Senior Director Of Engineering (Product Development) in Manchester

The people at UiPath believe in the transformative power of automation to change how the world works. We’re committed to creating category-leading enterprise software that unleashes that power. To make that happen, we need people who are curious, self-propelled, generous, and genuine. People who love being part of a fast-moving, fast-thinking growth company. And people who care—about each other, about UiPath, and about our larger purpose.

Your mission: UiPath Supply Chain and Retail team (Peak) is looking for a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead the development of ML first multi-tenant products and agentic solutions. Our vision is to rethink and rearchitect manufacturing and retail business processes using data-driven predictions, decision and intelligent automation.

In this role, you will manage multi-disciplinary engineer squads and engineering managers. You will collaborate with other members of our product and professional services team, including product managers, applied scientists and forward deployed scientists/engineers to build and deploy scalable solutions that transform and establish our commitment to deliver business impact to our customers.

What you’ll do at UiPath:

• Team Management & Organizational Development: Build, mentor, and scale a world-class multidisciplinary engineering team of 75 engineers, applied scientists, fostering a culture of innovation, customer obsession, and technical excellence. Collaborate effectively across multiple vertically aligned engineering teams (Product and Forward Deployed Engineers), product managers and solutions architects for successful development and adoption of the product and solutions that you manage. Partner closely with Forward Deployment Engineers, Solution Engineers, and Account Managers to understand customer challenges and translate them into scalable engineering solutions. Work closely with the People and Talent team to attract, recruit and retain top talent fully aligned with Peak product vision.
• Product & Technical Execution: Oversee the end-to-end development lifecycle of agentic solutions, AI agents, and ML products in the domain of pricing and inventory management. Drive the adoption and effective use of leading agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and similar AI development agents) across engineering squads to modernize workflows, boost productivity, and elevate code quality. Establish engineering best practices for AI model deployment as part of software, system reliability, and operational excellence while ensuring compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory standards. Take lead on analyzing complex technical issues, technology choices and communicate them with the team and stakeholders in both written and verbal manner to drive consensus. Incubate new ideas and create a roadmap for your areas of focus. Accountable for the software deliverables to meet all requirements of quality, security scalability, extensibility and testability. Continuously improve engineering practices and dev inner loop in the team to increase quality, velocity, and productivity.

What you’ll bring to the team:

• Proven track record (10+ years’ experience) of architecting and hands-on engineering world-class commercial applications.
• Proven track record of architecting and developing ML or Agentic commercial products (not platform).
• Experienced architecting scalable multi-tenant architecture on cloud using container orchestration with vanilla or Kubernetes-based solutions.
• Ability to work with a globally distributed team.
• Ability to work closely with customers to develop initial POC and convert POCs to Product when needed.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language and strong software fundamentals.
• Proficiency in at least one area of AI (Preferably in LLM/NLP or Classical ML).

Maybe you don’t tick all the boxes above—but still think you’d be great for the job? Go ahead, apply anyway. Please. Because we know that experience comes in all shapes and sizes—and passion can’t be learned.

Many of our roles allow for flexibility in when and where work gets done. Depending on the needs of the business and the role, the number of hybrid, office-based, and remote workers will vary from team to team. Applications are assessed on a rolling basis and there is no fixed deadline for this requisition. The application window may change depending on the volume of applications received or may close immediately if a qualified candidate is selected.

We value a range of diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas. We pride ourselves on our diversity and inclusive workplace that provides equal opportunities to all persons regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression, national origin, disability, neurodiversity, military and/or veteran status, or any other protected classes. Additionally, UiPath provides reasonable accommodations for candidates on request and respects applicants' privacy rights.