Senior Director, Hardware Engineering

What You'll Do:

• Develop, retain, inspire, and lead a high-performance global hardware engineering team that continues to develop the industry’s best hardware - now and in the future.
• Provide subject matter expertise and thought leadership to shape and influence future roadmaps, technology investments, partnerships, and product plans. 
• Influence and collaborate cross-functionally with key stakeholders, including Product management, strategic sourcing, and operations leadership.
• Create and execute an organizational plan focused on building our core capabilities to deliver our new product roadmap while improving our existing fleet's safety, reliability, operating costs, and performance.
• Engage and support all aspects of the product life cycle (concept, development, integration, qualification, manufacturing, delivery, acceptance, and field performance, and end-of life).
• Partner with product management and operations to discover, prioritize and execute initiatives that continuously improve the performance of our 260,000+ vehicle fleet.
• Ensure that our engineering tools, systems, and global engineering processes enable world-class outcomes in execution excellence. 
• Manage, track and ensure the timely execution of all engineering projects. Establish objectives, specifications, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and contingency plans to ensure effective execution.
• Provide clear and timely communication to keep stakeholders informed on all key initiatives, projects, and escalations. 

About You:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering & 12+ years of experience working in hardware engineering, with progressive responsibility and expansion and at least six years of experience managing system-level hardware development teams for consumer electronics, automotive, or electric vehicle businesses.
• Strong track record building high-performance cross-functional teams across borders, languages, and cultures. 
• Strong track record attracting, assessing, and developing world-class talent. People love working for you, and you can explain why. You identify outstanding talent and continuously raise the bar on performance with explicit mechanisms for measuring performance.
• Customer-obsessed, lead by example, expertise creating an engineering culture that obsesses about customer experience, continuous improvement, and execution excellence.
• High EQ, transparent, humble, communicative, collaborative leadership style. Strong bias for action. The best idea wins, no matter where it comes from.
• Effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills and people instincts, resulting in an ability to quickly establish trust and credibility with a diverse, global team.
• Extensive experience developing, launching, and supporting successful products from NPI to EOL. 
• Multidisciplinary expertise, including industrial design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and system-level electronics architecture and design.
• Track record building highly effective partnerships and strategic relationships with key suppliers.
• Experience in manufacturing, familiarity with factory environments, and a solid understanding of fabrication technologies and methods (molding, forging, extrusion, CNC, welding, etc.). Knowledge/experience in PCBA manufacturing is also a plus. Automotive, consumer electronics, and electric vehicle experience desired