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About Co Lab
At CoLab, we help mechanical engineering teams bring life‑changing products to market years sooner.
CoLab is a cloud‑based platform for engineering design review. We make it easy for subject matter experts (SMEs) across your business to access, evaluate, and comment on 2D drawings and 3D models. Our built‑in AI peer checker, Auto Review, scans designs for common errors or non‑compliance with your standards and guidelines. Auto Review creates markups and comments on your files, in context – just like a human checker.
With CoLab, human SMEs and AI work together to help you make better decisions and improve designs faster. We automatically capture knowledge from across your global business that would otherwise be buried in emails, spreadsheets, slide decks, and unknown locations in SharePoint or PLM. Then, we make sure every lesson learned and every design guideline is applied exactly when it matters.
Companies like Johnson Controls, Komatsu, Schaeffler, and Polaris have launched products 40% faster, cut BOM costs by 50%, and reduced quality escapes by 15% in one year.
About
The Role
We're hiring a Director of Engineering to own several critical areas of Product Development within CoLab, including:
CAD and PLM Integrations
Productivity Tool Integrations
CAD Visualization Capabilities
Etc
In this role you will lead the Engineering Managers for several product development teams, set a clear technical and execution strategy, and ensure we reliably ship high‑quality capabilities that meet enterprise expectations for security, performance, and maintainability.
You will operate as a senior people‑and‑delivery leader: aligning product and engineering priorities, translating strategy into roadmaps and execution plans, building strong engineering management practices, and strengthening cross‑functional partnerships across Product, Design, Customer/Implementation, Security, and other engineering teams.
You will also be in the details with the team, working alongside them to solve problems and remove blockers. You’ll also interface directly with customers, particularly in the context of CAD/PLM integration deployments and troubleshooting.
Job Responsibilities
Own outcomes for several product development teams: delivery predictability, quality, uptime/reliability (where applicable), and customer impact
Support Engineering Managers in working with Product and Design to define strategy and roadmaps, and convert them into sequenced execution plans with clear milestones, risks, and resourcing
Continuously improve operating rhythms (planning, prioritization, retros, on‑call/incident practices as applicable, release management, etc) that work best for each team
Drive effective cross‑team coordination, especially where the teams intersect with core platform/infra, security, and customer implementations
Lead, coach, and develop the Engineering Managers for several teams; set expectations for high‑quality management, planning, and technical leadership
Support hiring and team design across both orgs (headcount planning, role definitions, leveling, interview loops, onboarding)
Manage performance effectively and fairly: goal‑setting, feedback, growth plans, and recognition
Guide technical strategy for integrations and viewing capabilities, balancing short‑term delivery needs with long‑term platform health. Set and uphold technical standards across both domains: architecture consistency, API/design patterns, security and privacy expectations, observability, and maintainability
Act as an escalation point for complex technical and delivery issues, unblocking teams while empowering EMs and senior engineers
Partner with Customer‑facing teams (e.g., implementations, support, solutions) to ensure enterprise requirements are met and delivery aligns with customer timelines.
Communicate progress and tradeoffs clearly to the VP Engineering and leadership peers: status, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans
Qualifications
8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years overseeing engineering managers and multiple teams
Demonstrated success owning delivery for customer‑facing product teams with meaningful dependencies and…
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