Engineering Head, India Site Head

Role & Responsibilities

• Build and scale the India Engineering organization as a key part of global R&D and product innovation.
• Lead engineering teams through strong senior managers and technical leaders.
• Partner with US-based Engineering, Product and AI leadership on strategy, architecture and execution.
• Drive products from development to customer adoption and scale.
• Provide technical direction across software, cloud, data and AI.
• Own execution, engineering quality, reliability and operational excellence.
• Build a high-performance culture focused on ownership, innovation and customer impact.

Preferred Candidate Profile

• 18+ years of engineering/technology experience with significant leadership experience.
• Experience as Head/VP/Director of Engineering, Site Leader or equivalent.
• US experience MANDATORY, including meaningful exposure to US teams and stakeholders.
• Startup experience at scale MANDATORY, with experience building substantial products and achieving customer, product and revenue scale.
• Experience across both large organizations and high-growth startups/scale-ups.
• Strong software engineering and product architecture foundation.
• Practical exposure to AI, LLMs, Generative AI and/or agentic systems.
• Proven ability to build teams, develop leaders and handle complex people situations.
• Strong product/business judgment and global communication skills.
• Experience scaling an India R&D / Product Engineering organization is highly relevant.