Director - Product Engineering & Solutions Leader (Detroit)

About the role

At Slalom, we blend personal connection with global scale to transform how organizations redefine possibilities, shape the future, and achieve their goals. Our mission is to maximize the value of the technology and software our clients create through efficient, high-quality, and consistent service, incorporating AI tools and outcome-focused strategies across the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Align regional or country-wide Capability strategies with market needs by acting as a subject matter expert and thought leader.
• Collaborate closely with clients and industry partners to identify opportunities.
• Support and develop a go-to-market team, contribute to delivery through billable roles with specific utilization targets, and partner with leadership to achieve revenue goals and address capability challenges.
• Engage in billable client delivery roles, ensuring high-quality outcomes in product engineering and cloud modernization.
• Ignite awareness and demand for Product Engineering and Cloud offerings through campaigns, RFIs, RFPs, workshops, and POCs.
• Create demand by proactively seeking speaking opportunities within the geographic market as a Capability SME and thought leader at external conferences and events.
• Partners with client and sales leaders to identify technology-led opportunities, act as the Solution Lead or Subject Matter Expert during pursuits, and collaborate on growth projections, driving revenue performance against forecasts and identifying capability health challenges, aligning corrective actions as needed.
• Own the portfolio of sales and revenue for this capability within the market.
• Participate in hiring, staffing, and workforce planning rhythms for market and/or capability teams.
• Lead and develop teams through direct and indirect reporting relationships to scale go-to-market impact and provide performance feedback on Capability team members supporting pursuits and delivery.

Qualifications

• You possess deep technology delivery and leadership experience, with a passion for building teams and client partnerships.
• You are skilled as both a strategic leader and hands-on practitioner, with expertise in product engineering, cloud operations, AI-accelerated engineering, and large-scale delivery models.
• Your leadership is inspirational and proactive, with a strong emphasis on collaboration, growth, and market-focused strategic thinking.

Skills

• Cloud & Modern Operations: Experience with modern operations (SRE) and working with top partners like AWS, Microsoft, and Google to co-sell or deliver.
• Product Engineering: Extensive experience leading cross-discipline teams (Agile, Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, DevOps, and UX).
• Accelerated Engineering with AI: Deep understanding of how Generative AI is evolving the SDLC and maturing technology organizations.
• Team-Based Delivery at Scale: Experience delivering engineering projects using scale teaming models, including Nearshore and Offshore partners.
• Product Mindset: Ability to work with customers to shape product strategy, roadmaps, and outcome-based results.
• Inspirational Leadership: Forward-looking strategic thinking connected to market needs.
• Proactive GTM Mentality: A builder of relationships and pipeline who does not wait for leads to be handed to them.
• Collaboration: Strong ability to collaborate across different teams and global organizations.
• Growth Mindset: Acts as an external speaker at events and speaks to customer CXOs as a peer with credibility and confidence.

Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Pay

Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges: The targeted base salary pay range for Director is $220,000 to $269,000 and the targeted base salary pay range for Senior Principal is $193,000 to $236,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

Schedule

Commute to Detroit office required.