Director of Hardware Product — Equity & Impact

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 226,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental and vision insurance

Mental health resources

Equity packages

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in San Francisco is seeking a Director of Product, Hardware to drive a portfolio of wearable hardware programs. You will own the product strategy, collaborate with engineering, design, and data teams, and shape the end-to-end lifecycle from concept to commercialization.

You will lead customer insights, define PRDs, balance cost and timelines, and communicate plans across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product management with a proven track record of delivering products with high business impact and outstanding customer satisfaction.
• Deep understanding of hardware development, including design phases, manufacturing, materials, compliance, and quality.
• Experience with connected electronics including connectivity, compute, battery, firmware, and software features.
• Successfully taken new and/or existing hardware products from concept to commercial launch with minimal supervision.
• Ability to combine consumer, technology, and business insights into a simple narrative (with data to back it up) that excites both internal and external audiences.
• Ability to quickly analyze and come up with creative solutions to challenging problems under pressure and with extreme constraints.
• Unmatched ability to get things done, move mountains, roll up your sleeves, and unblock tricky situations with empathy, intelligence, and drive.
• Excellent written and presentation skills that create clear thinking, high-quality discussions, and effective decision-making among large groups.
• Unrelenting optimism that drives people and projects forward, mixed with genuine kindness and thoughtfulness.
• A natural tendency to do something as well as it can possibly be done, try new things, and learn quickly from failed experiments.
• People management experience

Responsibilities

• Product Ownership: take ownership of a hardware product to maximize company impact and customer satisfaction by solving customer and business pain points
• Market and Technology Landscape: Monitor and understand new and novel technologies and products in the consumer and wearables market; distill key insights for the team.
• Storytelling: Craft a unique product story rooted in deep customer insights.
• Problem Solving: Proactively identify and resolve product-related issues throughout the product lifecycle.
• User Research: conduct market research, competitive analysis, and qualitative and quantitative user studies
• Requirements Management: Write and manage product requirements (PRD), regularly assess progress, and facilitate timely decision making
• Product Development Lifecycle: Support the entire product lifecycle from concept to end of life, working closely with engineering and design teams to ensure timely and high-quality execution
• Prioritization: prioritize features, options, and product improvements - balancing cost, timeline, and experience tradeoffs
• Communication: Effectively communicate priorities, plans, progress, and challenges to stakeholders across the organization. Maintain clear, organized communication.
• Collaboration: Work closely with a diverse, talented team of designers, engineers, scientists, marketers, and analysts to create incredible products. Partner closely with software product management counterparts.
• Roadmap support: contribute to the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the company’s hardware product portfolio, including next-generation products.
• Go-to-market: Support go-to-market readiness by developing compelling positioning and pricing and overseeing overall product readiness.
• Resource planning: Determine what a staffing and resources are needed for your area of ownership
• People Leadership: Grow the team over time based on project needs, manage and mentor team members

Skills

Product management

Hardware development

Market research

Storytelling

Communication

Leadership

Go-to-market

Prioritization

Team management

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC in San Francisco is seeking a Director of Product, Hardware to drive a portfolio of wearable hardware programs. You will own the product strategy, collaborate with engineering, design, and data teams, and shape the end-to-end lifecycle from concept to commercialization.

You will lead customer insights, define PRDs, balance cost and timelines, and communicate plans across the organization.