Director of Engineering Excellence (AI)

Location: Tampere, Finland; other locations include Gothenburg, Raisio, Karlstad, Vantaa, Sundsvall, Ulvila, and Copenhagen.

Company

hirify.global delivers technologies, services, automation, and flow control solutions to process industries worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead the Engineering Excellence function and translate business priorities into development initiatives and measurable outcomes.
• Provide leadership, coaching, competence development, prioritization, and resource planning for the Engineering Excellence team.
• Develop engineering processes, performance metrics, improvement activities, and common ways of working.
• Coordinate engineering, data, and document management tools, solutions, governance, and digital development initiatives.
• Own and maintain the Global Engineering AI roadmap, connecting business priorities with practical engineering use cases.
• Coordinate collaboration across engineering, business, technology, data, product management, and IT organizations while driving adoption and measurable business impact.

Requirements

• University degree in Engineering, Technology, Information Management, or another relevant field.
• Several years of experience in engineering leadership, engineering development, digital transformation, or a similar global function.
• Proven people leadership experience, including coaching, competence development, prioritization, and resource planning.
• Strong understanding of engineering processes, engineering data, document management, and digital solutions.
• Experience developing strategies, roadmaps, governance models, portfolios, and performance indicators.
• Understanding of AI opportunities within engineering and experience translating technology possibilities into business value.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills across business, engineering, technology, and IT organizations.
• Ability to drive change, build alignment, and deliver measurable results.
• Fluent written and spoken English required.

Nice to have

• Experience from process industries, project-based engineering organizations, product management, or large-scale transformation programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to shape engineering capabilities and ways of working across a global technology company.
• Work at the intersection of engineering, digitalization, data, and AI while supporting current business performance.
• Collaboration with experienced professionals across hirify.global.
• Respectful and inclusive environment welcoming applicants from all backgrounds.