Your mission:
As General Manager R&D, you will take full responsibility for our Romanian development hub and play a key role in shaping its future growth. You will ensure efficient site operations, foster a high-performing engineering culture, and act as the bridge between our local teams and headquarters. This is a dedicated leadership position with significant impact on the success and scalability of our global R&D organization.
Your Tasks
In this role, you will oversee all operational, financial, and organizational aspects of our Romanian entity while driving collaboration, transparency, and sustainable growth.

• Take full operational, organizational, financial, and legal responsibility for our Romanian subsidiary
• Represent the company towards local authorities, banks, and external partners and ensure compliance with labor, tax, and corporate regulations
• Own and manage the site budget, including forecasting, cost control, payroll oversight, and close alignment with HQ Finance
• Lead, coach, and develop our local R&D organization, fostering engagement, accountability, and long-term talent retention
• Partner with Talent Acquisition and HQ stakeholders to attract, hire, and onboard top engineering talent
• Build scalable team structures and leadership capabilities aligned with business objectives
• Coordinate local R&D activities and ensure alignment with product roadmaps, priorities, resources, and delivery expectations
• Promote transparency by proactively communicating progress, risks, dependencies, and capacity planning
• Cultivate a collaborative, trust-based, and performance-oriented engineering culture
• Strengthen collaboration between Engineering, Product Management, and headquarters while identifying and removing organizational bottlenecks
  

Your profile:

• Several years of leadership experience within a software development, technology, or R&D environment
• Proven track record of managing teams, budgets, and operational processes
• Experience working within international organizations and collaborating across headquarters and subsidiary structures
• Solid understanding of modern software development environments and agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution and operational excellence
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills
• High level of ownership, sound decision-making abilities, and a pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset
• Empathetic and motivating leadership style combined with the confidence to challenge teams and stakeholders constructively
• Ability to remain calm and focused in dynamic and fast-paced environments
  

Tools & Technologies

• Agile Project Management: YouTrack
• Knowledge Sharing & Documentation: Confluence
• Collaboration & Communication: Microsoft Teams
  

You can look forward to:

• The opportunity to shape and grow an international R&D hub with real impact
• A high-visibility leadership role influencing strategy, culture, and organizational development
• Close collaboration with HQ and our global R&D organization
• The perspective to develop the site into a Center of Excellence
• Meal, cultural, and vacation vouchers, private medical insurance, and additional local benefits
  

Your Contact Person
Camilla Geismar
Recruiting Business Partner
[email protected]
About Us
At meteocontrol, we have been dedicated to renewable energies since 1998 and are one of the world's leading developers of independent energy management systems. With our holistic solutions, we accompany the entire life cycle of energy systems. From planning to commissioning, we support our customers as independent technical consultants. For this we need a team of highly qualified and motivated employees.
Do you want to become part of our diverse team from different departments and drive the future of renewable energies together?
With energy into the future. We are looking forward to you!
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