The Director of R&D will lead product strategy, manage financial forecasting, and drive AI initiatives, while overseeing R&D teams and ensuring product security compliance.
Leadership
- Develop and maintain comprehensive internal and external product roadmaps for each product line, aligning with overall business goals and customer needs.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to build compelling business cases for product modernization initiatives, including cost-benefit analysis, ROI forecasting, and risk assessment.
- Continuously assess market trends, customer feedback, and competitive positioning to inform roadmap prioritization and strategic investments.
- Lead the analysis, planning, and implementation of AI solutions as part of the overall R&D and business strategy, identifying opportunities where artificial intelligence can drive innovation, improve product performance, and enhance customer experience across all product lines.Lead
- monthly and annual R&D financial forecasting, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and budgetary expectations.
- Prepare and deliver presentations for monthly BURC (Business Unit Review Calls) and the annual BUSR (Business Unit Strategic Review).
- Oversee and validate monthly salary reconciliations for all R&D personnel.
- Collaborate with the Finance team by providing insights and context for monthly financial executive summaries, including explanations of forecasting variances.
- Ensure timely and accurate upload of monthly R&D task data to corporate systems.
- Actively participate in weekly leadership calls, contributing to strategic discussions and cross-functional alignment.
- Collaborate with Sales/Marketing to determine ongoing pricing and packaging model for all products
- Assist KPMG with compiling and vetting all qualified R&D activities annually to submit for R&D shred tax credits
People Leader
- Conduct weekly meetings with R&D teams across each product line to understand current challenges, provide support, and assist in issue triage and resolution.
- Design and implement regular cross-training sessions to broaden developer expertise across multiple product lines, enabling greater flexibility and resource coverage within the business unit.
- Ensure each development team is equipped with the necessary tools to maintain a centralized, secure, and backed-up code repository that is easily accessible by authorized developers.
- Establish and enforce robust procedures for source code management, including branch maintenance, staged testing, and orderly deployment processes to support defect-free releases.
- Oversee the implementation and ongoing monitoring of security and encryption protocols for all web-based products, ensuring data integrity and compliance with industry standards.
- Ensure all products that handle online payment transactions meet PCI compliance standards, including successful completion of quarterly PCI security scans and testing.
Top Skills
AI
Code Repository Management
Data Management
Financial Forecasting
Pci Compliance
R&D
Web-Based Product Security
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