Engineering Automation & Intelligence Lead
RunwayExtenders
Our Mission, Your Success:
We link professionals from Kosovo, Albania and North Macedonia with top US start-ups, by empowering challenge seekers like you to build successful careers. Our ultimate vision is to offer exclusive career opportunities with a focus on attracting, retaining, and developing the best talents.
Our client, Your Impact:
Our well-funded US client is transforming how consumers and businesses access clean energy, tackling climate change through technology at scale. This role sits at the intersection of the internal operations and is ideal for self-directed operators who take ownership, move fast, and push execution forward without waiting for instruction.
Responsibilities:
- Build and own the systems that make delivery transparent, measurable, and proactive, providing leadership with real-time visibility into roadmap health and execution performance.
- Design automated dashboards and AI-driven reporting that replace ad hoc updates and create a single, trusted source of truth across Jira, Jellyfish, and engineering systems.
- Establish early-warning frameworks to detect blockers, dependency risks, capacity constraints, and delivery slippage, shifting the organization from reactive reporting to predictive execution management.
- Define and operationalize trusted engineering KPIs (velocity, cycle time, throughput, quality) to drive measurable improvements in efficiency and predictability.
- Design and embed AI-powered, agentic workflows that reduce coordination overhead and increase engineering productivity without increasing burnout.
- Improve visibility across infrastructure and delivery systems to surface constraints, bottlenecks, and performance drivers.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in Engineering Operations, Product Operations, Technical Program Management, or Engineering leadership roles.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, engineering workflows, and delivery systems within high-performing technical teams.
- Deep familiarity with Jira, Jellyfish, and engineering system data, experience building automated reporting frameworks and execution dashboards.
- Hands-on experience working with BI tools, SQL, or data pipelines.
- Comfortable working with BI tools, SQL, or data pipelines (hands-on preferred).
- Experience implementing AI tooling within engineering teams.
Other Details:
- Private health insurance
- Hybrid work with reliable internet access from anywhere in MK, KS, or AL
- Access to top-quality office equipment provided by the company
- Schedule: Monday-Friday, 3 pm - 11 pm CEST (Skopje, Prishtina, Tirana local time).
We are looking for individuals who:
- Are available for full-time engagement.
- Consider this role as their primary professional commitment (main role).
This role builds the operating intelligence layer of R&D by enabling leadership and engineering to make faster, smarter, data-informed decisions. If you are a motivated self-starter with a passion for project and operations, we would invite you over to apply!