Director, Engineering - ERP ( Strictly ERP Domain Candidates)

QAD is a leading provider of ERP solutions purpose-built for manufacturing industries — automotive, life sciences, food & beverage, high tech, and industrial. Serving thousands of global manufacturers, QAD's Adaptive Manufacturing Cloud helps companies operate with greater precision, agility, and intelligence. Enterprise software is entering a third era. The first gave manufacturers a System of Record — ERP that answered 'what do we have and what did we commit to?' The second gave them Data Infrastructure — the ability to move, analyse, and query that data at scale. The third era is domain-specific intelligence: AI agents that can act autonomously on manufacturing data, but only if that data has been given the context, relationships, and governed rules that allow an agent to reason correctly.

Ignite Your Future: At QAD, we are building intelligent, adaptive platforms that redefine manufacturing and supply chains. As Director of Engineering, you will lead a significant portion of the engineering organization responsible for QAD's Adaptive ERP. You will own multiple ERP platform and foundational capabilities while helping shape the continued evolution, modernization, quality, and operational readiness of a mature enterprise product used by manufacturers globally. A major part of your mandate will also be accelerating the transition of existing customers to Adaptive. You will lead foundational ERP capabilities and AI-driven transformation tooling designed to analyze, simplify, and reduce the complexity of customer upgrades and modernization. This role combines engineering leadership, technical depth, product thinking, and transformation. You will lead multiple teams and managers, work across internal and partner engineering organizations, and help define how AI can fundamentally change the way complex enterprise software is analyzed, modernized, and transformed. The Mission: What You'll Be Building Your organization sits at the intersection of QAD's existing ERP estate and its future. You will lead teams responsible for: