Managing Director India Operations
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Posted on:
6 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Managing Director (MD) India Operations leads the India operations of UEI. The role is focused on building and scaling high-performance product and engineering teams driving innovation ensuring strong governance and aligning Indias product development capabilities with the companys global product strategy. This is a product-centric leadership role with full responsibility for operational oversight talent strategy regulatory compliance and financial performance of the Indian entity.
Responsibilities:
The duties listed below are intended only as examples of the various types of work that you may be asked to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar related or a logical assignment to this class. You may be asked to perform other duties as assigned from time to time.
- Strategic Leadership
- Define and execute Indias strategy as a part of Global product development organization.
- Align engineering and project roadmaps with global business priorities.
- Drive long-term capability building in areas such as platform architecture AI/ML cloud-native systems and product scalability.
- Provide strategic insights on technology trends talent markets and innovation opportunities in India.
- Product & Engineering Leadership
- Oversee end-to-end project development lifecycle.
- Ensure high standards of architecture scalability performance and reliability.
- Drive technical excellence code quality and secure development practices.
- Collaborate with global Product/Project Management to translate business needs into execution.
- Innovation & Technology Direction
- Build India as a center of excellence for product development.
- Sponsor R&D initiatives and emerging technology exploration.
- Strengthen platform capabilities cloud optimization and product modernization.
- Encourage IP creation patents and differentiated product capabilities.
- Financial & Operational Management
- Own India entity financial performance
- Develop and manage annual budgets and operating plans.
- Ensure cost optimization without compromising on productivity and product quality.
- Align financial reporting with US parent company requirements.
- Ensure Governance & Regulatory Compliance w.r.t financial and labor compliances.
- Oversee statutory audits filings and board governance processes.
- Act as Director on the Board of the Indian subsidiary.
- Oversight of all other support functions to ensure business continuity.
- Talent & Culture Leadership
- Build and retain high-caliber engineering and product leadership.
- Develop succession plans and leadership bench strength.
- Foster a product-driven innovation-first culture.
- Ensure alignment with global corporate values compliance and performance standards.
- Promote diversity inclusion and ethical conduct.
- Cross-Border Alignment
- Serve as primary liaison between India operations and other UEI locations including US headquarters.
- Ensure consistent execution of global product strategy.
- Maintain transparency in performance reporting and risk management.
- Drive strong collaboration across distributed global teams.
- Make In India Initiative
- Provide local management oversight to Make in India projects.
- Help with identifying and developing local suppliers and relationship building with R&D teams of the customer.
Supervisory Responsibilities List Teams/Groups
- Responsible for directly managing SQA (SW development process definition and compliance team) IVV (Independent testing team) and Advance Tech (Platform development team).
- Responsible for directly managing China SW team providing support for dedicated preset and Aircon RCU SW development. Also providing support for production programming setup.
- Responsible for Japan outsource SW development team to support projects in Japan (Daikin Mitsubishi). This team also provides design review support with customers in Japan.
- Responsible for oversight to Data Management QS Cloud and QS SDK teams.
- Dotted line oversight responsibility to corporate support teams (HR/Safety Finance/Accounting IT and Facilities)
Qualification / skills:
Qualifications - Knowledge & Experience
- 15 years of overall experience with 7 years of technical management and people management with 5-7 years in senior leadership roles managing large engineering organizations including operations and budget management.
- Proven experience scaling and managing Embedded software products development process definition and compliance and aligning with industry trends.
- Good understanding of cloud infrastructure platform engineering and secure development.
- Ability to advise others and manage divergent interests and perspectives.
- Experience working in a global cross-border product organization.
- Strong product and platform mindset
- Deep engineering credibility
- Strategic and systems thinking
- Financial discipline
- Governance orientation
- High integrity and accountability
- Ability to scale teams and manage complexity
- Ability to create plans to align technical issues with business strategy.
- Advanced people management skills.
Education Licenses & Certification
- BE/BTech/MTech/MS in ECE/EEE/Telecom/Computer Science.
- MBA will be desirable.
Work Conditions:
- 40-hours plus per week based on demands of the role
- Physically able to participate in training sessions presentations and meetings.
- Sitting for extended periods of time; Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard mouse etc.
- Travel domestic or international as needed.
Required Experience:
Director
About Company
Universal Electronics designs, develops and manufactures innovative smart home products and smart home solutions like smart thermostats, remote controls, HVAC specifics, hospitality specifics. Contributing to a sustainable future.
