Senior Director - Product & Design Operations

About the role

The Senior Director of Product & Design Operations plays a crucial role in ensuring the product management and design operating models are implemented, scaled, and sustained at SimCorp. This role is essential for the continued growth and evolution of SimCorp's product organization.

Responsibilities

• Own implementation, configuration, and continuous evolution of SimCorp’s product management tooling ecosystem enabling end-to-end product management from strategy and discovery through delivery and communication.
• Ensure integration between product tools and downstream execution systems, preserving strategic context while enabling execution.
• Drive consistent, high-quality adoption through training, documentation, office hours, and direct support.
• Translate the Enterprise Product Management Playbook and Design Operating Model from as-designed into daily practice, implemented through shared tooling, rituals, workflows, and artifacts.
• Define and maintain the operational backbone in tools (templates, fields, workflows, dashboards, and reporting) that makes the operating model easy to execute and hard to drift from.
• Partner with Product and Design leadership to run consistent, tool-supported cadences across teams: planning and prioritization, roadmap/portfolio reviews, PDLC rituals, and launch readiness.
• Ensure high-quality, consistent artifacts are stored in the system of record (e.g., roadmaps, prioritization outputs, dependency views, design documentation) to enable cross-functional alignment and executive-ready visibility.
• Strengthen design operations in a way that supports creative excellence, including effective design critiques, design-to-engineering handoffs, and clear review criteria.
• Establish standards for product and design artifacts, and embed them into tooling via templates, definitions, required fields, and quality checks.
• Set up governance and decision forums with clear inputs/outputs and tool-based reporting, balancing team autonomy with enterprise alignment and scale.
• Instrument the operating model: monitor quality and adoption (e.g., completeness, consistency, timeliness) and continuously improve workflows based on real usage and outcomes.
• Lead change and adoption of tools, processes, and operating models through influence, enablement, and trust.
• Anticipate resistance and complexity; address it through clear communication, well-planned rollouts, and close partnership with teams.
• Measure adoption and effectiveness, iterating based on feedback and outcomes over rigid process adherence.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product ops, design ops, product management, or adjacent leadership roles in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated ability to implement product tooling and operating models across multiple teams or product lines.
• Extensive experience owning systems of record and the operational infrastructure (templates, workflows, dashboards, reporting) that enables consistent execution.
• Systems thinker who can connect people, process, and tooling, and translate it into scalable, day-to-day ways of working.
• Effective communicator who can align with Product, Design, Engineering, and senior leadership.
• Outcome-driven and pragmatic – builds standards that help teams work more efficiently without unnecessary process.
• Comfortable leading change and adoption through trust, clarity, and hands-on enablement.

Benefits

SimCorp offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Global hybrid policy allowing two days of in-office work per week and remote work on other days.
• Annual discretionary bonus.
• Health care, leave, and retirement plans.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $221,000-$331,000 USD.

Schedule

SimCorp operates globally with a hybrid work policy, allowing employees to work from the office two days each week while supporting remote work on other days.

Next Steps

Please send your application in English via our career site as soon as possible. Only applications sent through our system will be processed. Applicants are asked to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from their application. SimCorp is committed to a fair and inclusive hiring process and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals.