Operating as the leadership anchor for the tools team, the role promotes modern software development practices, strong product and engineering discipline, and the practical application of AI to improve development velocity, quality, and user outcomes. This leader partners across program leadership, application leads, business stakeholders, and technical experts to translate priorities into scalable platforms, usable applications, governed data foundations, and reliable release and deployment processes.We offer:
Career Development
Competitive Compensation and Benefits
Pay Transparency
Global Opportunities
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The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $185,250 to $284,050 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.
Tasks and Qualifications:Critical Behaviors and Capabilities:
Innovation mindset with a bias toward improving how work gets done, identifying opportunities to modernize processes, and advancing digital tool capabilities that create measurable business value
Creative problem solving with the ability to navigate ambiguity, break down complex challenges, and develop practical, scalable solutions across technical and business constraints
Strong ability to work across a cross-functional organization, build alignment among diverse stakeholders, and influence decisions without relying solely on direct authority
Proven track record of change leadership, including guiding teams through new ways of working, driving adoption, and sustaining momentum through transformation
Accountabilities:
Lead and develop a multidisciplinary tools organization spanning software developers, UX developers and designers, tools application developers, enterprise data architecture, data ontology resources, and deployment/testing roles.
Define and execute the tools team operating model, engineering standards, and delivery practices needed to build scalable, secure, maintainable, and user-centered applications and data capabilities.
Promote modern software development practices including agile planning, code quality disciplines, automation, testing, DevOps-oriented release practices, and disciplined lifecycle management.
Identify and incorporate AI capabilities where appropriate to improve productivity, user experience, engineering effectiveness, and the overall value of the tools portfolio.
Partner with program leads, application leaders, business stakeholders, and technical experts to translate strategic priorities into roadmaps, staffing plans, delivery milestones, and measurable outcomes.
Establish strong collaboration between software engineering, UX, application development, data architecture, and deployment/testing functions so solutions are integrated, usable, and production-ready.
Build a high-performing team culture through coaching, talent development, role clarity, hiring support, performance expectations, and continuous improvement in how the team works together.
Provide transparent status, risk, resource, and capability updates to leadership, while proactively removing blockers and ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, governance, security, and business priorities.
Required Competencies, Experience and Qualifications:
Proven experience leading multidisciplinary software or digital product teams, including engineering, UX, application development, and deployment-oriented functions
Strong understanding of modern software development practices, including agile delivery, architecture collaboration, testing, release management, and continuous improvement
Demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams through coaching, talent development, organizational design, and effective leadership in a matrix environment
Experience working across software, data, and user experience disciplines, with an appreciation for enterprise data architecture, semantic/ontology concepts, and production deployment considerations
Ability to identify and apply AI opportunities responsibly and pragmatically to improve team productivity, product capabilities, and user outcomes
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills, including the ability to align technical direction with business priorities and enterprise constraints
Skills Required
- Proven experience leading multidisciplinary software or digital product teams, including engineering, UX, application development, and deployment-oriented functions
- Strong understanding of modern software development practices, including agile delivery, architecture collaboration, testing, release management, and continuous improvement
- Demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams through coaching, talent development, organizational design, and effective leadership in a matrix environment
- Experience working across software, data, and user experience disciplines, including enterprise data architecture, semantic or ontology concepts, and production deployment considerations
- Ability to identify and apply AI opportunities responsibly and pragmatically to improve team productivity, product capabilities, and user outcomes
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills, including aligning technical direction with business priorities and enterprise constraints
What We Do
Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries. We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers. Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry. With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis. No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally. Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales
