At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead software product delivery and drive technology strategy in a dynamic engineering environment.
- Company: Join a growing, privately owned engineering-led business with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, share ownership, bonuses, pension, and generous holiday.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth in a fast-paced, hybrid work environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by launching innovative software products and leading high-performing teams.
- Qualifications: Experience as a CTO or similar role with strong technical and commercial skills.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
UK Based / Hybrid
70,000 - 80,000 + Share Ownership + Bonus + Pension + Holiday
Are you a commercially minded software leader with experience taking complex technical products from development through to customer-ready launch? Brilliant opportunity on offer to join a growing, privately owned engineering-led business where you will take full ownership of technology strategy, software product delivery and commercialisation while building and developing a high-performing engineering team.
In this role, you will be responsible for taking engineering-focused software products through the final stages of development and turning them into robust, scalable and saleable solutions. Working closely with engineers, customers and commercial stakeholders, you will improve delivery processes, accelerate time to market and help establish how the products are packaged and monetised.
This is an ideal role for a CTO, Technology Director, Software Engineering Director or Head of Engineering who combines strong technical capability with commercial acumen and can demonstrate experience finishing products, launching them successfully and generating measurable customer or commercial outcomes.
THE ROLE:
- Taking full ownership of technology strategy, product roadmaps and software delivery
- Driving technical products through to stable, customer-ready commercial release
- Building and leading software engineering and full-stack development teams
- Improving architecture, Agile delivery, cloud, DevOps, CI/CD and cybersecurity practices
- Translating customer requirements into valuable, scalable and saleable products
- Supporting SaaS, licensing, subscription and service-based revenue models
- Representing technology with customers, commercial partners and senior stakeholders
THE PERSON:
- Experience as a CTO, Technology Director, Software Engineering Director, Product Engineering Director or Head of Engineering
- Proven experience taking incomplete or early-stage technical products through to commercial launch
- Strong software engineering, architecture, cloud, DevOps and product delivery knowledge
- Commercial experience packaging, positioning or monetising software products
- Evidence of improving customer adoption, revenue, margin or time to market
- Experience building and leading multidisciplinary software development teams
- Engineering software, industrial technology or complex regulated-sector experience would be advantageous
- Relevant technical degree or equivalent professional experience
Locations
Technology Product Director - Engineering Software in Midlothian, Scotland employer: Rise Technical
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