STEM Career Coaching for Senior Engineers & Technical Leaders
Career OS™ helps experienced technical professionals make their senior value easier to understand, easier to evidence and easier for the market to buy into.
Built for senior engineers, engineering managers, directors, CTO-track candidates and academics moving into industry.
Clients and professionals supported across engineering, automotive, manufacturing, technology, programme delivery and senior technical leadership.
Structured career support for science, technology, engineering and mathematics professionals.
STEM career coaching translates deep technical experience into senior commercial language, then governs the moves that actually decide a transition — positioning, evidence, search, interviews and negotiation. It is the difference between hoping the right role finds you and running a deliberate process that wins it.
At Eich Dyn it is delivered through Career OS™: a career operating system built specifically for experienced engineers, technical specialists, engineering leaders and academics moving into industry.
Your Capability Is Stronger Than Your Market Narrative
Many senior engineers, technical specialists and STEM leaders are not underqualified. They are under-positioned.
Their experience is often buried in delivery detail, role history and technical complexity. Hiring teams, recruiters and senior decision-makers do not have time to decode that. They look for clear evidence of leadership, commercial impact, stakeholder influence, delivery judgement and readiness for the next level.
When that evidence is not organised, your value gets compressed. You look smaller than you are. You get judged by the surface of your CV, LinkedIn profile and interview answers — not by the full weight of what you have actually delivered.
Career OS™ exists to close that gap.
- You can do the role — your narrative does not yet say so.
- Recruiters and hiring managers screen on signal, not effort.
- Senior interviews reward structured evidence, not improvisation.
- Negotiation leverage is built across the process, not at the end.
Career OS™ replaces fragmented job-search advice with a governed senior-career execution system.
One operating system across diagnosis, positioning, assets, search, interviews and negotiation — with the 30-60-90 launch plan attached. Not isolated tips. Not motivational chats. A sequence with checkpoints, evidence and accountability.
We do not polish your CV. We build your Evidence Architecture.
A senior career decision is made on evidence, not effort. Career OS™ builds seven layers of evidence so the role, the panel and the package can all be argued from strength.
Role evidence
What you are actually accountable for at senior level — scope, span, decision rights.
Delivery evidence
Programmes, products and outcomes you have shipped, with numbers attached.
Leadership evidence
How you grow people, raise standards and govern through other leaders.
Commercial evidence
Cost, margin, revenue, capital and risk decisions you have influenced.
Stakeholder evidence
Board, executive, customer and partner relationships you have carried.
Transformation evidence
Operating-model, technology and capability change you have led through.
Interview evidence
Decision-grade stories pre-built for senior panels, not improvised on the day.
No-guarantee note
Career OS™ is a structured method designed to improve positioning, evidence and conversion. Outcomes depend on your market, role and execution — no specific offer or salary is guaranteed.
Six stages. Six buyer questions. One governed sequence.
Every senior move turns on the same six questions. Click any stage on the wheel to open its chapter.
Senior technical professionals at decision points.
Senior engineers & technical specialists
Deep experts who need specialist value translated into senior commercial language.
See route →Engineering managers & heads of function
Leaders proving delivery through teams, governance and cross-functional influence.
See route →Directors, VPs & CTO candidates
Senior operators preparing for bigger mandates, board scrutiny and negotiated packages.
See route →Academics transitioning to industry
Researchers converting academic authority into industry-ready commercial value.
See route →Where generic coaching stops, Career OS™ keeps going.
Generic CV rewrites and motivational coaching.
An evidence architecture engineered for senior technical roles.
Reactive job applications.
A governed pipeline of targeted relationships and conversations.
Improvised interview answers.
Pre-built, decision-grade stories tuned to senior panels.
Salary asked for politely after offer.
Negotiation sequenced with leverage built in across the process.
One-size-fits-all coach.
Senior-only practice for engineers, leaders and academics into industry.
Advice ends at offer.
30-60-90 launch plan to protect the first chapter in role.
Independent reviews. Senior peers. Real transitions.
Reviews are public on Trustpilot and LinkedIn. Outcomes are described directionally — no specific salary or offer outcome is guaranteed.
Clarity & confidence
“Truly empowering — clarity and confidence in my career direction.” — Francesco M.
Practical, reassuring
“Invaluable guidance on whether to specialise, lead or remain an individual contributor.” — Adam H.
Insightful & useful
“The most insightful and useful one hour I have had in years.” — Nik V.
Second to None
“Absolutely first class coaching, professional and friendly. Dai's knowledge in this field is second to none. His coaching has significantly helped me focus of my next career move. His tools he has developed are simply amazing and are so easy to use. I could not recommend Dai enough.” — Nick, Chief Engineer
Support at Any Stage
“If you want a coach who combines top-tier professional resources with a warm, encouraging, and effective approach, look no further! Big thanks to Dai. I am a senior leader in Automotive (VP level) and found Dai a great asset. He has the breadth to support at any stage of your career.” — Commercial Warrior, VP
Truly Incredible
“Working with Dai has been hands-down one of the best experiences I’ve ever had for my development and progression. From day one, it felt less like a rigid corporate consultation and more like chatting with a brilliant, supportive peer who genuinely cares about my success. The toolkit he provides is unmatched - Truly incredible.” — JB, CTO
The tools do the heavy lifting. The system governs the move.
Career OS™ includes a library of precision AI and worksheet tools — for diagnosis, positioning, narrative, search and interview rehearsal. They accelerate the work. The Career OS™ sequence decides which tool fires when, and what counts as “done”.
Why I Built Career OS™
After 37+ years in engineering, programme leadership and global technical delivery, I kept seeing the same painful pattern.
