succeed because were better together. Each step forward in your personal journey is one we take as a team. Join us and lets accomplish extraordinary things together.
Axway is a proud member of 74Software. Learn more about how Axway is transforming the future: to shape the future Lets get startedbecause at Axway together we can. Together we will.
Axway is an AA and EEO employer
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Employment Type
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