Associate Director - Robotics

GreyOrange seeks a talented and solutions-oriented Associate Director to support our Robotics portfolio. You will be a key player responsible for shaping our product roadmap and strategies, enabling GO to deliver on some of the largest robotics deployments on the planet.

In this role, you will be the key organizational lead for Robotics, responsible for leading a dynamic, multidisciplinary team of engineers (hardware, software, embedded systems) to design, build, and deliver end-to-end integrated automation solutions. You will lead strategic projects with a laser focus on customer delight and work across disciplines, managing technical resources, CAPEX, schedules, and 3P vendors.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Ability to lead in highly ambiguous spaces, making high-velocity decisions to develop scalable system-level solutions for different types of industries

• Foster a culture of inclusion.

• Demonstrate a high level of ownership by acting as the primary technical point of contact for all program needs.

• Prioritize key workstreams with internal and external stakeholders to deliver to our customer needs.

• Systems Level Design experience:

• Understand and evaluate technical concepts in-depth with technical leads & product managers

• Deep understanding of embedded systems & software development

• Working knowledge of cross-functional skill sets such as safety & compliance, good electrical & mechanical design practices

• Provide design for X guidance/feedback on electromechanical designs.

• Drive DFMEAs, PFMEAs, RCA, and corrective actions.

• Able to identify and analyze cross-functional tradeoffs between solution options (including hardware-software dependencies) to evaluate impact on KPIs, and risks to implementation such as technical complexity, cost, safety, reliability, etc.

• Facilitate requirements management, trade studies, and technical risk assessments across integrated system-of-systems using quantitative methods and first-principles analysis.

• Build effective mechanisms for communication between team members & internal/ external stakeholders through periodic reviews, addressing resource management with trade-offs, risks, and recommendations.

• Develop clear RACI to drive accountability of all stakeholders & contributors.

• Mentor team members in engineering best practices, and participate in hiring of new team members

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Requirements:

• 1 4+ years of experience in integration, deployment, and production support of complex robotics and other automated electromechanical systems in industrial settings

• Experience in all full lifecycle management of technical projects from requirements gathering, design, prototyping, and testing to final deployment and post-production support; managing tradeoffs with key decision makers at each stage

• Experience devising relevant KPI metrics, SMART goals setting, effective tracking & risk escalation mechanisms, review & resolve delivery blockers for key initiatives that could impact business.

• Establish org-level metrics to ensure alignment between org delivery goals & program-level / company-level goals.

• Establish best practices for engineering documentation, test procedures, voice of customer (VoC) feedback for internal/external customers, and tracking issues to resolution.

• Facilitate effective interactions with internal and external stakeholders

• Support mentoring, learning & development opportunities for team members

• Able to travel to different customer sites in North America and Europe