Job SummaryDo you thrive in leading the senior technical talent that shapes what shows up in millions of customers' homes? As Senior Director, CPE Enablement Architecture at Spectrum, you'll lead a team of Principal Architects and Engineers driving new product introduction and reliability improvements across DOCSIS, PON, and WiFi customer premises equipment. You'll own the operating rhythm of the team - people development, portfolio visibility, and cross-organizational delivery - and represent CPE Enablement in the rooms where Spectrum's high-speed data product direction is formed. Every day, your leadership will determine how quickly new CPE technology reaches customers and how well it performs once it's there.
This is a leadership role, not a technical contributor role. The team already holds deep domain expertise. Your job is to lead them, keep complex work moving across a demanding organizational landscape, and make sure their output lands - in delivery teams, in product roadmaps, and in customers' hands.
ResponsibilitiesHow You'll Make an Impact - Lead and develop a team of 10+ Principal Architects and Engineers (levels I-III) - 1:1s, goal setting, performance calibration, and active career development for veteran senior individual contributors
- Own the New Product Introduction pipeline end to end across DOCSIS, PON, and WiFi CPE: vendor engagement, design readiness, lab validation coordination, and handoff quality
- Maintain real-time awareness of every active NPI and reliability workstream, advancing projects from design through delivery-team handoff on schedule and without surprises
- Serve as the accountable partner between CPE Enablement and executive leadership, delivery teams, partner engineering, product, and software development organizations - removing friction at org boundaries rather than escalating it
- Partner with Portfolio Management to keep priorities aligned to current technical realities, emerging risk, and delivery capacity, surfacing conflicts before they become escalations
- Advise executive leadership on CPE technology direction, product strategy, and reliability investment, translating complex technical work into clear, prioritized, decision-ready narratives
- Partner with Product in structured ideation sessions to shape the next generation of CPE products, bringing the team's technical insight forward into product strategy
- Direct quality standards for design documentation and handoff, ensuring delivery teams receive work that is complete, well-communicated, and ready to execute
- Manage the team's operating and capital budget and execute approved financial plans
- Lead succession planning and contribute to the growth of the broader CPE engineering organization
Working Conditions - Office environment
- Varying schedules within a 24 x 7 network operations setting
- Exposure to moderate noise levels
- Travel required
QualificationsWhat You'll Bring to Spectrum Required Qualifications Education - Master's degree in engineering or related field or equivalent experience
Experience - 9+ years of management experience
- 12+ years of engineering or network operations experience
- 5+ years of project management experience
Skills - Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
- Advanced knowledge of customer premises equipment and access network technologies - DOCSIS, PON, WiFi, and IP networks
- Experience leading Principal or Staff-level technical professionals, including performance calibration and development of senior individual contributors
- Experience taking hardware or software products from design through field delivery, including vendor engagement, lab validation, and cross-team handoff
- Effective multitasking and management of concurrent projects and competing priorities
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving under pressure
- Supervisory and motivational skills
- Proficiency with personal computers and standard business software
Preferred Qualifications- WiFi domain depth: 802.11ax/be standards, ecosystem platforms (OpenSync, Plume, RDK-B), or large-scale WiFi deployment experience
- Software architecture background across complex systems - embedded, firmware, cloud-managed CPE, or network software
- MSO or cable industry experience, including network architecture, provisioning, or service delivery
- Experience managing technical relationships with CPE manufacturers, chipset vendors, or platform partners through product development cycles
- Participation in standards or ecosystem bodies - CableLabs, Wi-Fi Alliance, IEEE 802.11, or similar
- Applied AI in engineering workflows: demonstrated use of AI tooling, including large language models, integrated into existing platforms and toolchains to reduce manual effort, compress analysis cycles, and extend the output of a small senior team.
- Candidates should be prepared to discuss specific implementations and the concrete benefit each delivered.
Education- Industry and vendor-specific certifications and training (Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, NCTI, SCTE, BCT/E)
Skills- Advanced knowledge of Spectrum's products and services
