The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community. The Role Aspen Technology, a business unit inside Emerson Corporation, is a leading industrial software company, serving over 3,000 customers with over $1 billion in annual revenue, more than 60 locations worldwide, and nearly 4,000 employees. AspenTech solutions address complex environments where it is critical to optimize the asset design, operation and maintenance lifecycle. Through AspenTech’s unique combination of deep domain expertise and award-winning innovative software suites, customers in asset-intensive industries can improve their operational excellence while achieving sustainability goals. The AspenTech Performance Engineering Solution provides a market leading integrated suite of products to optimize the performance of process industry assets across the CAPEX and OPEX cycles and is powered by flagship process modeling products such as Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus with a proven track record of value creation over several decades. Your Impact As a Director, Release Train Product Management working within the Scaled Agile Framework, you are responsible for turning vision into reality by managing the program backlog, prioritizing features, and collaborating with Solution Product Management to deliver solutions that align with business goals with the shortest lead time. Execution Strategy: Responsible for the Program Backlog, working with Solution Product Management, the System Architect, and the Release Train Engineer to prioritize the backlog to maximize the delivery of value over time. Feature Definition: Responsible for turning product vision into concrete deliverable features. Working with the Product Owner team to refine backlog items into items of incremental value delivery. Team Leadership: Leading and growing a team of Product Owners. You will be responsible for hiring, coaching, and retaining top talent, and for ensuring that the team is continuously improving. PI Planning Leadership: Collaborate with Business Owners, Product Owners, Architects, and ART leadership to define and communicate Program Increment (PI) objectives, establish feature priorities, and ensure alignment of the Agile Release Train to strategic outcomes. Lean Portfolio Alignment: Apply Lean economics, including WSJF and value-based prioritization techniques, to optimize sequencing and maximize outcomes. What You'll Need 10+ years of progressive product-centric software development leadership, including a demonstrated record of success delivering value with quality. Bachelor’s degree in engineering, with preference to Chemical Engineering. Advanced degree is a plus. Experience in process engineering and optimization will be extremely important including real life user experience of AspenTech Performance Engineering products such Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus. Experience in communicating product vision and road maps to the development teams. Experience leading Agile development teams, working within the SAFe® framework Proven ability to analyze reports, dashboards, and other tools to make critical decisions and recommendations to help the company to achieve its goals. Strong analytical skills. #LI-DW1 The salary range for this role is $196,800.00 - $246,000.00. This range represents what we in good faith believe is the range possible for base compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on several factors. This range may be modified in the future. This role is also eligible for bonus or variable incentive pay. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, charitable giveback day, medical/dental/vision insurance, and retirement benefits to eligible employees. AspenTech is a global software leader helping industries meet the increasing demand for resources from a rapidly growing population in a profitable and sustainable manner. Our Digital Grid Management software suite, including AspenTech OSI products, helps power and utilities companies achieve superior real-time control, optimization and management for exceptional performance of complex energy networks. If you're looking to make a difference every day and push the limits of performance, AspenTech is doing things no one else thought was possible. As a leading industrial software partner, we help companies all over the world run safer, greener, longer and faster. With over 3700 employees and more than 60 global locations, AspenTech is meeting today's sustainability and business challenges head-on with unmatched expertise, cutting-edge AI-powered technology and a passion to innovate. AspenTech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. 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