AHEAD

Lead a globally distributed team developing and maintaining Signal ERP, balancing technical guidance, AI-assisted workflows, and stakeholder partnership. | Requires at least five years of software development experience, including two years in management or team leadership, modern web stack proficiency, and strong software development practices. | AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. The Software Engineering Manager – Foundry is responsible for leading the team that builds Signal, the in-house ERP application that runs the operational backbone of Foundry, AHEAD’s engineering and integration arm that designs and deploys custom enterprise infrastructure from the data center to the edge. Signal supports workflows such as production and work order management, inventory and materials tracking, procurement, and integration scheduling, serving as the system of record that keeps engineering, operations, and delivery teams aligned as infrastructure moves through design, build, and deployment. This role owns the health, growth, and performance of a globally distributed team based in the US and India, while partnering with product and business stakeholders to deliver features that drive real value. While primarily focused on people leadership and delivery, this position requires strong technical instincts to guide architectural decisions, remove blockers, and set the standard for the fluent, responsible use of AI tools and coding agents. The ideal candidate will embody AHEAD’s values of passion, quality, teamwork, and integrity, and will measure success by the success of the team and the impact of the products they deliver. \n Duties/Responsibilities Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers building Signal, the software that drives Foundry. Global Collaboration: Lead a globally distributed team, collaborating closely with developers based in both the US and India. Career Development: Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career development for team members. Hiring and Onboarding: Participate in hiring efforts, including sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding new engineers, hiring and developing for judgment, product sense, and verification skills rather than raw output. Team Culture: Foster a healthy team culture built on collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. Stakeholder Partnership: Partner with product management and business stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable development plans. Delivery Ownership: Own delivery timelines and ensure the team ships high-quality software on schedule. Technical Guidance: Guide technical discussions and help the team make sound architectural decisions. Removing Obstacles: Remove obstacles and shield the team from distractions so they can focus on building. Development Process: Establish and refine development processes and AI-assisted workflows, balancing agility with predictability. AI Leadership: Champion fluent, responsible use of AI tools and coding agents as a force multiplier, so the team delivers faster while staying firmly accountable for review, testing, quality, and security. AI Workflows and Standards: Shape the team’s AI workflows, tooling, and standards, and keep improving them as the landscape shifts. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate cross-functionally with operations, customer success, and other engineering teams. Technical Engagement: Stay close enough to the codebase, and to how the team works with AI, to give meaningful input during code reviews and technical planning. Education and Experience Minimum Required – 5+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years in a management or team-lead role. Preferred – 8+ years of experience in software development, with 3+ years managing teams building web applications and experience in manufacturing, supply chain, or ERP systems. Knowledge, Skills, Abilities Programming Languages and Technologies: Experience managing teams building web applications, ideally in Elixir/Phoenix or similar modern stacks, with the ability to provide meaningful technical guidance. AI-Assisted Development: Fluency with modern AI development tools, and a clear point of view on how they change the way teams build, hire, and measure impact. Development Practices: Strong understanding of software development practices, including testing, CI/CD, code review, and Agile methodologies. People Management: Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain strong engineering talent, with a genuine interest in the growth and well-being of the people you manage. Delivery Management: Experience managing delivery across multiple products or initiatives simultaneously. Trust and Collaboration: A track record of building trust with both the team and cross-functional partners. Communication: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences. Adaptability: Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information. APIs and Infrastructure: Familiarity with REST and GraphQL APIs, database design, and cloud infrastructure is a plus. Domain Knowledge: Experience in manufacturing or supply chain is a plus. \n $180,000 - $220,000 a year \n The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location. Why AHEAD: Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between. We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning. USA Employment Benefits include: - Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance - 401(k) - Paid company holidays - Paid time off - Paid parental and caregiver leave - Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details. Use of AI: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Notice or contact us at privacy@ahead.com. You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview. Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out.

