A career with EROAD offers the unique opportunity to work in a fast-growing organisation that is at the forefront of in-vehicle technology, enhancing road safety, productivity, and reducing environmental impact. EROAD's mission is to deliver intelligence you can trust, for a better world tomorrow.
What We're looking for:
The Director – Software Delivery & Assurance is a senior leadership position within the Technology function, reporting directly to the VP of Engineering. This role is responsible for leading the strategic and operational direction of software delivery and quality assurance across the organisation. The Director ensures alignment between delivery execution and business strategy, promoting excellence in agile practices, predictable delivery, and world-class quality standards.
About the Role:
The role oversees a network of Chapter Leads and their chapters, including Delivery and Quality Engineering, providing leadership, direction, and support across all aspects of agile delivery and test engineering. The ideal candidate will bring deep delivery expertise, a coaching mindset, and the ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels to continuously improve delivery health and quality across the product and platform engineering landscape.
Agile Delivery Mastery: Expert in Agile delivery models including Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, with experience scaling delivery across large organizations.
Strategic Leadership: Ability to define and communicate strategic direction for delivery and QA, aligning execution with business goals.
Quality Engineering Expertise: Deep understanding of automation frameworks, test strategies, and quality metrics; ability to champion “test early, test often” practices.
Organisational Coaching: Skilled in mentoring and developing leaders and teams through coaching, feedback, and empowerment.
Governance & Metrics: Experience establishing delivery KPIs, tracking performance, and running delivery governance at a portfolio level.
Stakeholder Engagement: Able to influence senior stakeholders and navigate across cross-functional teams to align priorities and remove delivery roadblocks.
Skills and Experience:
We’re looking for someone with a minimum of 8+ years' experience in agile delivery, program management, or quality assurance roles, with at least 5 years in leadership positions. You will possess skills such as:
Proven track record of managing multiple agile delivery teams and enabling predictable, high-quality delivery in fast-paced tech environments.
Experience building and leading delivery and QA chapters, with demonstrated success in coaching senior practitioners.
Strong knowledge of agile tooling (Jira, Confluence, TestRail, CI/CD dashboards).
SaaS product experience and/or background in high-availability, customer-facing platforms preferred.
Exposure to scaled agile frameworks (e.g., SAFe) and strong delivery reporting practices.
Why you’ll love working at EROAD:
EROAD is a true Kiwi success story in the tech sector! Publicly listed since 2012, we are represented on the NZX and ASX, and continue to grow rapidly across NZ, Australia, and the USA.
At EROAD, we value diversity and are a multicultural company with employees from all over the world. We are committed to investing in our people, demonstrated through our funded medical insurance plans, unlimited sick leave, recognition programs, EAP offerings, and more. EROAD fosters a sense of community and belonging through fun and collaborative workplace initiatives.
In our Albany office, we offer free on-site parking, are in close proximity to Albany bus station, and encourage flexible working.
Join EROAD and be part of an organisation in growth mode. Your skills and expertise will make a significant impact. We are going places, and we would love you to join us. We can't wait to hear from you!
