Remote Director of Application Development Jobs
Remote director of application development jobs are open across the U.S. in sectors like enterprise software, fintech, healthcare technology, and digital media, at companies ranging from remote-first product startups to large distributed engineering organizations. Employers hiring remotely right now include Cardinal Health, HII, and RTX. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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TOPPAN Packaging Americas specializes in designing and manufacturing sustainable, high-performance flexible and thermoformed packaging solutions for the food, beverage, medical and consumer goods industries. We offer products like transparent high barrier films, pouches, clamshells and trays, utilizing advanced technology to enhance product safety, visibility and environmental sustainability.
TOPPAN Packaging Americas operates as part of the global TOPPAN group, with 22 manufacturing facilities across North America, Latin America and Europe.
Want to learn more? Visit us at packaging.toppan.com
NOTE: Role might change based on candidates experience
Summary Description:
The Application Development Manager for the Flexibles Division is the main technical contact between the customer and TOPPAN. This position is responsible for all development and technical service activities at assigned accounts/markets. The packaging technology team is constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to develop packaging solutions that are cost-effective, product-safety complaint, more sustainable, and satisfy customers’ needs.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Working closely with the Commercial Team to identify and successfully commercialize flexible packaging opportunities at targeted accounts.
- Leading technical activities to expand sales of existing structures, develop new flexible packaging structures, drive cost savings, and improve product performance.
- Building and maintaining strong technical customer relations.
- Translating customer requirements to TOPPAN specifications and developing manufacturing instructions.
- Ensuring portfolio is aligned with the business priorities and the needs of the customer.
- Defining project success criteria, draw conclusions based on data, make technical recommendations, and manage projects. Projects are often fast paced with high visibility.
- Developing and leading pilot, production, and filling/packing trials. Publishing trial reports for internal and/or external distribution.
- Coordinating activities to accomplish tasks using available internal and external resources.
- Providing routine technical service activity.
- Preparing written and verbal presentations, project plans, updates, and periodic reports for internal and external use.
- Traveling domestically and internationally to manufacturing plants, suppliers, customers, conferences, and other innovation partners.
- Maintaining complete and accurate work records, including documentation for intellectual property protection.
This is a REMOTE position. West Coast, Texas, Northeast, Chicago, Midwest area. Easy access to a major airport is required.
We’d love to hear from you if:
- Strong material science knowledge (OPP, PET, PE films, Nylon, paper, and foil laminations)
- New product development, flexible packaging applications, project management, and customer relationships.
- Extensive experience in key growth areas in food packaging such as retort, hot fill, hard-to-hold products, personal care, home care, and consumer healthcare packaging are requirements for this position.
- Bachelor of Science, preferably in Engineering, Food Science, Packaging, or Plastics related field
- 5-10 years of Flexible Packaging Product Development and manufacturing processes. Processes include printing (roto/flexo), laminating (adhesive and extrusion), coating, slitting, pouching and form/fill/seal conversion.
- 5-10 years of development of packaging for retort, hot fill, hard to hold, liquid applications.
At TOPPAN Packaging Americas, We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to support our employees’ overall wellbeing. This includes competitive pay, robust benefits, and programs that help you thrive both personally and professionally. Specific benefits and wellbeing programs may vary based on your work location, employment classification, or collective bargaining agreement.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, including FSA and HSA options
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Wellbeing tools and resources to support holistic health, including an Employee Assistance Program with a variety of services
- Paid time off and holidays to recreate, rejuvenate and care for the health of yourself and family
- Variety of company paid and voluntary employee-paid insurance plans including life, personal accident, and disability insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
We are committed to providing a workplace where everyone feels respected, valued, and able to contribute to their fullest potential. We also provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the application and employment processes. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us.
TOPPAN Packaging Americas specializes in designing and manufacturing sustainable, high-performance flexible and thermoformed packaging solutions for the food, beverage, medical and consumer goods industries. We offer products like transparent high barrier films, pouches, clamshells and trays, utilizing advanced technology to enhance product safety, visibility and environmental sustainability.
TOPPAN Packaging Americas operates as part of the global TOPPAN group, with 22 manufacturing facilities across North America, Latin America and Europe.
Want to learn more? Visit us at packaging.toppan.com
NOTE: Role might change based on candidates experience
Summary Description:
The Application Development Manager for the Flexibles Division is the main technical contact between the customer and TOPPAN. This position is responsible for all development and technical service activities at assigned accounts/markets. The packaging technology team is constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to develop packaging solutions that are cost-effective, product-safety complaint, more sustainable, and satisfy customers’ needs.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Working closely with the Commercial Team to identify and successfully commercialize flexible packaging opportunities at targeted accounts.
- Leading technical activities to expand sales of existing structures, develop new flexible packaging structures, drive cost savings, and improve product performance.
