[Hiring] Senior Director, Account Engineering @Celestica International LP

Role Description

The role demands a highly accomplished, business-savvy, and forward-thinking Senior Account Engineering Director to take complete technical and strategic ownership of a critical, high-revenue customer engagement. This position requires a unique blend of deep software engineering mastery, executive-level customer management, and a commercial mindset to drive technical innovation, product alignment, and account growth.

As the primary technical anchor for this strategic account, you will be fully accountable for the customer’s engineering success, including continuous alignment on technical advances, product roadmaps, engineering metrics, and overall quality execution. To succeed, you must seamlessly orchestrate internal global engineering resources, interface with product marketing, and build trust-based relationships with the customer’s executive leadership.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in complex software engineering environments, with at least 5+ years in a dedicated customer-facing technical leadership, account engineering, or engineering director role managing large-scale client engagements.
• Deep hands-on foundational experience in C/C++, Python, Linux Kernel, Platform Drivers, Open Source development, and Network Switching Chipsets.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills, with a proven track record of managing relationships with C-suite executives and major customer stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex client business needs into scalable technical solutions while protecting business margins and spotting expansion opportunities.
• Strong experience with and a passion for emerging technologies (AI/ML, automated tooling), with a track record of successfully integrating these into mature customer architectures.
• Proven ability to lead, influence, and mentor distributed, cross-functional engineering teams in a matrixed global environment without needing direct line authority over every resource.

Requirements

• Incumbent will perform the duties of this position in a normal office or remote home-office environment, with travel required as needed to support customer-facing milestones.
• Overseas travel will be required (3-4 times per year).

Typical Experience

• Fifteen plus years of relevant technical and client-facing engineering leadership experience.

Typical Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a highly related technical field.
• Advanced studies or certifications in Business Administration, Operations, or Technology Management (e.g., MBA or executive leadership training) are highly recommended.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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