Software Leader-DXR

Job Title

Software Leader-DXR

Job Description

Software Leader-DXR

As a Software Leader for DXR, you are responsible for leading the end-to-end Software R&D organization, driving the strategy, development, and delivery of innovative DXR products and AI-enabled solutions that create differentiated customer value and business impact.

You are fit if:

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline. An MBA or equivalent business/leadership qualification is an advantage.

• Leadership Experience: 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering and R&D, including significant experience leading large, globally distributed software organizations in a complex product environment.

• Transformation Leadership: Demonstrated success in transforming software organizations to improve quality, speed, predictability, productivity, and development efficiency through modern engineering practices, automation, infrastructure modernization, and new ways of working.

• AI & Engineering Excellence: Strong understanding of the evolving software engineering landscape, with demonstrated ability to leverage AI, automation, DevOps and data-driven engineering practices to transform the software development lifecycle and accelerate innovation.

• Customer & Business Orientation: Strong customer-centric and business mindset, with the ability to translate customer needs, clinical workflows, technology trends, and business strategy into software priorities and differentiated product capabilities.

• Platform & Architecture Mindset: Experience driving platform-based software development, modular architecture, reuse, scalability, and lifecycle management across multiple products and business roadmaps.

• Execution & Operational Excellence: Strong operational and analytical mindset with the ability to establish meaningful software KPIs, use data to drive decisions, and ensure high-quality, predictable delivery across complex global programs.

• Influence & Stakeholder Leadership: Strong executive presence and influencing skills, with demonstrated ability to challenge, align, and gain commitment from senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders across R&D, Product, Quality & Regulatory, Marketing, Service, and other functions.

• Complex Problem Solving: A solutions-oriented leader who can navigate ambiguity, simplify complex problems, evaluate alternatives and trade-offs, and make sound decisions balancing customer value, quality, speed, cost, risk, and long-term sustainability.

• People & Culture Leadership: Proven ability to build high-performing global teams, develop leaders and technical talent, foster accountability and collaboration, and create a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and ownership.

• Healthcare/Regulated Environment: Experience in healthcare, medical devices, or another safety-critical and regulated industry is strongly preferred, with an understanding of software quality, compliance, cybersecurity, and product lifecycle expectations.

• Global Collaboration: Comfortable operating across cultures, geographies, and organizational boundaries, with willingness to travel internationally as required

How we work together:
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.

Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This role is an office-based role.
 

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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.

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