Director Release Train Product Management

Aspen Technology; Bedford (MA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Charitable giveback day

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Aspen Technology, a business unit inside Emerson Corporation, is seeking a Director, Release Train Product Management to lead the program backlog and deliver value within SAFe.

You will coach a team of Product Owners, align with Solution Management and Architects, and drive PI planning, Lean portfolio alignment, and feature delivery. This role is based in Bedford, MA and offers strong executive leadership exposure.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive product-centric software development leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering; Chemical preference is noted.
• Experience in process engineering and optimization with domain products.
• Ability to communicate product vision and road maps to teams.
• Proven Agile leadership within SAFe environments.
• Strong analytical skills to leverage dashboards and reports.

Responsibilities

• Drive program backlog and prioritize features to maximize value.
• Lead PI Planning and align with ART objectives and strategic outcomes.
• Grow and coach a team of Product Owners for delivery excellence.
• Collaborate with Owners, Architects, and Engineering to refine backlog.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Product management

SAFe experience

Backlog prioritization

Team leadership

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering (Chemical preferred)

Advanced degree (MS/PhD)

Tools

SAFe framework

Program Increment planning

Job description

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

Aspen Technology, a business unit inside Emerson Corporation, is a leading industrial software company, serving over 3,000 customers with over $1 billion in annual revenue, more than 60 locations worldwide, and nearly 4,000 employees. AspenTech solutions address complex environments where it is critical to optimize the asset design, operation and maintenance lifecycle. Through AspenTech's unique combination of deep domain expertise and award-winning innovative software suites, customers in asset-intensive industries can improve their operational excellence while achieving sustainability goals.

The AspenTech Performance Engineering Solution provides a market leading integrated suite of products to optimize the performance of process industry assets across the CAPEX and OPEX cycles and is powered by flagship process modeling products such as Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus with a proven track record of value creation over several decades.

Your Impact

• As a Director, Release Train Product Management working within the Scaled Agile Framework, you are responsible for turning vision into reality by managing the program backlog, prioritizing features, and collaborating with Solution Product Management to deliver solutions that align with business goals with the shortest lead time.
• Execution Strategy: Responsible for the Program Backlog, working with Solution Product Management, the System Architect, and the Release Train Engineer to prioritize the backlog to maximize the delivery of value over time.
• Feature Definition: Responsible for turning product vision into concrete deliverable features. Working with the Product Owner team to refine backlog items into items of incremental value delivery.
• Team Leadership: Leading and growing a team of Product Owners. You will be responsible for hiring, coaching, and retaining top talent, and for ensuring that the team is continuously improving.
• PI Planning Leadership: Collaborate with Business Owners, Product Owners, Architects, and ART leadership to define and communicate Program Increment (PI) objectives, establish feature priorities, and ensure alignment of the Agile Release Train to strategic outcomes.
• Lean Portfolio Alignment: Apply Lean economics, including WSJF and value-based prioritization techniques, to optimize sequencing and maximize outcomes.

What You'll Need

• 10+ years of progressive product-centric software development leadership, including a demonstrated record of success delivering value with quality.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, with preference to Chemical Engineering. Advanced degree is a plus.
• Experience in process engineering and optimization will be extremely important including real life user experience of AspenTech Performance Engineering products such Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus.
• Experience in communicating product vision and road maps to the development teams.
• Experience leading Agile development teams, working within the SAFe framework
• Proven ability to analyze reports, dashboards, and other tools to make critical decisions and recommendations to help the company to achieve its goals. Strong analytical skills.

Benefits

• paid time off
• charitable giveback day
• medical/dental/vision insurance
• retirement benefits to eligible employees

The salary range for this role is $196,800.00 - $246,000.00. This range represents what we in good faith believe is the range possible for base compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on several factors. This range may be modified in the future. This role is also eligible for bonus or variable incentive pay.