[Hiring] Senior Leader: Simulation Product Technical Documentation @Siemens

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced leader to drive strategy and execution of technical documentation for our comprehensive portfolio of simulation software, which provide solutions across mechanical, thermal, and fluid dynamics disciplines. This role leads a multi-country organization, including existing first-line managers, and is accountable for content quality, delivery models, team capability, and measurable business impact. The leader will guide transformation toward AI-enabled, context-rich information creation and consumption aligned with customer workflows.

• Partner with product management, engineering, customer success, services, support, and executive leaders to align information design and delivery strategies (including AI assisted through in-products bots) with business, product, and customer needs.
• Promote and drive documentation solutions that support product adoption, field enablement, and optimal information delivery.
• Define consistent success metrics and quality gates aligned to release cadence and customer usage patterns.
• Integrate documentation with curriculum development and customer support workflows to provide a unified customer experience.
• Manage multiple distributed content development teams.
• Drive employee development, organizational capability, execution excellence, and measurable business impact. Develop career paths, skills models, and recruiting practices.
• Lead adoption of emerging technologies, including AI-assisted structured authoring, component content management, and semantic tagging.
• Improve, standardize, and monitor end-to-end documentation processes across planning, authoring, review, localization, and publication.
• Refine resourcing and load-balancing models; strengthen cross-product collaboration and capacity planning.
• Assist with management of budget, vendor partnerships, and technology investments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Aerospace, Chemical), Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Technical Communication, or a related field.
• 5+ years professional experience building, validating, and using CAE models to make engineering product design decisions.
• 5+ years of experience managing global teams and developing leaders in a multi-level organization focused on technical documentation or similar customer-focused roles.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through change, influence senior stakeholders, and build high-performing teams.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and cross-functional communication skills.

Requirements

• Experience managing technical communication, customer success, curriculum development, or similar teams.
• Experience with AI-driven content technologies such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, or automated content grounding.
• Experience with structured authoring, taxonomy design, or metadata governance for technical content.
• Familiarity with content pipelines (CCMS, doc-as-code, CI/CD), API documentation, or large-scale HTML/PDF publishing.
• Experience in localization workflows, accessibility standards, or terminology management.

Benefits

• The salary range for this position is $154,200 to $277,600 and this role is eligible to earn incentive compensation (10-15%).
• The actual compensation offered is based on the successful candidate's job-related skills, experience, and relevant education/training.
• Siemens offers health and wellness benefits to employees; you can access the benefits available in your country via the link: Siemens Benefits .