Head of Product Development

**Role Overview:** Ailaysa Technologies Pvt Ltd, an AI-powered multilingual content creation and translation platform based in Chennai, is seeking a detail-oriented Engineering Leader to oversee the end-to-end development and release of their SaaS products. The ideal candidate will lead a cross-functional team and ensure timely delivery of quality products while maintaining high engineering standards. **Key Responsibilities:** - **Product Delivery:** - Own the end-to-end delivery of all AI SaaS product releases, from technical planning to production deployment - Translate product roadmaps and business priorities into engineering milestones with clear timelines - Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies and blockers to prevent delays - Make informed scope trade-off decisions and maintain release cadence across multiple workstreams - **Team Leadership:** - Lead and manage a team of 815 engineers spanning various disciplines - Foster a high-trust, high-accountability team culture - Conduct effective sprint planning, retrospectives, and 1:1s to improve team performance - Mentor and develop engineers at all levels while contributing to building the engineering organization - **Technical Oversight:** - Review architecture decisions, technical designs, and infrastructure proposals - Set and enforce engineering standards for code quality, security, documentation, and testing coverage - Ensure cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices are reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient - Integrate AI/ML components responsibly with clear performance benchmarks - **Stakeholder Communication:** - Serve as the primary interface between engineering and business/product leadership - Translate technical complexity into business language - Report on sprint velocity, delivery risk, and engineering health to the CEO and leadership team - Collaborate with product and business leads on technical delivery priorities **Qualifications Required:** - **Must-Have Experience:** - 610 years in software engineering with at least 2 years in a team lead or engineering head role - Proven track record of shipping SaaS products on time with cross-functional teams - Hands-on experience in Python/Django, cloud infrastructure, and Agile/Scrum methodology - **Strong Advantage:** - Experience leading AI/ML engineering teams or integrating LLM-based features into SaaS products - Familiarity with multilingual content platforms, NLP, or translation technology - Prior work with multi-tenant SaaS architecture and enterprise-grade security/compliance - Startup or scale-up experience where processes were built from the ground up Please send your CV and a short note on your experience leading a multi-disciplinary engineering team to apply for the role of Head of Product Development at Ailaysa Technologies Pvt Ltd. **Role Overview:** Ailaysa Technologies Pvt Ltd, an AI-powered multilingual content creation and translation platform based in Chennai, is seeking a detail-oriented Engineering Leader to oversee the end-to-end development and release of their SaaS products. The ideal candidate will lead a cross-functional team and ensure timely delivery of quality products while maintaining high engineering standards. **Key Responsibilities:** - **Product Delivery:** - Own the end-to-end delivery of all AI SaaS product releases, from technical planning to production deployment - Translate product roadmaps and business priorities into engineering milestones with clear timelines - Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies and blockers to prevent delays - Make informed scope trade-off decisions and maintain release cadence across multiple workstreams - **Team Leadership:** - Lead and manage a team of 815 engineers spanning various disciplines - Foster a high-trust, high-accountability team culture - Conduct effective sprint planning, retrospectives, and 1:1s to improve team performance - Mentor and develop engineers at all levels while contributing to building the engineering organization - **Technical Oversight:** - Review architecture decisions, technical designs, and infrastructure proposals - Set and enforce engineering standards for code quality, security, documentation, and testing coverage - Ensure cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices are reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient - Integrate AI/ML components responsibly with clear performance benchmarks - **Stakeholder Communication:** - Serve as the primary interface between engineering and business/product leadership - Translate technical complexity into business language - Report on sprint velocity, delivery risk, and engineering health to the CEO and leadership team - Collaborate with product and business leads on technical delivery priorities **Qualifications Required:** - **Must-Have Experience:** - 610 years in software enginee