Global Design-to-Launch Process Leader

Bose Corporation

Framingham (MA)

On-site

USD 153,000 - 210,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Bose Corporation is seeking a Design to Launch Global Process Owner (D2L GPO) in Framingham, MA. This role owns the D2L process architecture, governance, and transformation roadmap to enable faster, higher quality product launches across a global organization.

You will lead enterprise-wide improvements, integrate stage-gate and financial reviews, and collaborate with Finance, Product, Engineering, and Operations to set readiness criteria and financial metrics.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Product Development, Business, Operations, Information Systems, or related field.
10+ years of experience in technology product development, engineering, program/product management, operations, or enterprise process leadership.
Experience with stage-gate development, business cases, financial governance, and product economics.
Experience working across internal development teams, suppliers, external partners, and contract manufacturers.
Proven ability to influence senior cross-functional leaders in a global matrixed organization.
Consumer electronics, audio technology, or similar hardware/software product experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Own the global D2L process architecture, standards, governance, performance model, and transformation roadmap.
Define the end-to-end process from product opportunity and requirements through development, validation, industrialization, launch, and lifecycle management.
Establish clear roles, decision rights, stage gates, milestones, maturity criteria, and escalation paths.
Balance enterprise standards with appropriate flexibility based on product type, complexity, investment, and risk.
Integrate stage-gate and financial reviews throughout the product development lifecycle.
Partner with Finance, Product, Engineering, and Operations to establish maturity expectations and financial criteria at key decision points.
Ensure business cases evolve to reflect investment, product cost, margin, revenue, timing, and risk.
Improve visibility into the financial impact of requirements changes, rework, delays, and complexity.
Ensure D2L supports custom, platform-based, and hybrid product development models.
Incorporate platform maturity, technology readiness, reuse opportunities, and dependencies into appropriate decision points.
Establish common processes and expectations across internal teams, external development partners, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.
Define enterprise KPIs for development speed, predictability, quality, investment effectiveness, cost, and launch readiness.
Identify and address systemic causes of rework, late requirements changes, schedule instability, and downstream issues.
Lead continuous improvement and end-to-end redesign of the D2L process using data and performance insights.
Partner with Technology, Data, Engineering Systems, and functional teams to ensure technology supports the target D2L process.
Enable effective integration across PLM, ALM, requirements management, ERP, quality, sourcing, analytics, and collaboration platforms.
Establish launch-readiness criteria across Product, Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply, Service, Marketing, Sales, and channel organizations.
Strengthen the transition from development into scaled production, commercialization, and lifecycle management.
Incorporate post-launch quality, consumer, financial, manufacturing, and partner performance into continuous process improvement.
Lead adoption of D2L standards and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders across the global organization.