Director, Product Engineering

About the role

As Director, Product Engineering supporting Paragon TMS in Alpharetta, GA, you will lead product engineering for the transportation management software portfolio. You will set technical direction, develop engineering talent, and create an execution culture grounded in sound judgment, customer impact, and continuous improvement. You will partner with product and customer-facing teams to deliver reliable software capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Set engineering strategy, architecture direction, delivery standards, and priorities for Paragon TMS
• Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers and engineers
• Partner with product and customer-facing teams to understand customer problems
• Manage engineering capacity, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments
• Champion reliability, maintainability, technical excellence, and recurring-issue reduction

About you

You use data, customer evidence, and technical judgment to make decisions when requirements or constraints are not fully defined. You communicate progress, tradeoffs, risks, and decisions clearly to senior stakeholders and executive leadership. You build strong partnerships across global teams and contribute to engineering standards beyond your immediate product area.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Progressive experience leading software product engineering teams
• Experience with people leadership, technical strategy, and delivery ownership
• Experience partnering cross-functionally in a software or SaaS environment
• Strong communication, judgment, initiative, and execution discipline

To be ahead of the pack, you might have:

• Experience with transportation management, enterprise applications, cloud software, or supply chain technology
• Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams
• Background including a master’s degree

What’s in it for you?

Aptean offers competitive pay and robust benefit plans along with the opportunity to grow your career in a fast-paced, flexible and casual environment, an outstanding opportunity for career development and growth.