Managing Director - India Operations

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

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• 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

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• 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

• Innovation & Technology Direction

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• 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

• Financial & Operational Management

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• 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

• Ensure Governance & Regulatory Compliance w.r.t financial and labor compliances.

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• 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

• Talent & Culture Leadership

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.