Delivery Director, Product Engineering

Slalom; Nashville (TN); Vor Ort; USD 195.000 - 244.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Well-being reimbursement (annual)

401(k) with match

Dental, vision, health coverage

Discounted insurance (home/auto/pet)

Zusammenfassung

Slalom Build is seeking a Delivery Director–Product Engineer to own the AI-native delivery system across a portfolio of programs. You will lead Product Engineers, partner with client executives, and ensure measurable business outcomes while driving engineering excellence.

You will mentor teams, shape the technical strategy, and align engineering efforts with client goals, ROI, and ethical AI adoption. This is an onsite leadership role with future hybrid possibilities.

Qualifikationen

• Proven success leading complex, multi-workstream programs with accountability for roadmap, financials, and technical quality.
• Strong technical fluency—comfortable in code, repositories, IDEs, version control, and AI-enabled engineering tools.
• Proven success building and scaling AI-native ways of working—context, specifications, prompts, agents, and workflows across build, test, and delivery.

Aufgaben

• Own product outcomes, technical quality, and delivery performance across programs and projects.
• Define and evolve the AI-native engineering system and workflows.
• Set technical direction for AI-enabled delivery across programs and ensure teams build on it.
• Translate strategy into portfolio-level product direction and investment cases.
• Staff the right roles on the right programs and align with go-to-market leaders.
• Mentor and grow Product Engineers and managers into AI-native leaders.
• Lead value-based conversations with executives about ROI backed by experiments.

Kenntnisse

Program leadership

Financial management

Technical fluency

AI-native delivery

Executive communication

Mentoring

Risk management

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

IDEs

Version control

AI-enabled engineering tools

Jobbeschreibung

**Please note that this role is not remote and requires onsite presence up to five days per week. While there may be an opportunity to transition to a hybrid work arrangement in the future, candidates should be comfortable with and able to meet the current onsite requirements.**

Delivery Director – Product Engineer

AI-native product engineering leader who owns the AI-native delivery system andengineering practice across a portfolio of programs and the leaders who run them.

Who You’ll Work With

Slalom's Product Engineers are hands-on technology and AI experts embedded in ourclients' delivery teams. Our job is to make sure our clients build the right thing at theright time — and then build it right. We engineer the context, specifications, and AI-enabled workflows that let mixed teams of engineers, architects, designers, dataspecialists, and AI agents move from idea to working software faster. We arepassionate, adaptive experts who continually practice and hone our craft.

What You’ll Do

As a Delivery Director-level Product Engineerin Slalom's Cloud-Build capability, you areaccountable for product outcomes, technical quality, and the AI-native delivery systemacross large, complex, AI-enabled programs or a portfolio of smaller projects andprograms. You partner with client executives, product owners,and engineering leadersto translate strategy into portfolio-level product direction and investment cases, lead theProduct Engineers and managers who run the work, orchestrate mixed teams of peopleand AI agents, and align with Cloud-Buildand cross-functional go-to-marketleaders soengineering excellence becomes lasting client value. You set the technical and AI-workflow standard for the practice, so every program traces back to a measurablebusiness outcome. Core responsibilities include:

• Owning product outcomes, technical quality, and delivery performance —roadmaps, forecasts, and margin — acrossyourprograms and projects,measured in OKRs, KPIs, and ROI.
• Defining and evolving the practice's AI-native engineering system — contextengineering standards, specifications, prototyping and experimentation patterns,prompts, agents, templates, and workflows — and championing scalable, ethicalAI adoption with Solution Architects and AI specialists.
• Setting technical direction for AI-enabled delivery across programs — toolchain,repositories, integrations, and agentic orchestration — and ensuring teams buildon it.
• Translating client strategy into portfolio-level product direction — moving fromambiguity to specifications, prototypes, and validated investment cases.
• Partnering with delivery leadership to align governance, risk management, anddelivery health across programs and to staff the right roles on the right programs.
• Leading, mentoring, and growing Product Engineers and managers — buildingtechnical depth, AI fluency, specialization, and practice leadership—so theybecomeAI-native, business-minded technical leaders.
• Building and deepening relationships with client executives and decision-makers,and leading value-based conversations about AI, engineering approach, andreturn on investment backed by experiment results.
• Partnering with sales and go-to-market leaders by lending technical credibility topursuits and solution offerings — AI-native and agentic products, rapidprototypes, and AI-enabled modernization.
• Leading teams and clients through change — creating psychological safety forexperimentation and clarifying where accountability sits between people and AI-assisted workflows.

What You’ll Bring

You are a curious problem solver and bring extensive experience leading softwaredelivery and engineering at program and portfolio scale, with a track record of owningproduct outcomes and financial performance — not just outputs — across multipleconcurrent, complex programs. You demonstrate:

• Proven success leading complex, multi-workstreamprojects andprograms, withaccountability for roadmap, financials, and technical quality.
• Strong technical fluency — comfortable in code, repositories, IDEs, versioncontrol, and AI-enabled engineering tools, and credible with engineering andarchitecture leaders.
• Proven success building and scaling AI-native ways of working — context,specifications, prompts, agents, and workflows — across build, test, and delivery.
• Experience orchestrating AI-centric delivery — smaller teams, AI across buildand test, and measurable gains in timelines and cost — and refining it aspractices evolve.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect client needs to scalable, AI-enabled solutions and demonstrate return on investment.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executives and communicate effectively acrosstechnical and business audiences.
• Strong risk identification, escalation, and mitigation skills across a portfolio —managing ambiguity with minimal oversight.
• Experience mentoring and managing technical delivery leaders, includingmanagers, with a focus on building high-performing teams.
• Comfort with ambiguity, a passion for innovation, and a commitment to deliveringmeasurable outcomes.

About Us

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact.

What sets us apart?

We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.

Compensation and 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 includemeaningful 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.

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 $195,000 to $244,000. 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.

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EEO and Accommodations

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of these selection processes. Please advise the talent acquisition team or contact [e-mail] if you require accommodations during the interview process.

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