Applications Manager

Jobtailor; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 100.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Jobtailor is seeking a dynamic Deployment Lead to guide a multinational field team delivering end-to-end factory deployments across multiple sites. You will own deployment schedules, staffing, readiness, execution, and stabilization, while driving continuous improvement and customer handoff.

You will build repeatable deployment playbooks, manage scope, and mentor engineers and technicians. Regular travel (70%+) to Asia and Europe will be required to support high-tempo manufacturing environments.

Qualifikationen

• Fluent Mandarin and strong English, written and spoken.
• Proven track record leading complex, multi-site deployments in manufacturing.
• Strong program/project management ability; manage multiple workstreams.
• Experience leading teams including hiring, training and performance management.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management from shop floor to executives.
• Willingness to travel 70%+.
• Experience in EMS, automotive, battery or electronics manufacturing preferred.
• Familiarity with AI inspection, machine vision or automation deployments preferred.
• Navigate ambiguity and shifting constraints without losing momentum.

Aufgaben

• Lead a team of applications engineers and technicians to deliver end-to-end factory deployments.
• Own deployment schedules, staffing, readiness, execution, and stabilization across multiple factories and production lines.
• Drive stable inspections, acceptance criteria completion, and handoff to customer operations.
• Build repeatable deployment playbooks that reduce time-to-production and increase customer self-sufficiency.
• Hire, train, coach, and manage a high-performance field team across regions.
• Establish execution standards, operating cadences, escalation paths, documentation, and quality bars.
• Lead customer stakeholders across process, quality, automation, and factory management.
• Manage scope, prevent scope creep, align customer resources, and maintain deployment momentum.
• Create onboarding and training frameworks, checklists, commissioning templates, project dashboards, post-mortems, and continuous-improvement processes.
• Track deployment cycle time, blockers, time-to-stability, acceptance rate, and expansion readiness.
• Translate field issues into product improvements involving diagnostics, workflows, installation standards, tooling, documentation, and self-service capabilities.
• Collaborate with global engineering and product teams to remove recurring deployment friction.

Kenntnisse

Mandarin fluency

Program management

Team leadership

Multi-site deployments

Stakeholder management

Tools

Project dashboards

Commissioning templates

Continuous-improvement

Jobbeschreibung

• Lead a team of applications engineers and technicians to deliver end-to-end factory deployments
• Own deployment schedules, staffing, readiness, execution, and stabilization across multiple factories and production lines
• Drive stable inspections, acceptance criteria completion, and handoff to customer operations
• Build repeatable deployment playbooks that reduce time-to-production and increase customer self-sufficiency
• Hire, train, coach, and manage a high-performance field team across regions
• Establish execution standards, operating cadences, escalation paths, documentation, and quality bars
• Lead customer stakeholders across process, quality, automation, and factory management
• Manage scope, prevent scope creep, align customer resources, and maintain deployment momentum
• Create onboarding and training frameworks, checklists, commissioning templates, project dashboards, post-mortems, and continuous-improvement processes
• Track deployment cycle time, blockers, time-to-stability, acceptance rate, and expansion readiness
• Translate field issues into product improvements involving diagnostics, workflows, installation standards, tooling, documentation, and self-service capabilities
• Collaborate with global engineering and product teams to remove recurring deployment friction

Requirements

• Fluent Mandarin and strong English, written and spoken
• Proven track record leading complex, multi-site technical deployments in manufacturing environments
• Strong program/project management ability; ability to run multiple workstreams, prioritize ruthlessly, and keep people aligned
• Experience leading teams, including hiring, training, performance management, and developing strong individual contributors
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management from factory floor to customer executives and global teams
• High ownership, high discipline, and high energy
• Ability to travel regularly to Shanghai, Shenzhen, Nantong, and possibly Vietnam and Malaysia
• Travel frequency of 70% or above
• Strongly preferred: experience in high-tempo EMS, automotive, battery, or electronics manufacturing environments
• Strongly preferred: familiarity with AI inspection, machine vision, or automation deployments
• Strongly preferred: ability to navigate ambiguity, incomplete information, and shifting constraints without losing momentum

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in leading complex, multi-site technical deployments in manufacturing environments, with a focus on program management, team development, and stakeholder communication. Proficient in creating deployment frameworks and improving operational efficiencies through effective collaboration and documentation.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Fluent Mandarin
• Strong Program/Project Management
• Team Leadership and Development
• Experience in High-Tempo EMS Manufacturing
• Familiarity with AI Inspection and Automation Deployments

Hard Skills

• Technical Deployment Management
• Deployment Cycle Time Tracking
• Acceptance Criteria Completion
• Onboarding and Training Frameworks
• Quality Standards Establishment

Soft Skills

• Exceptional Communication
• Stakeholder Management
• High Ownership
• High Discipline
• High Energy

Industry Keywords

• Manufacturing Environments
• Multi-Site Deployments
• High-Tempo EMS
• Automotive Manufacturing
• Electronics Manufacturing

Tools & Technologies

• Project Dashboards
• Commissioning Templates
• Continuous-Improvement Processes