The Managing Director (MD) – India Operations leads the India operations of UEI. The role is focused on building and scaling high-performance product and engineering teams, driving innovation, ensuring strong governance, and aligning India’s product development capabilities with the company’s global product strategy.

This is a product-centric leadership role with full responsibility for operational oversight, talent strategy, regulatory compliance, and financial performance of the Indian entity.

The MD-India Operations will report to the Global Sr. VP-Engineering.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership

Define and execute India’s strategy as a part of Global product development organization
Align engineering and project roadmaps with global business priorities
Drive long-term capability building in areas such as platform architecture, AI/ML, cloud-native systems, and product scalability
Provide strategic insights on technology trends, talent markets, and innovation opportunities in India

Product & Engineering Leadership

- Oversee end-to-end project development lifecycle
- Ensure high standards of architecture, scalability, performance, and reliability
- Drive technical excellence, code quality, and secure development practices
- Collaborate with global Product/Project Management to translate business needs into execution
- - Build India as a center of excellence for product development
  - Sponsor R&D initiatives and emerging technology exploration
  - Strengthen platform capabilities, cloud optimization, and product modernization
  - Encourage IP creation, patents, and differentiated product capabilities
  - - Own India entity financial performance
    - Develop and manage annual budgets and operating plans
    - Ensure cost optimization without compromising on productivity and product quality
    - Align financial reporting with US parent company requirements
    - - Oversee statutory audits, filings, and board governance processes
      - Act as Director on the Board of the Indian subsidiary
      - Oversight of all other support functions to ensure business continuity
      - Build and retain high-caliber engineering and product teams
        
        Develop succession plans and leadership bench strength
        
        Foster a product-driven, innovation-first culture
        
        Ensure alignment with global corporate values and performance standards
        
        Promote diversity, inclusion, and ethical conduct
        
        Cross-Border Alignment
        
        Serve as primary liaison between India operations and other UEI locations, including US headquarters
        
        Ensure consistent execution of global product strategy
        
        Maintain transparency in performance reporting and risk management
        
        Drive strong collaboration across distributed global teams
        
        Functional Responsibilities
        
        Responsible for directly managing SQA (SW development process definition and compliance team), IVV (Independent testing team), and Advance Tech (Platform development team)
        
        Responsible for directly managing China SW team, providing support for dedicated, preset and Aircon RCU SW development. Also providing support for production programming setup
        
        Responsible for Japan outsource SW development team to support projects in Japan (Daikin, Mitsubishi). This team also provides design review support with customers in Japan
        
        Responsible for oversight to Firmware, Data Management, QS Cloud and QS SDK teams.
        
        Responsible for oversight to support teams (HR, Finance, IT and Facilities)
        
        Make In India Initiative
        
        Provide local management oversight to Make in India projects
        
        Help with identifying and developing local suppliers and relationship building with R&D teams of the customer

Qualification / skills:

BE/BTech/MTech/MS in ECE/EEE/Telecom/Computer Science. An MBA will be desirable.
20+ years of overall experience, with 10+ years of technical management and people management, with 10+ years in senior leadership roles managing large engineering organizations including operations and budget management

Proven experience in scaling and managing Embedded software products development, process definition and compliance and aligning with industry trends
Good understanding of cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and secure development
Ability to advise others and manage divergent interests and perspectives
Experience working in a global, cross-border product organization
Strong product and platform mindset
Deep engineering credibility
Strategic and systems thinking
Financial discipline
Governance orientation
High integrity and accountability
Ability to scale teams and manage complexity
Ability to create plans to align technical issues with business strategy
Advanced people management skills.

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Managing Director - India Operations

This is a product-centric leadership role with full responsibility for operational oversight, talent strategy, regulatory compliance, and financial performance of the Indian entity.

The MD-India Operations will report to the Global Sr. VP-Engineering.

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This is a product-centric leadership role with full responsibility for operational oversight, talent strategy, regulatory compliance, and financial performance of the Indian entity.

The MD-India Operations will report to the Global Sr. VP-Engineering.

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