Senior Global Process Owner – Design to Launch

Bose Corporation•Atlanta, GA

3d•$152,800 - $210,100

About The Position

Bose Corporation is seeking a Senior Global Process Owner for its enterprise Design to Launch (D2L) process. D2L converts customer and market needs into designed, validated, manufacturable, serviceable, and commercially launched products and experiences. The role is accountable for the effectiveness of this end-to-end process across Bose—not for individual products or programs—and owns its process architecture, governance, decision framework, performance system, data requirements, and transformation roadmap. The position will establish and improve a consistent global process that helps Bose launch products faster and more predictably, with stronger economics and higher quality. It requires broad experience in product creation, enterprise process ownership, integrated hardware and software development, financial governance, product data and systems, and external manufacturing and development ecosystems. The role will influence senior stakeholders and lead enterprise-wide change across a complex global organization. The hiring range for the primary work location in Framingham, Massachusetts is $152,800–$210,100. Ranges may vary at other Bose locations. Bose also offers bonus programs, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, wellbeing perks, and an employee discount.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Product Development, Business, Operations, Information Systems, or a related field.
At least 10 years of experience in technology product development, engineering, program or product management, operations, or enterprise process leadership.
Strong understanding of integrated hardware/software product development, from requirements through development, validation, industrialization, launch, and lifecycle management.
Experience with custom and platform-based product development models.
Experience with stage-gate development, business cases, financial governance, and product economics.
Experience working across internal development teams, suppliers, external partners, and contract manufacturers.
Proven experience designing, governing, or transforming complex enterprise processes and driving continuous improvement.
Demonstrated ability to influence senior cross-functional leaders and drive change within a global matrixed organization.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree preferred.
Experience in consumer electronics, audio technology, connected devices, or similar complex hardware/software products is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Own the global D2L process architecture, standards, governance, performance model, and transformation roadmap.
Define the end-to-end process from product opportunity and requirements through development, validation, industrialization, launch, and lifecycle management.
Establish roles, decision rights, stage gates, milestones, maturity criteria, and escalation paths.
Balance enterprise standards with flexibility based on product type, complexity, investment, and risk.
Integrate stage-gate and financial reviews throughout the product development lifecycle.
Partner with Finance, Product, Engineering, and Operations to establish maturity expectations and financial criteria for key decision points.
Ensure business cases evolve throughout development to reflect investment, product cost, margin, revenue, timing, and risk.
Improve visibility into the financial impact of requirements changes, rework, delays, and complexity.
Ensure D2L supports custom, platform-based, and hybrid product development models.
Incorporate platform maturity, technology readiness, reuse opportunities, and dependencies into appropriate decision points.
Establish common processes and expectations across internal teams, external development partners, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.
Define enterprise KPIs for development speed, predictability, quality, investment effectiveness, cost, and launch readiness.
Identify and address systemic causes of rework, late requirements changes, schedule instability, and downstream quality or manufacturing issues.
Lead continuous improvement and end-to-end redesign of the D2L process using data and performance insights.
Partner with Technology, Data, Engineering Systems, and functional teams to ensure technology supports the target D2L process.
Enable integration across PLM, ALM, requirements management, ERP, quality, sourcing, analytics, and collaboration platforms.
Establish common launch-readiness criteria across Product, Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply, Service, Marketing, Sales, and channel organizations.
Strengthen the transition from development into scaled production, commercialization, and lifecycle management.
Incorporate post-launch quality, consumer, financial, manufacturing, and partner performance into continuous process improvement.
Lead adoption of D2L standards and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders across the global organization.