Engineering Leader Digital+

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Your Role

Were looking for an Engineering Leader to shape how we design build and deliver digital experiences across Pregnancy the worlds most trusted pregnancy app. Youll report directly to the Business Leader for Worry-Free Parenting playing a pivotal role in aligning engineering product and design functions to accelerate value delivery for millions of users worldwide. Youll lead a distributed engineering organisation primarily based in India while working closely with leadership and product teams in Europe. Your focus will be on creating the right environment for high-quality high-velocity development defining how we operate today envisioning how we need to operate tomorrow and driving that transformation through process tooling and measurement. Youll champion AI-enabled engineering ensuring we leverage modern technologies to dramatically increase efficiency and consistency across releases.

What Youll Do:

• Lead and empower a distributed engineering organisation

• Lead an engineering organisation primarily based in India ensuring delivery excellence and strong alignment with leadership in Europe.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Management and Design teams to maintain synergy across disciplines reducing time-to-market and increasing value-to-market.
• Evaluate and evolve engineering processes tools and practices to improve speed quality and scalability.
• Establish and monitor clear KPIs and delivery metrics that measure performance predictability and quality.
• Drive organisational change through influence and structure embedding best practices and accountability across teams.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to foster engagement alignment and consistent delivery outcomes.
• Identify and implement modern tools and frameworks that enhance delivery pipelines testing and release management.
• Champion the integration of AI and automation to optimise workflows and increase developer productivity.
• Foster a culture of transparency ownership and continuous improvement across the engineering organisation.

What Were Looking For:

• At least 5 years of experience managing or leading engineering teams ideally within consumer digital or mobile products.
• Strong understanding of mobile development principles architecture CI/CD and operational excellence.
• Proven track record of leading engineering transformation and improving organisational efficiency.
• Experience managing distributed or remote teams ideally across time zones.
• Demonstrated ability to work within a product-led organisation collaborating closely with Product and Design to deliver user value.
• Ability to define and monitor KPIs that connect engineering outcomes to business results.
• Enthusiasm for AI-enabled engineering automation and continuous improvement.
• Exceptional communication stakeholder management and leadership skills.
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira GitHub Firebase and modern mobile CI/CD frameworks.

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the companys facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the companys main facilities generally at the customers or suppliers locations.
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About Philips
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If youre interested in this role and have many but not all of the experiences needed we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.