Engineering Operations Execution Lead

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The Role Engineering Operations is building a common operating system for how Engineering plans, executes, measures, and continuously improves its work.

We are looking for an Engineering Operations Execution Lead to drive execution across our engineering portfolio. You will lead complex, cross-domain initiatives, run key planning and portfolio mechanisms, and create clear visibility into dependencies, risks, decisions, and outcomes.

A key part of the role is scaling execution through AI-enabled and agentic project management—using agents to manage routine coordination and lower-complexity initiatives so human program leadership can focus on ambiguity, critical decisions, and high-consequence work.

What You’ll DoDrive Engineering Execution
· Lead complex, cross-domain engineering initiatives from definition through delivery.
· Establish clear outcomes, ownership, milestones, dependencies, risks, and decision points.
· Drive resolution of execution gaps and escalate issues requiring leadership decisions.
· Run operating cadences that focus leaders on decisions, exceptions, and tradeoffs—not status collection.
· Apply the appropriate level of rigor based on technical complexity, risk, and mission consequence.

Scale Execution with AI
· Establish and operate an agentic project-management model for lower-complexity engineering initiatives.
· Determine which work requires human program leadership and which can be effectively managed through agents.
· Use agents to automate routine coordination, status synthesis, milestone tracking, evidence collection, and risk identification.
· Define escalation paths and human-in-the-loop controls for ambiguity, exceptions, and consequential decisions.
· Partner with the Agentic Engineering Lead to improve agent capabilities, context, and integration with Engineering systems of record.
· Measure whether agentic project management is increasing execution coverage while reducing administrative burden.

Operate the Engineering Portfolio
· Run quarterly engineering planning and portfolio operating cadences.
· Maintain visibility into initiative health, cross-team dependencies, resource conflicts, and delivery risks.
· Partner with Product Operations and Engineering leaders on roadmap alignment and execution.
· Create concise, trustworthy portfolio views that allow leaders to quickly identify where intervention is needed.
· Improve the quality of execution data in Engineering’s authoritative systems of record.

Continuously Improve
· Identify recurring execution friction and translate it into improvements to the Engineering operating model.
· Reduce manual coordination, reporting, and unnecessary ceremony.
· Partner with the Engineering Operations Principal on standards, governance, and operating-model improvements.
· Drive adoption and feedback loops across Engineering.

What We’re Looking For
· Significant experience leading complex technical programs across multiple engineering teams or domains.
· Strong technical…