Highly capable technical professionals were not being held back by weak capability. They were being held back by weak market narrative.
They had delivered complex programmes. Led difficult work. Solved serious problems. Carried real responsibility. Yet their CVs, LinkedIn profiles and interview answers often made them look narrower, smaller, or less senior than they really were.
I know that pain personally.
At 23, I became the youngest manager at Rover Group, leading around 40 engineers. I was delivering. I was trusted. I was getting strong pay rises, bonuses and recognition. But I still waited 14 years for my next real promotion.
Not because I lacked ability. Because I had become too useful where I was. I was excellent in the role, but invisible beyond it. I was valued — but not positioned. I was performing — but not progressing.
The message from a senior engineering director was clear: I needed to demonstrate my capability at a broader level and own a component through to production. In hindsight, I should have moved earlier, challenged harder, or left the company. But at the time, I did what many loyal, high-performing technical professionals do. I kept delivering.
Eventually, with the guidance of an adjacent Chief Engineer, Steve H, I found the direction I needed. I pushed into wider roles, broadened my exposure, and ultimately moved into the senior path I should have been on years before. But I had lost a decade.
That experience stayed with me. I now see the same issue everywhere. Brilliant people waiting to be noticed. Strong professionals relying on hard work alone. Capable candidates underselling themselves because nobody has shown them how to convert achievement into evidence, evidence into positioning, and positioning into opportunity.
Career OS™ was built to fix that gap. Not by polishing a CV. Not by adding more career noise. But by rebuilding the system behind the career move: the evidence, positioning, narrative, search strategy, interview performance and negotiation readiness that help capable professionals get seen, understood and selected.
It is the system I wish I had earlier. And it is built for people who have done the work — but now need the market to see the full value of it.
— Dai Jones, Founder
Dai Jones — operator discipline applied to senior careers.
Nearly forty years across engineering, product development and industrial transformation. Global vehicle programmes, leadership of large multi-country technical teams, and Board-level work on talent and capability.
That same systems-thinking is now applied to senior career transitions: define the target, build the evidence, govern the pipeline, improve conversion, negotiate deliberately.
A clear buying path. Four steps from where you are now to a structured senior career move.
Three routes into Career OS™.
The right route is confirmed in your Career Diagnosis — based on the work the move actually requires, not the package you start with.
Digital access starts from £299. Hybrid and Guided routes are available for clients who need coaching support. The right route is confirmed after Career Diagnosis.
Digital Career OS™
Pricing confirmed at Career Diagnosis
Full lifetime access to the Career OS™ digital system: 300+ implementation resources, 49 precision AI tools and the complete six-stage operating sequence — engineered for senior technical operators, not generic job seekers.
- Format
- Self-guided, lifetime access
- Best fit
- Best when you want the full system and can execute independently.
Hybrid Career OS™
Pricing confirmed at Career Diagnosis
Everything in Digital — plus focused expert intervention to calibrate positioning, evidence and the next high-leverage move.
- Format
- 2 × 2-hour senior intensives
- Best fit
- Best when you need expert calibration on top of the full system.
Guided Career OS™
Pricing confirmed at Career Diagnosis
Everything in Digital and Hybrid — wrapped in maximum structure, accountability and expert oversight across the full senior transition.
- Format
- Up to 10 × 1-hour governed sessions
- Best fit
- Best when the move is senior, high-stakes or time-sensitive.
Who Career OS™ Is Not For
Career OS™ is probably not right for you if:
- You want a quick CV polish without deeper positioning work.
- You want to apply randomly and hope volume solves the problem.
- You are unwilling to examine your evidence, market fit or interview performance honestly.
- You want guaranteed outcomes without doing the work.
- You are looking for generic motivation rather than a structured career operating system.
Answers before you book.
+What is STEM career coaching?
STEM career coaching is structured career support for professionals in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It translates deep technical experience into senior commercial language, then governs positioning, search, interviews and negotiation as one process rather than isolated tactics.
+What is Career OS™?
Career OS™ is Eich Dyn's career operating system for experienced STEM professionals. It combines diagnosis, positioning, evidence assets, search discipline, interview preparation, offer negotiation and a 30-60-90 launch plan in one governed sequence.
+Who is Career OS™ best suited for?
Mid-career and senior engineers, technical specialists, engineering managers, heads of function, CTO-track candidates, and academics moving into industry.
+How is Career OS™ different from generic career coaching?
Generic coaching usually polishes a CV and offers motivation. Career OS™ builds an evidence architecture for senior technical roles and governs the whole transition through to the first 90 days in role.
+Can Career OS™ guarantee a job offer or salary increase?
No. No career coaching system can guarantee an offer or a salary outcome. Career OS™ is designed to improve positioning, evidence quality, search discipline, interview readiness and negotiation preparation. Results depend on your market, role and execution.
+What does the six-stage process include?
Career Diagnosis, Positioning Strategy, CV/LinkedIn/Narrative, Search & Networking, Interview Mastery, and Offer Negotiation.
+How much does it cost?
Pricing is confirmed in your Career Diagnosis call, once the right route (Digital, Hybrid or Guided Career OS™) has been matched to the work the move actually requires.
+Do you offer refunds?
Refunds and cancellations follow the Refund/Cancellation Policy linked in the footer. Programme suitability is confirmed in the Career Diagnosis before purchase.
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Read guide →How to become an Engineering Manager
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Read guide →EM Interview Questions
Decision-grade answers for engineering management panels.
Read guide →NewDirector of Engineering Interview Questions
Executive-level prep: scaling, strategy and senior stakeholders.
Read guide →Run the system. Make the senior move.
A confidential Career Diagnosis Call is the first step into Career OS™ — your target, your constraints and the highest-leverage move next.