What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Value Engineering Lead (Remote - US) position at Octave?
Job Location (Short): Madison, Alabama-USA
Workplace Type: Remote
Req Id: 2914
Responsibilities
Octave is seeking a Director, Value Engineering Lead. This role will own Octave’s value engineering discipline, frameworks, and scalable assets. Ensures Product, Sales, and Customer Success can consistently articulate and prove business outcomes across the portfolio.
Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle - Design, Build, Operate and Protect - where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option.
Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.
Octave has more than 7,000 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Why work for Octave?
All in. Always forward. That's the way we do things around here. We put trust in our people because we believe it's the best way to unleash potential, bring ideas to life, and keep moving ahead. And it's why we're committed to creating an environment that's truly supportive, providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.
Everyone is welcome
At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don't discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.
Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You're valued here.
Workplace Type: Remote
Req Id: 2914
Responsibilities
Octave is seeking a Director, Value Engineering Lead. This role will own Octave’s value engineering discipline, frameworks, and scalable assets. Ensures Product, Sales, and Customer Success can consistently articulate and prove business outcomes across the portfolio.
- Define and govern the enterprise value framework: standard methodologies, assumptions, approval processes, and version control across regions and segments.
- Build and maintain scalable value assets—outcomes library, ROI/TCO models, business value assessments, and executive-ready narratives—by product family and solution area.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Finance to translate technical capabilities into defensible, quantified economic outcomes; validate with customer evidence and post-implementation results.
- Provide player/coach support on strategic deals: lead value discovery, structure the business case, and support executive-level value conversations.
- Drive adoption of value tools and methodology through training, coaching, and integration into the sales process.
- Success Measures
- Adoption and usage of value tools and standardized narratives across commercial teams
- Win-rate and discount improvement on value-supported deals
- Value asset coverage across priority segments and refresh cadence
- Customer evidence generated (quantified outcomes, case studies, references)
- 8–12 years in value engineering, strategy consulting, sales engineering, or pricing/value roles in B2B technology
- Strong financial modeling (ROI/TCO), executive storytelling, and cross-functional leadership
- Comfort building scalable systems from scratch in ambiguous environments
Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle - Design, Build, Operate and Protect - where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option.
Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.
Octave has more than 7,000 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Why work for Octave?
All in. Always forward. That's the way we do things around here. We put trust in our people because we believe it's the best way to unleash potential, bring ideas to life, and keep moving ahead. And it's why we're committed to creating an environment that's truly supportive, providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.
Everyone is welcome
At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don't discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.
Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You're valued here.