Director of Engineering - Manufacturing

For over 40 years, Array Marketing has been a global leader in the retail display and in-store merchandising services industry. Global brands like Estée Lauder, Sephora, L'Oreal and Samsung to name a few, rely on our team of more than 2,000 employees around the world, to create great retail experiences by bringing their visions to life.

We are committed to building on more than four decades of strength, deep industry knowledge, and design innovation to accelerate our growth and serve our customers even better than before.

As we continue to expand around the world, we are looking for critical thinkers who are data driven, have a strong work ethic and care about best practices and customer outcomes to help us carry out our vision.

Join Array to make a mark on our business and grow your career.

We are hiring a Director of Engineering to lead, scale, and shape the global direction of engineering across a distributed organization spanning North America and offshore teams. You will oversee Development, Detailing, and Engineering functions, ensuring alignment between global strategy and regional execution. You will be accountable for establishing best-in-class engineering standards, systems, governance models, and processes that improve speed, cost, quality, and scalability.

This is a highly visible leadership role within a fast-moving product development environment. We are looking for a hands‑on engineering leader who thrives in agile manufacturing environments and can balance technical depth with strong people leadership, operational discipline, and executive presence.

• Ownership
  . This is an opportunity to lead and grow an engineering function that is actively taking shape. Leveraging your leadership to unite and inspire teams across the organization, you will drive modernization initiatives across engineering systems, automation, AI‑enabled technologies, and operational workflows — playing a key role in shaping the future of engineering
• Impact. The work we do and the products we build are critical to helping our clients engage with their buyers and create great experiences. As the Director of Engineering, you will play a key role in delivering value and driving success for the company, its employees and our end customers. You will have the opportunity to influence engineering strategy across multiple regions, strengthen leadership capability within the team, and build scalable engineering practices that support Array’s continued growth.

• Lead, develop and mentor all direct reports. You will conduct performance management cycles with clear expectations, structured feedback, and individualized development plans, while building a strong leadership bench through succession planning and coaching future managers and technical leaders. You will bring a visible, hands‑on leadership style that fosters accountability, engagement, collaboration, and strong cross‑functional relationships across the business.
• Work collaboratively across teams. Working directly with the Creative Design Department, Project Managers, Manufacturing Engineering, and the Production Teams, you will establish expectations and deliverables on assigned projects, manage the overall schedule of deliverables for the entire team and direct and oversee all phases of engineering development. You will also partner with Commercial Operations, Estimating, and Prototyping teams, ensuring clear accountability across functions and alignment of engineering outputs to business priorities.
• Nurture a growth mindset. You will foster a culture of innovative thinking and creative exploration, balanced with a commitment to practicality and delivering solutions that align with the project's objectives.
• Develop a long‑term strategic and visionary direction for the engineering department. You will implement initiatives aimed at enhancing the cost‑effectiveness of engineering operations while upholding quality standards. This includes:
  Establishing global engineering standards, governance models, and best practices
• Driving enterprise‑wide engineering excellence initiatives (cost, speed‑to‑market, quality)
• Leading engineering…