Director, Product Execution Leadership

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives. This role is a hybrid position Some roles require an office while others may be done remotely. This position is considered hybrid, allowing for a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration. Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of our Boston or Glasgow, Scotland office and should expect to be in office 2 to 3 days per week in order to collaborate with partners and key stakeholders. Sonos is on a journey to be the most sought-after audio brand in the world. Our brand experience is changing the way people listen to music, and our mission is to bring that experience to every modern music lover around the globe. We design and deliver amazing, uniquely differentiated acoustic hardware and we build the high-performance operations teams needed to bring those products to the world. We are looking for a transformational operations leader to build and lead our newly formed Product Execution Leader (PEL) team. The PEL role unifies what were previously two distinct functions the Product Realization Leader (PRL) and the Product Program Manager / Leader (PPM/PPL) into a single point of accountability for delivering Sonos products from Exploration to GA (general availability).  The individual will be the leader responsible for all product execution at Sonos from Product Exploration through General Availability (GA) working closely with the Product Owner and the Product Core Team. Further, this leader will play a key role in representing Global Operations leadership to the Product  Core Team on key sourcing key sourcing strategies, manufacturing locations, technology and NPI cost. This is a high-visibility leadership function. The Director will build, develop, and continuously improve a team of PELs who each own both the operations execution engine and the program management drumbeat of an NPI program. The Director will also play a key role in developing, influencing, and aligning Sonos’ longer-term manufacturing, sourcing, and technology strategies across the operations organizations. What You’ll Do Build & Develop the PEL Team Build, hire, develop, and manage a team of high-performance Product Execution Leaders who lead cross-functional core teams of sourcing, product and process engineering, supply base engineering, quality, tooling, supply planning, logistics, trade compliance and factory program management from exploration through mass production. Build, hire, develop and manage a team of Product introduction managers who leads Process engineers, test engineers, quality engineers, CM sourcing managers, etc to plan and execute all NPI builds in…