Technical Product Director for Performance Tooling Solutions

Arm Limited; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Cambridge is seeking a Director to lead the technical direction of performance tooling. This position involves guiding engineering teams, ensuring robust solutions, and collaborating with industry partners. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in technical strategy and performance engineering, with a focus on high-quality software delivery. Join a dynamic environment that empowers innovative thinking and diverse collaboration.

Qualifications

• Validated experience leading technical strategy and architectural direction for complex software products.
• Experience guiding engineering teams focused on high-quality delivery and data-informed decision-making.
• Solid working knowledge of performance engineering and its related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical vision and architectural roadmap for performance-tooling products.
• Lead cross-team technical strategy for coherent design decisions.
• Work with managers to ensure teams have clear priorities and technical direction.

Skills

Technical strategy leadership

Performance engineering knowledge

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Job Overview:

Arm is rapidly growing its developer ecosystem with a new generation of performance-analysis capabilities. We are seeking a Director to lead the technical direction and architecture of Arm's performance tooling portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of engineering leadership, technical strategy, and ecosystem partnership, ensuring Arm delivers world-class tools that help developers understand, optimise, and innovate on Arm-based platforms.

The successful candidate will guide multiple engineering teams, align architectural decisions and features across products, and ensure that our performance-tooling solutions are effective, robust, scalable, and trusted by developers worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver value to users by driving the technical vision and architectural roadmap requirements for Arm’s performance-tooling products which includes data collection, profiling, analysis, visualisation, and insight generation.
• Lead cross-team technical strategy, ensuring coherent design decisions across components, services, and toolchains.
• Work with engineering managers and product leads to ensure teams have clear priorities, the right technical direction, and an environment that supports experimentation and continuous improvement.
• Represent Arm externally with partners, customers, and the open-source community, ensuring our tools integrate well with industry standards and complement the wider developer ecosystem.
• Evaluate and guide technical risks, architectural trade-offs, and long-term platform decisions.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Validated experience leading technical strategy and architectural direction for complex software products.
• Experience guiding engineering teams, with a focus on high-quality delivery, well-reasoned trade-offs, and data-informed decision-making.
• Solid working knowledge of performance engineering and its related technologies, systems programming principles, CPU architecture fundamentals, and performance-critical software behaviour.
• Ability to align diverse team members, communicate sophisticated ideas clearly, and build collaborative momentum across distributed teams.

Nice To Have Skills and Experience:

• Familiarity with compilers, toolchains, and low-level runtime behaviour (e.g., optimisations, JIT interactions, instruction-level performance).
• Exposure to performance tooling across multiple architectures (Arm, x86, RISC-V) providing wider insight and strategic judgment.
• Demonstrated ability to engage with ecosystem forums, standards groups or partner engagements.

10x Mindset at Arm

At Arm, we believe progress happens when people are empowered to think bigger and push beyond what seems possible. Our 10x mindset is about curiosity, ambition and creating impact that will be used by millions. We learn fast, prioritise collaboration and turn bold ideas into real technology. We look for people who are inspired by this way of working and want to grow in an environment where bold ideas are welcomed. Read more about how we bring the 10x mindset to life on the Arm blog.

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Accommodations at Arm

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Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.