Executive Director, System Software Development

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is seeking an Executive Director, Systems Software Development to lead the strategy, development, delivery, quality, productivity, and lifecycle support of the systems software technologies that enable Toshiba's global retail hardware platforms. This executive leader will direct a global, multi-level engineering organization responsible for Linux, SKY, and Android operating system solutions;
Open Systems drivers; device drivers and utilities; diagnostics; hardware SDKs; system images and preloads; and supporting technologies required across Toshiba's retail hardware portfolio.

The Executive Director will establish the technical and organizational strategy for Systems Software Development while ensuring predictable execution across new product development, software releases, customer deployments, and lifecycle support. A key expectation is to transform engineering productivity through automation, CI/CD, modern software development practices, and the full implementation and adoption of AI-enabled engineering capabilities throughout the software development lifecycle.

• 15+ years of progressive software, systems software, embedded software, or related product development experience.
• 10+ years of technical and organizational leadership experience with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in an executive or senior executive engineering leadership role, including responsibility for managers, senior technical leaders, and complex development organizations.
• Significant experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams and organizations.
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex commercial software products through the complete development lifecycle.
• Strong technical understanding of operating systems, device drivers, hardware/software interfaces, diagnostics, SDKs, and system-level software.
• Experience leading software development requiring close integration between hardware and software.
• Demonstrated ability to establish technology strategy and translate strategy into executable product and engineering roadmaps.
• Proven experience driving measurable improvements in engineering productivity, development cycle time, quality, and speed of execution.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and scaling development automation, automated testing, Dev Ops, and CI/CD practices across a software engineering organization.
• Demonstrated experience leading implementation and organizational adoption of AI-enabled engineering capabilities beyond experimentation and into production engineering workflows.
• Proven ability to establish measurable AI adoption, productivity, quality, and execution objectives and drive results.
• Experience leading critical customer and field issue resolution across multiple technical and business organizations.
• Experience managing complex development portfolios involving competing priorities, resource constraints, and customer commitments.
• Proven ability to build, develop, and lead high-performing engineering organizations.
• Strong executive communication skills with experience presenting technical strategy, business tradeoffs, risks, investments, and recommendations to senior leadership.

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or a Master of Business Administration (MBA).
• Executive leadership experience within a global technology, software, hardware, or product development organization.
• Experience developing commercial systems software for retail, Point-of-Sale, embedded, or edge-computing environments.
• Deep knowledge of Linux and Android operating system environments.
• Experience with proprietary or specialized operating system platforms.
• Experience developing and supporting device drivers, diagnostics, SDKs, utilities, and system images.
• Experience managing software across multiple hardware generations and extended product life cycles.
• Knowledge of software security, vulnerability management, and secure development practices.
• Experience leading large-scale engineering transformation involving AI, automation, Dev Ops, CI/CD, test automation, and engineering productivity.
• Experience with Agile development, modern software engineering tool chains, configuration management, and automated build, test, and release environments.
• Experience managing global engineering organizations and…