Job Description

About the role

As Software Execution Lead, you will ensure structured and predictable execution for a distributed platform team of approximately 15 professionals located across Europe.

You will operate at the intersection of business and IT, driving alignment, governance, and delivery transparency in close collaboration with the Product Owner.

The role requires strong execution leadership, governance maturity, and the ability to operate confidently within enterprise IT frameworks.

Collaboration takes place primarily via Microsoft Teams.

Your responsibilities

Execution & Initiative Leadership

• Drive high-level scoping and structuring of initiatives
• Maintain roadmap overview and ensure long-term alignment
• Coordinate priorities across business stakeholders and IT
• Identify risks and mitigation actions proactively
• Manage dependencies across teams and the shared service team
• Ensure transparency on progress, delivery status, and impediments
• Create structure, clarity, and momentum across initiatives.

Agile Facilitation & Delivery Enablement

• Facilitate planning, refinement, and key team ceremonies
• Ensure backlog readiness and planning maturity
• Maintain capacity overview and delivery predictability
• Drive accountability and engagement in a distributed team without formal line authority

IT Alignment & Governance

• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles
• Act as the coordination point between the platform team and central IT functions
• Secure clear information flow between IT and the development team
• Anchor delivery in existing IT governance and operational processes

Platform Sustainability & Technical Oversight

• Safeguard long-term platform sustainability
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term technical health
• Monitor and manage technical debt
• Drive alignment on non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, security)
• Ensure platform stability, reliability, and resilience
• Establish dashboards providing transparency on team health, delivery performance, and platform KPIs
• Drive continuous improvement of platform reliability and operational maturity

We are looking for someone who

• Has experience leading execution in complex enterprise IT or platform environments
• Has a background as project manager, execution lead, or similar coordination-heavy role
• Is comfortable operating across distributed, cross-country teams
• Has strong stakeholder management skills across business and IT
• Understands governance, non-functional requirements, and IT operating models
• Creates clarity, structure, and momentum in complex environments
• Influences without formal line authority

What We Offer

• Constructive cooperation based on trust and respect for the employee
• Bonus system
• Employee Pension Scheme financed entirely by the employer (PPE)
• Attractive well-being package (platform MyBenefit, life insurance, lunch card, gift cards)
• Private medical care with telemedicine and rehabilitation
• Employee Foundation support
• Internal development programs
• Remote work (2 times per week) and workation
• Flexible working hours
• Additional 2 days of holiday for volunteering
• Modern office full of light, fresh air and the highest quality office equipment. Parking spaces available to employees
• Massages in the office
• Referral program
• Employee discount on VELUX products

Ready to apply? 

Learn more about the VELUX Group online at www.velux.comwhere you can read more about working at our company and what to expectofour recruitment process. 

We look forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible. We are conducting interviews on an ongoing basis until we have the right match. 

All inquiries will be treated confidentially. 

About VELUX 

In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the roof window category, we enable those who live,workand play under the rooftransformtheir spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.

The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we can create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations. With 20 production companies in 12 countries and sales companies in 37 countries, our products are widely available. We employ around 12,000 people, and our company is headquartered in Denmark. Alongside the rest of our values, “courage” and “mutual respect” define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world.

Equal Opportunity Employer 

At VELUX Residential, we believe in fostering a diverse workplace for everyone to thrive, develop, and perform at their best, and where you feel welcome, respected, and valued. We are committed toproviding equal opportunities for all- whether you are applying for a role or already a part of VELUX Residential. That means we recruit, hire, train, and promote people based on their skills and potential without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, neurodiversity, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, sexualorientationor any other basis prohibited by applicable law.  

 We value diversity and strive to ensure that our employment decisions are fair and inclusive, focusing only on what truly matters: your qualifications and how you can contribute to our shared mission and success.