Director, Product and Engineering Operations
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Product Operations Director connecting strategy, planning, delivery, and launch at KNIME, an AI and data science platform. Driving portfolio cadence, risk management, and operational insights.
Responsibilities:
- Lead quarterly planning and release rhythms across the portfolio, ensuring teams align on priorities, capacity, and decision milestones
- Proactively identify, track, and resolve cross-team dependencies, risks, and blockers to ensure on-time delivery
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and GTM leaders to evaluate tradeoffs, sequence work, and shape roadmap priorities
- Define team rituals, documentation standards, and automated tooling/reporting to cut manual overhead and establish common practices
- Synthesize customer signals, product metrics, and delivery health data into actionable reporting that drives continuous improvement
- Serve as a trusted facilitator across product, engineering, and business partners
- Create a dependable planning and execution cadence and drive improvement in the way teams work
- Report directly to the VP Product and act as the operational counterpart to the VP Product and VP Engineering
- Start as an individual-contributor role, with potential to grow into people leadership as R&D capacity scales
Requirements:
- 10+ years in product operations, technical program management, delivery leadership, or related technology roles
- Proven experience running planning and release cycles across multiple teams or value streams (e.g., Release Train Engineer)
- Deep knowledge of Agile lifecycles and launch operations
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex dependencies, capacity planning, delivery risks, and cross-functional expectations
- Strong analytical skills using delivery metrics and dashboards to solve problems, optimize workflows, and improve operating models
- Exceptional facilitation and communication skills
- Proven ability to influence without authority across product, engineering, and business partners
- Passion for data science and analytics tools
- Fluent in English
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred
- German and relevant Agile/PMP certifications are a plus
Benefits:
- Equal opportunity employer
- Inclusive workplace where different perspectives come together and everyone feels included no matter their background
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