Engineering Director - Design

Polaris Inc. • Wyoming, WY

1d • $182,000 - $239,000

About The Position

The Director, Design Engineering provides strategic, technical, and organizational leadership for vehicle design engineering. The role develops engineering capabilities, ensures strong product execution, and builds a high-performing organization that delivers innovative, robust, manufacturable, and cost-effective vehicle solutions. The Director partners across Engineering, Product, Manufacturing, Quality, Sourcing, and other functions to translate product and vehicle requirements into successful designs from concept through production.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of progressive engineering or product development experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams and complex technical programs.
• Strong understanding of product development from concept through production.
• Experience making technical decisions that balance performance, cost, quality, timing, and manufacturability.
• Strong cross-functional leadership, communication, and organizational skills.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Engineering or Business.
• Automotive, powersports, transportation, or related product development experience.
• Experience leading leaders and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience developing engineering capabilities, standards, processes, and technical talent.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical leadership for design engineering teams and capabilities.
• Lead development and execution of vehicle systems, structures, and components from concept through production.
• Establish engineering standards, processes, tools, and best practices to improve design quality and maturity.
• Ensure engineering solutions meet performance, quality, cost, timing, manufacturability, and customer requirements.
• Partner with vehicle architecture, program, manufacturing, validation, and other cross-functional teams to resolve technical issues and deliver successful programs.
• Drive continuous improvement, innovation, design reuse, and increased use of digital engineering tools and methods.
• Identify and proactively address technical, resource, and capability risks.
• Build, develop, and retain a strong engineering organization, including developing leaders and technical talent.
• Establish clear accountability and foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, innovation, and execution.
• Support long-term engineering strategy, organizational capability development, and workforce planning.

Benefits

• Market-leading profit-sharing plan.
• Company contributions to the Employee Stock Ownership Plan.
• Discounted employee stock purchases.
• 401(k) matching contribution.
• Financial wellness education and consultation.
• Health insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Wellness programs.
• Paid time off.
• Gym and personal training reimbursement.
• Life insurance.
• Disability offerings.
• Paid volunteer time off through Polaris Gives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director