Senior Manager, Product Development, Global MPS Belt Drive (Moto)

Gates Corporation; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

401(k) match

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid vacation & holidays

Job summary

Gates Corporation in Denver, Colorado is seeking a visionary Program Management / Product Development leader to own the global portfolio from concept to commercialization. You will align product and technology programs with business priorities, manage cross-regional teams, and drive multi-year roadmaps for complex platforms.

You will lead governance, deliver executive-ready updates, and partner with finance, supply chain, and regional leaders to optimize value while ensuring safety, quality, and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive engineering and new product development experience, including significant responsibility for complex, cross-functional product portfolios from concept through commercialization.
• 5+ years of people-leadership experience, including demonstrated success leading managers or senior technical leaders and developing a multidisciplinary organization of comparable scale.
• Demonstrated experience leading globally distributed teams and delivering through cultural, geographic, functional, and time-zone complexity.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field; advanced degree or MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute the global new product development strategy, operating model, and multi-year roadmap.
• Own the global development portfolio including prioritization, budgets, capacity, and delivery across regions.
• Establish governance and deliver concise updates on performance, risks, and business outcomes.
• Lead portfolio reviews with executive stakeholders and align cross-functional partners to executable programs.
• Drive delivery against safety, quality, cost, timing, and launch-readiness targets while managing dependencies.
• Define and monitor portfolio metrics such as cycle time, milestones, and product cost.
• Champion continuous improvement and global processes to increase speed and consistency.

Skills

Global leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic program mgmt

Executive communication

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

MBA or advanced degree preferred

Tools

APQP/PPAP

IATF 16949

PPAP

ISO 9001

AS9100

Job description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Program Management

• Set and execute the global new product development strategy, operating model, and multi-year roadmap in alignment with business, technology, and customer priorities.
• Own the global development portfolio, including prioritization, sequencing, resource allocation, budgets, capacity, critical dependencies, and delivery commitments across regions and product platforms.
• Establish rigorous portfolio and stage-gate governance, ensuring timely, fact-based decisions on scope, investment, risk, readiness, and escalation.
• Lead portfolio reviews with executive stakeholders and communicate concise, decision-oriented updates on performance, tradeoffs, risks, mitigation plans, and business outcomes.
• Partner with Product Management, Business Development, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and regional leaders to convert market opportunities into executable product and technology programs.
• Drive predictable delivery against safety, quality, cost, timing, performance, and launch-readiness targets while actively managing cross-program dependencies and enterprise risks.
• Define and monitor portfolio metrics, including development cycle time, milestone attainment, resource utilization, technical risk retirement, product cost, quality, and launch performance.
• Champion continuous improvement, common global processes, digital tools, and lessons learned that increase speed, transparency, scalability, and consistency of outcomes.

Product Development

• Provide organizational accountability for end-to-end new product development, from customer insight and business case through architecture, design, validation, industrialization, launch, and post-launch learning.
• Ensure robust technical decision-making and design excellence through effective requirements management, systems engineering, design reviews, DFMEA, DVP&R, design for manufacturability, and verification and validation practices.
• Align global engineering teams, manufacturing sites, laboratories, suppliers, and external partners around common architectures, standards, interfaces, and development plans.
• Own development capability and capacity planning, including make-versus-buy decisions, technical partnerships, supplier engagement, prototype strategy, test capability, and capital requirements.
• Balance platform reuse, innovation, technical debt, product cost, manufacturability, sustainability, and speed-to-market to maximize portfolio value and long-term competitiveness.
• Ensure products and development practices comply with applicable customer regulatory, safety, quality-system, and industry requirements across all served regions.

Leadership

• Lead a global organization engineers and technical professionals through multiple engineering managers and senior technical leaders; clarify accountability, decision rights, and interfaces across regions.
• Select, coach, and develop people leaders; set clear expectations; conduct succession and talent reviews; and build a strong pipeline for critical leadership and technical roles.
• Create an inclusive, high-accountability engineering culture that promotes collaboration, constructive challenge, disciplined problem solving, innovation, and rapid organizational learning.
• Translate enterprise strategy into organizational goals and ensure managers cascade priorities, measures, and performance expectations throughout the team.
• Shape the global organization, workforce plan, location strategy, capability roadmap, and resource model needed to meet current commitments and future growth.
• Model enterprise leadership, sound judgment, and transparent communication; resolve cross-functional conflict and make timely decisions amid ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Build trusted relationships with customers, suppliers, external development partners, and senior leaders to strengthen execution and influence strategic direction.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS

• 12+ years of progressive engineering and new product development experience, including significant responsibility for complex, cross-functional product portfolios from concept through commercialization. Special consideration for candidates with personal and/or professional experience in motorcycles, powersports, and scooters applications.
• 5+ years of people-leadership experience, including demonstrated success leading managers or senior technical leaders and developing a multidisciplinary organization of comparable scale.
• Demonstrated experience leading globally distributed teams and delivering through cultural, geographic, functional, and time-zone complexity.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field required; advanced technical degree or MBA preferred.
• Experience with relevant APQP/PPAP automotive, mobility, industrial, or aerospace development and quality systems, such as IATF 16949, APQP, PPAP, ISO 9001, or AS9100.
• Proven record of improving engineering execution, organizational capability, speed-to-market, and measurable product or business outcomes.

Skills and Capabilities

• Enterprise-minded leader who can connect customer needs, technology choices, IP, portfolio investments, talent, and execution to business strategy.
• Demonstrated leader-of-leaders capability, including organizational design, delegation through managers, succession planning, performance management, coaching, and building diverse global teams.
• Strong command of product development systems, technical risk management, portfolio governance, resource planning, and industrialization or launch readiness.
• Financial and commercial acumen sufficient to evaluate business cases, manage operating and project budgets, make investment tradeoffs, and connect technical outcomes to value creation.
• Ability to simplify complex issues, frame options and recommendations, and communicate with credibility to executive, customer, technical, and operational audiences.
• Decisive and adaptable in ambiguous environments, with the judgment to balance urgency, technical rigor, business risk, and long-term organizational health.
• Skilled at influencing across organizational boundaries, resolving conflict, and aligning independent global teams, suppliers, and partners around shared outcomes.
• Data-driven approach to performance management and continuous improvement, with disciplined use of metrics, root-cause analysis, and operating reviews.
• Uncompromising commitment to safety, ethics, quality, inclusion, and customer success.

Pay & Benefits

• Salary: $140,000 - $190,000
• Full-Time
• Bonus Eligible
• Relocation is not provided
• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance and other voluntary benefit options: benefits begin on the first day of the month immediately following your date of hire
• Eligible for (3 or 2) weeks of paid vacation + 11 holidays (9 scheduled & 2 floating) + 8 sick days. All vacation days are accrued
• 401(k): 3% company contribution and additional 3% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement

Why Gates?

Founded in 1911 in Denver, Colorado, Gates is publicly traded on the NYSE. While we might operate in a vast amount of time zones we operate as 'One Gates' and have a common goal of pushing the boundaries of materials science. We invest in our people, bringing real-world experience that enables us to solve our customers' diverse challenges of today and anticipate those of tomorrow.

Work Environment

Gates is an Equal Opportunity and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of race, sex, color, religion, age, disability, pregnancy, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other consideration defined by law.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; use hands and fingers to work with objects, tools, or controls; and use office equipment including computers, telephones, and/or copiers/scanners. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in Colorado, Gates is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation range is specific to the State of Colorado and takes into account various factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to the candidate's relevant experience, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.

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