Director Product Engineering

Clean Harbors

$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience leading multiple software development teams
  • Strong background in Agile methodologies and practices
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with offshore teams effectively
  • Expertise in defining product strategies and roadmaps
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams in tech environments

Responsibilities

  • Lead software development teams to deliver innovative IT solutions
  • Collaborate with offshore engineering teams for product development
  • Drive adoption of Agile practices within the teams
  • Define and present product strategies and performance metrics
  • Partner with architecture, cyber security, and platform teams
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Director of Product Engineering (Platform Owner) ensures strategic alignment, governance, and delivery excellence for one or more enterprise technology platforms. Blending product-engineering leadership with formal Platformaccountability, this role drives platform vision, architecture decisions, stakeholder engagement, and quality outcomes while overseeing the full product lifecycle from concept to launch.

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Alignment & Vision• Define and sustain a clear platform vision aligned with corporate and business-unit strategy.
    • Prioritize and execute initiatives per Steering Committee (SteerCo) directives and ROI.Architecture & Technology Governance• Make informed architecture decisions; champion cloud-native, event-driven, and DevSecOps patterns.
    • Enforce enterprise architecture standards and best practices.Stakeholder Engagement• Own communications with SteerCo, senior business sponsors, and peer platform owners.
    • Serve as the primary escalation point for platform-related issues.Quality & Performance Assurance• Ensure deliverables meet schedule, quality, and performance targets (SLIs/SLOs).
    • Drive continuous improvement through metrics, retrospectives, and root-cause analysis.Delivery & Team Leadership• Lead multiple on-shore and off-shore software teams (managers & senior managers) delivering innovative technology solutions.
    • Mature Agile practices; leverage data for predictability, capacity planning, and cost management.
    • Coach and develop engineering and product managers, fostering a high-performance, inclusive culture.Product Strategy & Road-mapping• Define product strategies, OKRs, roadmaps, and success metrics; communicate progress to leadership.
    • Balance new features with technical debt remediation and platform health.Cross-Functional Collaboration• Partner with Architecture, Cyber Security, Data, and adjacent platform teams to align dependencies and integration patterns.
    • Coordinate release planning, change-management, and user-enablement activities.


Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, or related field.
  • 15 + years of progressive product-development experience, including 5-7 years leading multi-team engineering organizations.
  • Proven expertise in Agile delivery models and modern SDLC, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices.
  • Certifications: Agile Certified Professional (required); Certified Scrum Master (preferred); Certified Agile Leadership (preferred).
  • Hands-on familiarity with Azure, GitHub, DevOps pipelines, API design, DataOps, OpenAI/GenAI, Angular (or comparable front-end frameworks), and event-driven architectures.
  • Demonstrated success in setting platform vision, making architecture trade-offs, and engaging executive stakeholders.


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Clean Harbors is committed to complying with applicable pay transparency laws and ensuring fair and equitable compensation. The posted salary range reflects the minimum and maximum target for this role. Final compensation may vary based on factors such as location, experience, skills, and business needs. In addition to the base salary, some roles may be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.

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