Director

Director of Product Engineering (m/f/d) - Karlsruhe (DE) - PTV Group Director of Product Engineering (m/f/d), 1. image PTV Group. Empowering mobility as part of Umovity. You develop the people who build our products: Engineering Managers, engineers and QA. As part of the leadership team, you report to our Chief Product & Technology Officer and work closely with the leaders of Product Experience, Platform & Infrastructure and Data, as well as our Principal Architect. Our product teams in Germany, Poland, Italy and Spain work in autonomous squads. You strengthen the people and structures that help them succeed: through strong leadership, fair career paths, thoughtful hiring and a strong engineering culture. What you'll do - Coach our Engineering Managers as people leaders and squad owners, helping them build healthy, effective teams. - Lead the Product Engineering chapter for software engineering and QA, with a shared career ladder, clear hiring standards, and fair performance and promotion processes. - Build a shared engineering culture across our locations and support teams through change. - Make sure every squad has a clear quality bar and trains its engineers to meet it. The Principal Architect owns architecture and technical standards. - Embed the effective use of AI across the software development lifecycle, from training and career development to measurable impact. You'll work with the Staff Engineer, squads and Platform team. - Plan the development of the engineering organisation and ensure teams have the agreed capacity for maintenance, security and technical debt. Product priorities, squad delivery, architecture, AI standards, platform and data remain with the relevant product, squad and functional leaders. You'll work with them as a peer and resolve areas of overlap directly. What you bring to the team - At least 10 years of software engineering experience, including work on complex, computation-heavy software...