Requirements Process Lead

Position Summary

The Requirements Process Lead is responsible for defining, governing, improving, and driving adoption of enterprise requirements management processes across product development teams. This role ensures customer, system, hardware, software, and regulatory requirements are effectively captured, reviewed, traced, validated, and managed throughout the product lifecycle.

The ideal candidate combines expertise in requirements engineering, process management, systems thinking, stakeholder engagement, and requirements management tools such as Polarion, Jira, Jama, DOORS, or equivalent platforms. The individual will partner with Product Management, Engineering, Quality, Compliance, and Program Management teams to establish scalable processes that improve product quality, traceability, and delivery predictability.

Key Responsibilities

Requirements Management Governance

- Define and maintain enterprise requirements management processes, standards, templates, and best practices.
- Establish governance models for capturing, reviewing, approving, baselining, and managing requirements.
- Drive consistency across business units, programs, and product lines.
- Ensure compliance with internal development processes and applicable regulatory standards.

Process Improvement

- Analyze existing requirements workflows and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, and traceability.
- Lead process transformation initiatives and change management efforts.
- Develop metrics and KPIs to measure process adoption and effectiveness.
- Facilitate continuous improvement programs based on lessons learned and audit findings.

Requirements Quality and Traceability

- Ensure requirements are clear, measurable, testable, and aligned with customer and business needs.
- Establish end-to-end traceability from customer requirements through product requirements, implementation, testing
- Support requirements reviews and quality assessments across project teams.
- Drive best practices for requirements decomposition, verification, and change management.

Tool Strategy and Administration

- Serve as the business process owner for requirements management platforms.
- Collaborate with tool administrators to define workflows, templates, integrations, and reporting.
- Support integrations between requirements repositories, JIRA, and test management systems.

Stakeholder Engagement

- Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Quality, Program Management, Compliance, and leadership teams.
- Facilitate workshops and reviews to align stakeholders on requirements management expectations.
- Provide guidance and coaching to teams on requirements processes and best practices.
- Support audits, assessments, and executive reporting activities.

Training and Enablement

- Develop and deliver training programs, workshops, and user guides.
- Create onboarding materials and process documentation.
- Promote organizational awareness and adoption of requirements management methodologies.

Must Have

Experience

- Minimum 8 years of experience in requirements engineering, systems engineering, product development, process management, or related discipline.
- Minimum 3 years of experience leading requirements management processes, governance programs, or enterprise process initiatives.
- Proven experience driving cross-functional process improvements within complex product development organizations.

Technical Knowledge

- Strong understanding of requirements lifecycle management, traceability, and configuration management.
- Experience with requirements management tools such as Polarion, Jama, IBM DOORS, Azure DevOps, Jira, or equivalent platforms.
- Understanding of Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid development methodologies.
- Experience establishing metrics, dashboards, and process governance frameworks.

Leadership Skills

- Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority.
- Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience leading cross-functional working groups and process councils.
- Ability to drive organizational change and adoption.

Education

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Business, or related field.
- Equivalent experience may be considered.

Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
- INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) or equivalent certification.
- Experience in regulated industries such as security, IoT, aerospace, automotive, industrial, medical, or consumer electronics.
- Experience implementing enterprise-wide requirements management transformations.
- Knowledge of model-based systems engineering (MBSE).

What We Value

Customer Focus You understand that high-quality requirements begin with understanding customer needs and translating them into actionable, measurable outcomes.

Systems Thinking You see the big picture and understand the connections between business objectives, customer requirements, product requirements, development activities, and verification processes.

Continuous Improvement You challenge the status quo and proactively identify opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, and effectiveness.

Collaboration You build strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, Program Management, Quality, and Compliance teams to achieve shared goals.

Ownership You take accountability for outcomes, drive issues to resolution, and ensure sustainable process adoption.

Excellence You promote rigor, traceability, quality, and best practices while enabling teams to move quickly and effectively.

Learning Mindset You embrace new technologies, methodologies, and approaches that improve requirements management and product development outcomes.

What's In It for You:

- Health Insurance Coverage – comprehensive care for you and your family.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – confidential service which equips and supports you as you meet life’s challenges.
- Education Assistance – we invest in your growth so you can keep learning and thriving.
- Maternity & Paternity Leave – because family always comes first.
- Menstrual Wellness Benefit – benefit for women employees
- Bereavement Leave – time to be with loved ones when it matters most.

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