Associate Director - Engineering

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Your Role: Associate Director - Engineering

As the Associate Director of Engineering at Elanco, you will be a key leader within our Engineering team, responsible for driving technical excellence and contributing to our product operating model. Your role will be pivotal in staffing, developing, and mentoring high-performing technical individuals, ensuring consistent practices, and upholding robust technical competency.

Your Responsibilities:

• Support and shape technical strategy in alignment with the Product Operating Model, focusing on agile, customer-driven development and operational excellence.
• Develop and implement staffing plans to build and maintain high-caliber engineering teams.
• Mentor, coach, and develop engineering leaders and individual contributors, fostering growth and career development.
• Establish and promote consistent technical practices across teams to ensure high performance and productivity.
• Champion continuous improvement in technical competency, code quality, and system architecture.
• Partnering with technology leaders, oversee technical roadmaps and project delivery, ensuring solutions meet quality, reliability, and scalability standards.
• Hands on coaching, unblocking to support team members, this means being a proficient engineer and problem solver to help develop and unblock your team.
• Foster an environment that empowers teams to make data-driven decisions and innovate through experimentation.
• Ensure clear communication channels, encouraging collaboration and transparency within and across teams.
• Support a culture that values cross-functional collaboration, shared ownership, and a strong focus on customer outcomes.
• Partner with Engineering demand management supporting incoming demand with Engineering resource.
• Support Engineering Demand Management with product governance discussions ensuring the right engineering talent is deployed to support product needs.

What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications):

• A proven track record of 7+ years in an engineering leadership role, with strong technical understanding and hands-on experience.
• Demonstrated success in staffing, developing, and leading high-performing technical teams.
• Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in information technology (IT)
• Strong experience with agile methodologies, DevSecOps practices, modern software engineering frameworks and Platform Engineering concepts.

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications):

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across cross-functional teams.
• A deep commitment to technical excellence and an ability to empower teams through continuous learning and improvement.
• Experience embedding and scaling the product-first principles as defined by the Product Operating Model would be highly advantageous.

Additional Information:

• Travel: 0%
• Location: India, Bangalore

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown underrecognized groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Elanco we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive work environment. If you think you might be a good fit for a role but don't necessarily meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this role or other roles!

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