Senior Manager, Product Development, Global MPS Belt Drive (Moto)

Gates Corporation • Denver, CO

1d • $140,000 - $190,000

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Product Development, Global MPS Belt Drive (Moto) leads Gates’ global product development portfolio and organization. The role sets and executes the new product development strategy, operating model, and multi-year roadmap, and is accountable for prioritization, resources, budgets, governance, risks, and delivery across regions and product platforms. It partners across product management, business development, operations, quality, supply chain, finance, and regional leadership to turn market opportunities into executable programs and deliver against safety, quality, cost, timing, performance, and launch-readiness goals.

The position provides organizational accountability for end-to-end product development, from customer insight and business case through architecture, design, validation, industrialization, launch, and post-launch learning. It promotes sound technical decisions, design excellence, common global engineering practices, capable development resources, and compliance with applicable customer, regulatory, safety, quality-system, and industry requirements. The role balances platform reuse, innovation, technical debt, cost, manufacturability, sustainability, and speed to market.

As a leader of leaders, this position manages a global organization of engineers and technical professionals through engineering managers and senior technical leaders. It develops people leaders and succession pipelines, shapes the organization and workforce plan, and builds an inclusive, high-accountability culture. The role also builds trusted relationships with customers, suppliers, external development partners, and senior leaders to influence direction and strengthen execution.

Requirements

• 12 or more years of progressive engineering and new product development experience, including significant responsibility for complex, cross-functional product portfolios from concept through commercialization.
• 5 or more years of people-leadership experience, including success leading managers or senior technical leaders and developing a multidisciplinary organization of comparable scale.
• Experience leading globally distributed teams through cultural, geographic, functional, and time-zone complexity.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field.
• Experience with relevant automotive, mobility, industrial, or aerospace development and quality systems, such as IATF 16949, APQP, PPAP, ISO 9001, or AS9100.
• Record of improving engineering execution, organizational capability, speed to market, and measurable product or business outcomes.
• Capability in organizational design, delegation through managers, succession planning, performance management, coaching, and building diverse global teams.
• Strong command of product development systems, technical risk management, portfolio governance, resource planning, and industrialization or launch readiness.
• Financial and commercial acumen to evaluate business cases, manage operating and project budgets, make investment tradeoffs, and connect technical outcomes to value creation.
• Ability to simplify complex issues, frame options and recommendations, and communicate with executive, customer, technical, and operational audiences.
• Ability to influence across organizational boundaries, resolve conflict, and align global teams, suppliers, and partners around shared outcomes.
• Data-driven approach to performance management and continuous improvement, including metrics, root-cause analysis, and operating reviews.
• Commitment to safety, ethics, quality, inclusion, and customer success.

Nice To Haves

• Personal and/or professional experience in motorcycle, powersports, or scooter applications.
• Advanced technical degree or MBA.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute the global new product development strategy, operating model, and multi-year roadmap in alignment with business, technology, and customer priorities.
• Own the global development portfolio, including prioritization, sequencing, resource allocation, budgets, capacity, dependencies, and delivery commitments across regions and product platforms.
• Establish portfolio and stage-gate governance and lead executive portfolio reviews with concise updates on performance, tradeoffs, risks, mitigation plans, and business outcomes.
• Partner with Product Management, Business Development, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and regional leaders to convert market opportunities into product and technology programs.
• Drive delivery against safety, quality, cost, timing, performance, and launch-readiness targets while managing cross-program dependencies and enterprise risks.
• Define and monitor portfolio metrics, including development cycle time, milestone attainment, resource utilization, technical risk retirement, product cost, quality, and launch performance.
• Champion continuous improvement, common global processes, digital tools, and lessons learned.
• Provide organizational accountability for end-to-end new product development, from customer insight and business case through launch and post-launch learning.
• Ensure effective requirements management, systems engineering, design reviews, DFMEA, DVP&R, design for manufacturability, and verification and validation.
• Align global engineering teams, manufacturing sites, laboratories, suppliers, and external partners around common architectures, standards, interfaces, and development plans.
• Own development capability and capacity planning, including make-versus-buy decisions, technical partnerships, supplier engagement, prototype strategy, test capability, and capital requirements.
• Balance platform reuse, innovation, technical debt, product cost, manufacturability, sustainability, and speed to market.
• Ensure products and development practices comply with applicable customer, regulatory, safety, quality-system, and industry requirements across served regions.
• Lead a global organization of engineers and technical professionals through engineering managers and senior technical leaders, clarifying accountability, decision rights, and interfaces.
• Select, coach, and develop people leaders; set expectations; conduct succession and talent reviews; and build leadership and technical talent pipelines.
• Create an inclusive, high-accountability engineering culture promoting collaboration, constructive challenge, disciplined problem solving, innovation, and organizational learning.
• Translate enterprise strategy into organizational goals and ensure managers cascade priorities, measures, and performance expectations.
• Shape the global organization, workforce plan, location strategy, capability roadmap, and resource model.
• Model enterprise leadership and transparent communication; resolve cross-functional conflict and make timely decisions amid ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Build relationships with customers, suppliers, external development partners, and senior leaders to strengthen execution and influence strategic direction.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus other voluntary benefit options; benefits begin on the first day of the month immediately following the date of hire.
• Three or two weeks of paid vacation, accrued, plus 11 holidays (9 scheduled and 2 floating) and 8 sick days.
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution and an additional 3% company match.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Bonus eligibility.

What This Job Offers

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