Director – Software Platform Delivery

About the role

The Director, Software Platform Delivery – Autonomy is responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of software platform capabilities that enable autonomous driving functions and services. The role owns execution across multiple cross-functional development teams, ensuring predictable delivery, quality, scalability, and organizational alignment. The Director serves as the primary delivery leader for complex software platform programs, balancing business priorities, technical dependencies, engineering capacity, and product commitments. While highly technical, the role focuses primarily on delivery excellence, execution governance, stakeholder management, and building high-performing teams rather than defining architecture. This is a non-executive leadership position reporting to a Senior Director or Head of Engineering Delivery within the Autonomy organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of software platform releases supporting autonomous driving products and capabilities.
• Own planning, execution, integration, and release readiness across multiple engineering teams.
• Drive program execution against agreed milestones, quality targets, and business commitments.
• Ensure alignment between platform roadmaps and autonomy product requirements.
• Manage delivery risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation plans across the organization.
• Establish delivery governance mechanisms and ensure consistency across programs.
• Coordinate activities across software engineering, systems engineering, validation, product management, architecture, and operations teams.
• Drive resolution of technical and organizational impediments impacting program execution.
• Ensure effective prioritization and dependency management across multiple workstreams.
• Lead operational reviews and program steering discussions with senior leadership.
• Provide regular delivery status, forecasts, and executive-level communications.
• Lead and develop engineering managers, program managers, and delivery leaders.
• Build a high-performance culture focused on accountability, ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Support talent development, succession planning, and organizational growth.
• Foster collaboration across geographically distributed teams.
• Define and implement software delivery best practices, metrics, and operational rhythms.