Technical Director of Automation Business Unit

Technical Director of Automation Business Unit / About position

Your mission will be to grow the automation business of Photoneo. While collaborating with the respective sales director, you will be empowered to set the right direction and right resources to achieve relevant milestones. You will influence the decision-making process related to product strategies and the way to the market strategy.

A short-term goal for this year is to sustain a portfolio and processes in respective teams.

A mid-term mission for 2022 is to create and implement a unique way to the market strategy. This includes the selection of the target customer base, use cases, and product adoption.

A long-term goal is to become a leader in vision-guided robotics on the WW level. The product in scope is now Bin Picking Studio, a web-based application integrated as a 3rd party option for the majority of available robotic brands.

Core responsibilities:
People:

• Manage several teams among various operations
• Implement a people-oriented management system
• Empower team leaders and team members within the area of their responsibilities and career goals
• Assign SMART targets for team members
• Evaluate the team
• Lead regular face to face meetings
• Motivate
• Do recruitment and compensation

Product:

• Lead strategy decisions and execution to outperform the competition
• Product design
• Product Overview
• Propose a new functionality based on customer needs
• Operations
• Establish operational excellence in respective areas as project delivery and customer service
• Increase customer satisfaction with service and support
• Cross-departmental communication
• Continue with improvement
• Support organizational budgeting processes
• Optimize costs
• Software engineering
• High-level understanding of software engineering workflows and processes
• Business development
• Attend customer on-site meetings
• Contribute to marketing activities such as trade shows, webinars, and articles