Director, Product Engineering

APTEAN; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Aptean is seeking a Director of Product Engineering in Alpharetta, GA to lead the Paragon TMS engineering portfolio. You will set technical direction, develop talent, and drive an execution culture focused on customer impact and continuous improvement.

You will partner with product and customer-facing teams to deliver reliable software capabilities, oversee architecture and delivery, and champion engineering excellence across global teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required.
• Progressive experience leading software product engineering teams.
• Experience in people leadership, technical strategy, and delivery ownership.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally in a software or SaaS environment.
• Strong communication, judgment, initiative, and execution discipline.

Responsibilities

• Set engineering strategy, architecture direction, and delivery priorities for Paragon TMS.
• Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers and engineers.
• Partner with product and customer-facing teams to understand customer problems.
• Manage engineering capacity, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments.
• Champion reliability, maintainability, and technical excellence.

Skills

People leadership

Technical strategy

Delivery ownership

Cross-functional partnering

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

APTEAN

Position Title: Director, Product Engineering

Location: Atlanta GA USA Alpharetta, Georgia US

Location Details: Onsite

Experience Level: H

Country: US

Type: Employee Regular Full Time

Job Description

Overview

About the role

As Director, Product Engineering supporting Paragon TMS in Alpharetta, GA, you will lead product engineering for the transportation management software portfolio. You will set technical direction, develop engineering talent, and create an execution culture grounded in sound judgment, customer impact, and continuous improvement. You will partner with product and customer-facing teams to deliver reliable software capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Set engineering strategy, architecture direction, delivery standards, and priorities for Paragon TMS
• Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers and engineers
• Partner with product and customer-facing teams to understand customer problems
• Manage engineering capacity, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments
• Champion reliability, maintainability, technical excellence, and recurring-issue reduction

About you

You use data, customer evidence, and technical judgment to make decisions when requirements or constraints are not fully defined. You communicate progress, tradeoffs, risks, and decisions clearly to senior stakeholders and executive leadership. You build strong partnerships across global teams and contribute to engineering standards beyond your immediate product area.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Progressive experience leading software product engineering teams
• Experience with people leadership, technical strategy, and delivery ownership
• Experience partnering cross-functionally in a software or SaaS environment
• Strong communication, judgment, initiative, and execution discipline

To be ahead of the pack, you might have:

• Experience with transportation management, enterprise applications, cloud software, or supply chain technology
• Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams
• Background including a master's degree

What's in it for you?

Aptean offers competitive pay and robust benefit plans along with the opportunity to grow your career in a fast-paced, flexible and casual environment, an outstanding opportunity for career development and growth.

About Aptean

At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow's unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean's purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean's compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.

"At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company." TVN Reddy

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.