- Building and maintaining strong technical customer relations.
- Translating customer requirements to TOPPAN specifications and developing manufacturing instructions.
- Ensuring portfolio is aligned with the business priorities and the needs of the customer.
- Defining project success criteria, draw conclusions based on data, make technical recommendations, and manage projects. Projects are often fast paced with high visibility.
- Developing and leading pilot, production, and filling/packing trials. Publishing trial reports for internal and/or external distribution.
- Coordinating activities to accomplish tasks using available internal and external resources.
- Providing routine technical service activity.
- Preparing written and verbal presentations, project plans, updates, and periodic reports for internal and external use.
- Traveling domestically and internationally to manufacturing plants, suppliers, customers, conferences, and other innovation partners.
- Maintaining complete and accurate work records, including documentation for intellectual property protection.
This is a REMOTE position. West Coast, Texas, Northeast, Chicago, Midwest area. Easy access to a major airport is required.
We’d love to hear from you if:
- Strong material science knowledge (OPP, PET, PE films, Nylon, paper, and foil laminations)
- New product development, flexible packaging applications, project management, and customer relationships.
- Extensive experience in key growth areas in food packaging such as retort, hot fill, hard-to-hold products, personal care, home care, and consumer healthcare packaging are requirements for this position.
- Bachelor of Science, preferably in Engineering, Food Science, Packaging, or Plastics related field
- 5-10 years of Flexible Packaging Product Development and manufacturing processes. Processes include printing (roto/flexo), laminating (adhesive and extrusion), coating, slitting, pouching and form/fill/seal conversion.
- 5-10 years of development of packaging for retort, hot fill, hard to hold, liquid applications.
At TOPPAN Packaging Americas, We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to support our employees’ overall wellbeing. This includes competitive pay, robust benefits, and programs that help you thrive both personally and professionally. Specific benefits and wellbeing programs may vary based on your work location, employment classification, or collective bargaining agreement.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, including FSA and HSA options
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Wellbeing tools and resources to support holistic health, including an Employee Assistance Program with a variety of services
- Paid time off and holidays to recreate, rejuvenate and care for the health of yourself and family
- Variety of company paid and voluntary employee-paid insurance plans including life, personal accident, and disability insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
We are committed to providing a workplace where everyone feels respected, valued, and able to contribute to their fullest potential. We also provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the application and employment processes. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote director of application development jobs.
- 7 or more years of software development experience with at least 3 in a management role
- Proven leadership of cross-functional development teams delivering enterprise-scale applications
- Proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, or SAFe delivery frameworks at the program level
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related technical field
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and application lifecycle management tools
Tips for Your Remote Director of Application Development Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote director of application development openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through non-remote listings mixed in from other sources.
Show async leadership in your application materials
Remote employers at the director level want evidence that you lead through writing. Include examples of architecture decision records, written engineering roadmaps, or async retrospectives you have authored, because these prove you can align distributed teams without synchronous meetings.
Highlight distributed team delivery in your resume
Call out every project where your team was geographically distributed, the tools you used to coordinate delivery, such as Jira, Confluence, Linear, or Notion, and the outcomes you shipped. Remote hiring managers scan for this pattern before anything else at the director level.
Prepare for remote-first technical interviews
Remote director interviews rely heavily on virtual whiteboarding tools like Miro or FigJam and recorded async case studies. Practice narrating your architectural decisions out loud over video and structuring written summaries of your approach, since remote panels often review recordings after the live session.
Remote Director of Application Development Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote director of application development job?
Remote employers hiring at this level screen for self-directed leadership, strong async written communication, and a clear record of shipping products without in-person oversight. Remote-first SaaS companies, distributed enterprise teams, and digital-native firms are the most consistent hirers. What gives candidates an edge is demonstrating that they can run cross-functional development cycles, resolve blockers independently, and keep distributed engineers aligned without relying on hallway conversations or on-site standups.
Which companies hire remote director of application developments?
Employers currently hiring remote director of application developments include Cardinal Health, HII, and RTX, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. The majority are remote-first software companies, distributed enterprise technology teams, and growth-stage SaaS firms that need senior development leadership without restricting their search to a single metro.
Can you get a remote director of application development job with no experience?
Yes, but director-level remote roles are rarely entry-level, and remote work compounds that challenge because you must demonstrate independent judgment from day one. The clearest paths in are building a portfolio of shipped products, contributing to open-source projects with real usage, or stepping into a remote senior engineer or engineering manager role first and earning the director title from within a distributed team.
Do you need a degree for remote director of application development jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers at this level weigh demonstrated engineering leadership, a portfolio of delivered applications, and measurable team outcomes more heavily than a formal degree. That said, some larger enterprises and regulated-industry employers still list a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field as a baseline requirement, so it depends on the company and sector.
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