Senior Manager, Web Engineering

Renesas is seeking a Senior Manager, Web Engineering to lead the organization responsible for building, operating, and improving Renesas.com and related digital platforms. This role manages a global team of approximately 30 full-time employees and contractors across development, QA, infrastructure, production operations, and emerging AI-enabled web initiatives.

This is a senior technical leadership role for someone with the depth to understand complex engineering decisions and the desire to lead through strategy, team design, operating discipline, and cross-functional influence. The ideal candidate is highly technical, but does not need to personally own every implementation detail. They should be able to evaluate tradeoffs, set direction, build trust, and ensure the right technical decisions are being made.

The role reports to the Director of Web and Tech Docs at Renesas and requires excellent communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to translate business and technical needs into clear priorities, scalable plans, and credible recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Web Engineering organization across development, QA, infrastructure, production operations, contractors, and related technical delivery functions.
• Manage and develop a global team of approximately 30 full-time employees and contractors, including expectations, coaching, accountability, resource planning, and delivery quality.
• Own engineering delivery for Renesas.com and related platforms, ensuring work is prioritized, planned, built, tested, released, and supported effectively.
• Set technical direction and operating rhythms for planning, prioritization, release coordination, QA, infrastructure reliability, production support, and leadership reporting.
• Drive practical adoption of AI-enabled tools, workflows, and engineering practices that improve productivity, automation, software quality, content delivery, search experience, and site performance.
• Partner with product management, content management, digital marketing, technical documentation, IT, security, analytics, and business stakeholders to align web engineering priorities with company goals.
• Identify risks, blockers, technical debt, resource constraints, and prioritization conflicts early, then communicate clear options and recommendations.
• Create concise, executive-ready updates that make progress, risks, tradeoffs, decisions, and next steps easy to understand.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in web engineering, software development, technical delivery, infrastructure, QA, or related technology leadership roles, including 5+ years managing engineering teams, technical leads, contractors, or similar technical organizations.
• Strong technical judgment across modern web development, platform architecture, infrastructure, QA, release management, and production support.
• Experience leading web engineering teams that support both CMS-based platforms and newer services, applications, APIs, or front-end experiences built outside the core CMS.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a trusted technical leader who can make strategic recommendations, evaluate risks and tradeoffs, and guide the team without needing to personally own every implementation detail.
• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly, align stakeholders, simplify ambiguity, and communicate decisions with confidence and credibility.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail, follow-through, accountability, and the ability to manage complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Drupal expertise or significant experience leading Drupal-based enterprise web platforms, especially in mixed environments that also include modern front-end frameworks, APIs, cloud services, and non-Drupal applications.
• Experience supporting AI, automation, developer productivity, AI-assisted development, or AI-enabled workflow initiatives.
• Experience with modern web infrastructure and delivery platforms, including AWS servers, Cloudflare, HTMX, Neon, Vercel, GitHub, and related cloud, hosting, deployment, and developer tooling environments.
• Experience in B2B, semiconductor, enterprise technology, web platforms, digital marketing, or globally distributed team environments.
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, hybrid delivery models, prioritization frameworks, operating models, or portfolio-level reporting.

Success in This Role Looks Like

• A clear web engineering strategy is established, communicated, and translated into practical priorities, roadmaps, operating plans, and measurable execution.
• Engineering priorities, dependencies, risks, delivery status, blockers, tradeoffs, and required decisions are clear, actionable, and visible to leadership.
• Development, QA, infrastructure, production, product, and AI stakeholders are aligned around clear ownership, disciplined follow-through, and fewer ownership gaps.
• AI initiatives are connected to practical engineering outcomes and scalable operating processes.
   

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose, To Make Our Lives Easier. With a global team of over 21,000 engineers and problem solvers in more than 30 countries, we offer the opportunity to work on world‑leading technology for Automotive, Industrial, Infrastructure, and IoT, shaping a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter future.

At Renesas, TAGIE is our culture, grounded in being Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. It shapes how we work, grow and deliver on our purpose together. This collaborative spirit and mindset drive our semiconductor technology to transform industries and impact millions of lives.

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.

Are you ready to join our team and shape the future with us?

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.