Director, Engineering

The India Center is a pivotal extension of our growth strategy, focusing on building world-class centers of excellence teams while fostering a seamless blend of StarRez's core values with India's dynamic talent ecosystem.

The Role

The Director of Product Engineering is a proactive, self-starting leader of leaders working across Products and leading multiple product engineering teams. With a proven track record of consistently delivering customer value, translating to commercial results in a B2B SAAS environment. As a leader across Product and Engineering you will be a champion for building the right thing and building it right.

An integral part of our Leadership team, you will embed lean practices across the entire PDLC – ensuring customer value is at the core of everything we do. You do this by promoting a culture of experimentation, validating hypothesis, learning from mistakes, failing fast, and promoting a continuous improvement culture.

You will be responsible for guiding teams toward making pragmatic decisions, balancing customer, business and technical needs to deliver the best outcomes for StarRez and our customers. You demonstrate strong leadership, active listening, effective communication, and the ability to influence and drive credibility and reliability within the team.

Role Specifics

• Work Location: Hyderabad, Telengana – Hybrid 4 days in office

• Travel: <20% [The percent of travel is an estimation, and it could vary up or down based on business needs throughout the year.]

• Reporting Structure: Reports to VP, Engineering

What You Will Own

• Leadership and Culture: A strong team leader and steward, capable of inspiring a culture of excellence. A natural problem solver who stays calm under pressure to keep team members aligned and focused, people look to you for leadership and guidance. Demonstrating optimism, self-awareness, accountability, and openness to feedback for personal growth and instilling these values in your team.

• Strategy and Engagement: capable of transitioning between high-level strategic context and detailed product execution effortlessly, using your exceptional communication and storytelling skills to motivate and influence stakeholders at all levels.

• Team Management: Being an outcome-oriented and strong people manager, you coach and develop your team to align with company goals, emphasizing urgency and accountability. Cultivate a positive work environment that boosts morale, while fostering a high-performance culture through professional development and hiring top talent.

• Operational Excellence and Best Practice: Oversee road mapping, capacity planning, and delivery management while implementing and promoting software development best practices across the org including Architectural and Technical decision-making and documentation. Uplift org performance by embedding continuous improvement through learning and upskilling leaders.

• Delivery Management and Impact Measurement: Coordinate a Delivery Management practice in collaboration with other Senior Leaders within Product and Technology valuing transparency, and fast feedback. Ensure that appropriate reporting structures and metrics are in place for effective management and reporting of outcomes and delivery.

• Risk and Roadmap Management: Identify and mitigate risks that could impact product development and delivery. Be prepared to pivot direction and adjust the roadmap based on changing market conditions or business priorities. Develop contingency plans to address unforeseen challenges and changes in market conditions.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, both within Product & Technology and across the business, to ensure we're building the right thing the right way. Work effectively with other functions to improve our development practices and processes to ensure we consistently deliver exceptional customer value.

• Stakeholder Management: Ensuring alignment with key stakeholders by continuously communicating plans and status effectively across the company. Manage relationships with cross-functional and business stakeholders, as well as external vendors.

• Metrics and KPIs: Be data driven in your approach to understanding and improving both team process and product performance. Driven to deliver high quality value for customers, you will be optimizing the end-to-end product development process.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in building and leading product engineering teams.

• 2+ years of experience leading multiple mid-sized teams (20+ people)

• Engineering and/or Business Degree qualifications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record of leading teams to successful production launches.

• Detailed knowledge of lean product practices, and agile software development methodologies.

• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while managing multiple evolving priorities effectively.

• Strong leadership and people management skills, and experience building and scaling a high-performing team.

• Experience in property management technology and Higher Education Housing is a plus.

Even if you don't have all of the Preferred Qualifications listed above, but feel you have what it takes to succeed in the role, we would love to hear from you!

Reasons to join our Team:

StarRez is not just a workplace—it's a place to belong, build, and grow.

• A Culture That Lasts: Many of our team members have been with us for 20+ years—a testament to our people-first philosophy.

• Global Impact, Local Ownership: Join a team that spans across Australia, the USA, the UK, and Canada, working on industry-leading solutions, while building the centre up from ground up.

• Long-Term Vision: We're not here for short-term gains. We invest in our people for the long haul, creating an environment where you can grow, lead, and thrive.

• Innovation with Stability: Backed by Vista Equity Partners, we combine the agility of a scaling SaaS company with the stability of long-term industry leadership.

• Z-Factor: We take pride in our culture of passion, care, and high performance. The Z-Factor defines how we support our teams, foster growth, and ensure that everyone at StarRez thrives.

If you are excited about building game-changing products in a high-impact, collaborative environment—StarRez India is the place for you.

We are proud of our diverse workforce and are dedicated to creating a safe and welcoming environment for all employees. People from various ethnicities, ages, genders, and abilities are encouraged to apply.

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