Wolters Kluwer DXG U.S., Inc.

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We are hiring an Associate Director, Product Software Engineering to lead multiple engineering teams responsible for building, modernizing, and operating business-critical customer and internal applications across FCC CLC. This leader will translate product and business priorities into executable engineering strategies, establish clear accountability for delivery and quality, and build durable teams capable of delivering measurable customer outcomes. The role combines strategic leadership with strong technical judgment. The Associate Director will partner with Product Management, Architecture, Quality Engineering, UX, Operations, Security, and other technology leaders to guide initiatives from initial intent through specification, architecture, implementation, validation, deployment, and production operation. The leader will enforce Spec-Driven Development (SDD) and Agentic Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) practices to improve delivery speed, quality, traceability, and engineering effectiveness. The role will also build and lead AI engineering capability, including hiring, managing, coaching, and mentoring AI engineers responsible for agentic product workflows. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Lead multiple software engineering teams and establish clear goals, operating rhythms, ownership boundaries, and measurable outcomes. Translate portfolio strategy and product priorities into engineering roadmaps, staffing plans, delivery commitments, and technical investment decisions. Make critical decisions regarding prioritization, resource allocation, technical direction, delivery risk, and sequencing across concurrent initiatives. Build an engineering culture grounded in customer focus, accountability, psychological safety, technical excellence, and continuous improvement. Coach engineering managers, technical leads, AI engineers, and senior software engineers; strengthen succession plans and create opportunities for career growth. Hire, manage, coach, and mentor AI engineers, building the specialized skills and delivery practices needed to develop reliable agentic product capabilities. Enforce Spec-Driven Development (SDD) and Agentic Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) practices, including reusable specifications, explicit acceptance criteria, evaluation strategies, and end-to-end traceability. Ensure architecture, security, privacy, accessibility, resilience, scalability, observability, and supportability are considered throughout the lifecycle. Ensure effective DevOps practices across CI/CD, IaC, hands-free deployments, telemetry, monitoring, and alerting, using DORA and operational metrics to drive delivery and production excellence. Establish quality as a shared accountability across engineering and quality functions, with appropriate automation, release criteria, and production validation. Improve engineering flow by identifying and removing systemic blockers, reducing avoidable handoffs, and strengthening cross-team dependency management. Use delivery, quality, reliability, customer, and engineering-effectiveness measures to identify trends and drive corrective action. Support production operations, incident response, root-cause analysis, and remediation of recurring reliability or quality issues. JOB QUALIFICATIONS Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Master’s degree in a relevant technical or business discipline is preferred. Required Experience / Skills: 10+ years of significant experience leading software engineering organizations responsible for enterprise or commercial software products. 1+ years of hands-on experience applying Agentic Product Development Lifecycle and Spec-Driven Development to product delivery. 1+ years of hands-on experience leading the development of agentic product workflows, including evaluation frameworks, context engineering, learning and feedback loops, end-to-end traceability, and architecture approaches that optimize token consumption and operating cost. Demonstrated experience hiring, managing, coaching, and mentoring AI engineers and building high-performing teams capable of delivering reliable AI-enabled product capabilities. Demonstrated experience managing managers or multiple engineering teams in a matrixed, globally distributed environment. Experience delivering and operating native, highly available, secure, and business-critical cloud software. Experience guiding modernization of legacy applications while sustaining production operations and customer commitments. Experience using metrics and evidence to improve delivery predictability, quality, reliability, and engineering effectiveness. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Strong people leadership, organizational design, coaching, conflict resolution, and talent-development capabilities. Strong technical judgment with the ability to challenge assumptions and facilitate sound architecture and engineering decisions. Ability to connect customer and business outcomes to technology strategy, delivery priorities, and investment choices. Executive-level communication and the ability to influence across Product, Engineering, Operations, Security, and business leadership. Ability to lead through ambiguity, establish structure, and make timely decisions using incomplete information. Commitment to inclusive leadership, use of AI, continuous learning, and responsible delivery. Our Interview Practices To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process. Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process. Compensation: $144,500.00 - $258,300.00 USD This role is eligible for Bonus. Compensation range listed is based on primary location of the position. Actual base salary offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience and actual hiring location. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific offer for the job location during the hiring process. Additional Information: Wolters Kluwer offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including but not limited to: Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available upon request. If making a difference matters to you, then you matter to us. Join us, at Wolters Kluwer, and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day. We’re innovators with impact. We provide expert software and information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most. You’ll make a real difference in the lives of millions of people. Together with our customers, we help to advance sustainability, health, justice, prosperity, and commerce around the world. You can thrive at Wolters Kluwer, where diversity is core to our collective strength and high performance. Be your unique self, share your creative ideas, do your best work, and take time to grow in our caring and inclusive culture where you can belong. Wolters Kluwer reported 2025 annual revenues of €6.1 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs more than 21,000 people worldwide. Our customers work in industries that impact the lives of millions of people every single day. Our mission is to empower our professional customers with the AI-powered solutions they need to make critical decisions, achieve successful outcomes, and increase productivity. We deliver trusted, AI-powered expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge, proprietary content, and advanced technology to provide expert-validated insights, automate workflows, and drive better outcomes. Today, nearly 70% of our digital revenues come from AI-powered solutions, reflecting our strategic focus on embedding AI into professional workflows and delivering measurable productivity gains. We are committed to helping professionals navigate complexity, improve the way they work, and solve critical challenges through cloud-based, AI-powered platforms that integrate seamlessly into their workflows and ecosystems. Our solutions are designed to deliver impact when it matters most, especially in high-stakes environments where accuracy and trust are essential. With a nearly 190-year legacy, Wolters Kluwer continues to evolve its portfolio of digital solutions and services to meet the changing needs of professionals worldwide, enabling them to work faster, make smarter decisions, and deliver better outcomes. For more information about our solutions and organization, visit www.wolterskluwer.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook. Wolters Kluwer has a dedicated team of experienced talent acquisition professionals who are ready to hear what makes you tick and share how Wolters Kluwer can help you achieve your goals and ambitions. Here Rasi Fawaz shares some tips on what recruiters are looking for on a resume. As a global organization, we recognize that solving a wide range of complex problems requires diverse perspectives and innovative thinking. We know that bringing our best to our customers, communities, and other key stakeholders requires a highly engaged and talented workforce – one that represents the diversity of those we serve and the communities where we live and work. We aim to provide a welcoming environment and equitable opportunities for all employees regardless of background, nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or religion. This principle is ingrained in our company values and articulated in our Code of Business Ethics. At Wolters Kluwer, you’ll feel valued for your contributions, and you’ll know that your health, safety, and well-being are important to us. Our well-being benefits provide tools, programs, and resources to help our diverse employees feel healthy, happy, safe, and prosperous. Our global Together we thrive well-being program reflects our commitment to supporting colleagues across physical, mental, social, and financial well-being. That commitment has been recognized externally through Ragan’s Top Places to Work for Employee Wellbeing: Large Organization in 2024. More recently, Wolters Kluwer was recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Large Employers 2026 and America’s Best Employers for Engineers 2026. In 2025, Wolters Kluwer was also recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers for Women. To ensure we continue to drive innovation that enables us to develop products and services to best serve our customers, we cultivate a workplace culture rooted in mutual respect, bringing forward insights from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We are also committed to complying with laws requiring equal opportunity in hiring, promotion, and other employment decisions. 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