You would deliver full-stack features end to end, use AI tools in development, mentor engineers, and help shape technical direction. | The role seeks 5–7+ years of software development experience, ownership of significant projects, strong engineering judgment, a product mindset, and adaptability to new technologies and AI-assisted workflows. | AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. AHEAD is on the hunt for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to help build Hatch, our flagship platform. We’re a leading IT services provider, trusted by some of the world’s largest companies to design, build, run, and modernize their most important technology across cloud, data, AI, and security. Hatch is an advanced platform for IT lifecycle management, renewal, procurement, and logistics, giving enterprises real-time visibility and control over their IT assets, orders, contracts, and inventory across thousands of sites. Unity, its sibling platform, extends those capabilities to streamline our own operations and service delivery. You’ll join a progressive engineering team that lives on the forefront of technology. We build real products, adopt new tools early, sweat the details, and trade ideas constantly. You will learn here, and you’ll have the autonomy to make a visible impact fast. We’re far less interested in the languages on your résumé than in how you think. You’ll own meaningful problems end to end, starting from the user and the business outcome. You’ll design, build, and ship full-stack solutions, make sound architectural calls, and stay accountable for quality from first commit to production. Our stack today is Elixir and Phoenix, but we care far more that you can pick up whatever a problem demands and bring strong engineering judgment to it. \n Building in the Age of AI AI has changed what great engineering looks like, and we’ve leaned in. We expect engineers to use AI tools and coding agents fluently to prototype, explore, and accelerate the routine, so that human time goes to what matters: framing the right problem, designing the system, exercising judgment, and verifying that what ships is correct and secure. We’re not looking for people who fear the tools, or who trust them blindly. We’re looking for engineers who wield them with taste. Reach for AI to move faster on scaffolding, refactors, tests, and research, then review every line like you own it, because you do. Spend your judgment where it counts: architecture, product decisions, edge cases, security, and correctness. Help push the practice forward with better tooling, prompts, and workflows that make the whole team more effective. What will you be doing? Own features and problems end to end, from understanding the user’s need through design, delivery, and support. Design and build full-stack solutions for internal and public web applications, making pragmatic architectural decisions along the way. Work at high leverage with AI tools and agents, then review, test, and harden everything you ship. Engage across the full development life cycle: analysis, implementation, integration, testing, debugging, and support. Lead code reviews and raise the bar on quality, mentoring other engineers as you go. Work directly with end users and stakeholders to understand the business problem behind each request. Help set estimates and milestones, balance technical risk against cost and deadlines, and keep work on track. Help drive the future roadmap of the engineering team and AHEAD. What does the ideal candidate look like? 5+ years building and shipping software (7+ preferred), with a track record of owning significant work end to end. Strong engineering judgment. You know what “good” looks like and can tell solid solutions from shaky ones, including code an AI wrote. A product mindset: you start from the user and the outcome, and you sweat the details that make software useful. Fluency with modern AI development tools and coding agents, paired with the discipline to verify, test, and own everything you ship. Stack-agnostic adaptability, so you pick up new languages and frameworks quickly. (Our stack today is Elixir and Phoenix; prior experience is welcome but not required.) A strong foundation in software design, architecture, and the practices that keep systems reliable, including testing, continuous integration, code review, and containerization. Clear, direct communication, so you can express intent precisely to both teammates and the tools you work with. The instincts of a senior engineer: you lead projects, mentor others, and raise the level of the people around you. A drive to keep learning and to help shape how the team builds. Why you'll love it here Join a progressive team that lives on the forefront of technology, where innovation and curiosity are the norm. We invest seriously in modern tooling, including the best AI tools, and we’re always looking for the next approach that makes the team better. Competitive salary, benefits, and an environment where work-life balance is more than just a catchphrase. You’ll play a crucial role in a platform that enterprises rely on to manage their IT, working alongside a talented and motivated team. Make your voice heard AHEAD recognizes the value of diverse perspectives. In our ever-evolving tech landscape, the insights you bring from your own journey can reshape our collective experience. If you’ve had experiences, both good and challenging, with other platforms, technologies, or ways of working, they’ll become an asset here. Your voice will help refine our products and the way we build them, keeping both innovative, intuitive, and industry-leading. Please include links to anything that shows how you build, whether that’s repositories, projects you led, or pull requests that reflect the breadth of your work. If you’ve built something interesting with AI tools or agents, we’d love to see that too. \n $160,000 - $200,000 a year \n The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location. Why AHEAD: Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between. We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning. USA Employment Benefits include: - Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance - 401(k) - Paid company holidays - Paid time off - Paid parental and caregiver leave - Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details. Use of AI: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Notice or contact us at privacy@ahead.com. You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview. Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out.

Lead client consulting engagements and technical delivery teams, manage project scope and execution, advise executives, support sales pursuits, and develop advisory offerings. | Requires 15+ years of senior IT modernization leadership, 8+ years of executive technology consulting, Agile and SDLC familiarity, business measurement knowledge, and an undergraduate degree in a related discipline. | AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. Seasoned customer facing consultant with established leadership skills directing a diverse team of advisory and delivery talent. Provides onsite, hands-on client engagement management which involves the day-to-day running of a client engagement. Helps teams flourish by guiding efforts, directing talents and expanding knowledge and skills to deliver strategic solutions to clients. They are the on-the-ground leaders, directing work efforts, analyzing and reviewing proposals from the team, providing appropriate solutions to problems, and making decisions on the way forward by acting as liaisons between the client and the delivery team. Focused primarily on successful delivery but utilizes their position as a trusted advisor to explore other client needs and working with the team to create proposals to address them. Principal Consultants keep in close contact with clients throughout the duration of the project as part of their official duties. Responsibilities Client Delivery: • Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops • Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed • Lead technical project teams in the delivery of consulting service offerings • Drive and manage the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks/milestone, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered successfully and on time while meeting the business objectives • Breaks down the problem into manageable segments, identifies the factors that affect the problem and decides how to approach the project • Final editing and sign off on project deliverables • Presentation of deliverables to client executive management Business Development: • Support business development pursuits through client discovery meetings that help qualify opportunities and allow the ideation of a strawman proposal • Represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients • Develop and promote relationships with customers and present technical solutions to C-Level executives Practice Development & Thought Leadership: • Develop and enhance AHEAD Advisory services offerings, including consulting offerings and deployment services • Technology thought leader and evangelist • Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of the current and anticipated future state of the IT marketplace including IT trends, technologies, and standards • Mentor to team members Qualifications • Senior-level consulting experience • Minimum 15 years of experience as senior information technology leader overseeing transformative modernization initiatives (e.g., cloud adoption, automation, platform engineering, agile-at-scale adoption) • Strong understanding of business measurement frameworks (e.g., OKRs) • Familiarity with Agile methodologies and Software Development Lifecycle principles • Minimum of 8+ years of executive technology consulting experience • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar discipline • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Demonstrated Business Acumen • Ability to solve complex, abstract problems • Excellent interpersonal skills, good listener, ability to connect with different personalities • Executive presence • Demonstrated experience as a technology change agent • MBA is a plus $220,000 - $360,000 a year The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location. Why AHEAD: Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between. We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning. USA Employment Benefits include: • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • 401(k) • Paid company holidays • Paid time off • Paid parental and caregiver leave • Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details. Use of AI: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Notice or contact us at privacy@ahead.com. You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview. Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.