Director, Product Systems & Integration

1 DexCom Inc; California; On-site; USD 210,000 - 349,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexcom seeks a Director of Product Systems & Integration to lead hardware product ownership, hardware systems engineering, and software-hardware system integration across the product lifecycle. You will establish clear technical ownership, decision rights, and operating mechanisms across engineering, quality, regulatory, and operations to ensure end-to-end traceability and successful product outcomes.

You will attract, develop, and retain senior technical leaders, build a scalable operating

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field required; 15+ years of industry experience in engineering leadership.
• Experience delivering complex, safety-critical, regulated products from concept through commercialization.
• Strong systems engineering background in requirements, architecture, interfaces, integration, risk, verification, and design controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Product Systems & Integration organization, including hardware product owners and systems engineers.
• Establish technical ownership, decision rights, and governance across engineering, quality, regulatory, and operations.
• Own hardware product requirements, system architecture, interface definition, and end-to-end traceability.
• Coordinate cross-functional technical integration across software, electrical, mechanical, firmware, sensors, and manufacturing.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks, optimize performance, cost, schedule, manufacturability, and regulatory impact.
• Conduct design reviews, negotiate requirements, and structure clear ownership and evidence-based rationale.
• Attract, develop, and retain senior technical leaders, creating career paths and accountability.
• Build a scalable operating model with governance and lessons learned across product development and sustaining programs.
• Strengthen readiness for engineering and clinical builds, verification/validation, manufacturing transfer, and regulatory submissions.

Skills

Multidisciplinary leadership

Systems engineering depth

Design for six sigma

Regulatory experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring and talent development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

The Company Dexcom Corporation (NASDAQ DXCM) is a pioneer and global leader in continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Dexcom began as a small company with a big dream: To forever change how diabetes is managed. To unlock information and insights that drive better health outcomes. Here we are 25 years later, having pioneered an industry. And we're just getting started. We are broadening our vision beyond diabetes to empower people to take control of health. That means personalized, actionable insights aimed at solving important health challenges. To continue what we've started: Improving human health. We are driven by thousands of ambitious, passionate people worldwide who are willing to fight like warriors to earn the trust of our customers by listening, serving with integrity, thinking big, and being dependable. We've already changed millions of lives and we're ready to change millions more. Our future ambition is to become a leading consumer health technology company while continuing to develop solutions for serious health conditions. We'll get there by constantly reinventing unique biosensing-technology experiences. Though we've come a long way from our small company days, our dreams are bigger than ever. The opportunity to improve health on a global scale stands before us.

Meet the team: Reporting to the SVP Engineering, Head of R&D, the Director of Product Systems & Integration will lead the organization responsible for hardware product ownership, hardware and physical transmitter systems engineering, software-hardware system integration, and product-level technical integration. This leader will bring together the roles, methods, and technical leadership needed to translate product intent into integrated, reliable, manufacturable, and commercially scalable medical devices. The organization will operate across the product lifecycle, from early requirements and architecture through subsystem integration, design verification, clinical builds, manufacturing transfer, and commercialization. The Director will establish clear technical accountability, strengthen systems engineering and design-for-six-sigma discipline, and develop HPOs and systems leaders who can make effective cross-functional decisions and deliver predictable product outcomes.

Where you come in:

• You will lead the Product Systems & Integration organization, including Hardware Product Owners, hardware systems engineering
• You will establish clear product-level technical ownership, decision rights, and operating mechanisms across HPOs, systems engineers, system integrators, functional engineering teams, program leadership, Quality, Regulatory, and Operations
• You will own the effectiveness of hardware product requirements, system architecture, interface definition, requirements decomposition and allocation, and end-to-end traceability across the product lifecycle
• You will lead cross-functional technical integration across software, electrical, mechanical, firmware, sensor, algorithm, process development, verification, manufacturing, and supplier teams to ensure the software system and hardware system work together as an integrated product
• You will ensure product-level technical risks, system interactions, and critical tradeoffs involving performance, reliability, cost, schedule, manufacturability, and regulatory impact are identified early, resolved with appropriate rigor, and escalated when needed
• You will conduct critical reviews of system-level design decisions, negotiate design requirements and specifications across functions, and ensure technical tradeoffs are resolved with clear ownership and evidence-based rationale
• You will attract, develop, and retain high-performing technical hardware product leaders and systems engineers, creating clear expectations, career paths, succession plans, and opportunities for broader technical leadership
• You will build a scalable Product Systems & Integration operating model with consistent practices, metrics, governance, and lessons learned across new product development, platform evolution, and sustaining programs
• You will strengthen technical readiness for engineering and clinical builds, design reviews, verification and validation, phase exits, manufacturing transfer, regulatory submissions, and commercial launch

What makes you successful:

• You have demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineering or systems organizations that deliver complex, safety-critical, regulated products from concept through commercialization
• You bring strong systems engineering depth in product requirements, architecture, interfaces, integration, technical risk management, verification strategy, and design controls
• You bring practical design-for-six-sigma experience and can use structured engineering methods to improve product robustness, requirements quality, verification strategy, and manufacturing readiness
• You have the technical breadth to guide decisions across hardware, firmware, sensors, algorithms, mechanical systems, manufacturing processes, and connected product interfaces
• You bring experience in medical devices or another highly regulated industry; experience with connected wearable products, high-volume manufacturing, reliability engineering, or transmitter systems is strongly preferred
• You have experience building strong teams, developing senior technical leaders, clarifying roles, and creating operating mechanisms that improve execution without adding unnecessary process
• You are a strong mentor and coach who develops direct team members and extends technical leadership across functions by raising capability, improving decision quality, and helping teams operate with clarity and accountability
• You are an effective technical decision-maker who can frame complex tradeoffs, work with executive leadership to establish direction and solve problems, and synthesize complex technical concepts into clear, simple messages for engineering, executive, and cross-functional audiences
• You have successfully led through influence in matrixed organizations and can establish accountability across functional, program, quality, regulatory, operations, and supplier teams

What you’ll get:

A front row seat to life changing CGM technology. Learn about our brave #dexcomwarriors community. A full and comprehensive benefits program. Growth opportunities on a global scale. Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement. An exciting and innovative, industry-leading organization committed to our employees, customers, and the communities we serve.

Travel Required: 15-25%

Experience and Education Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field required. Typical requires a Bachelor’s degree with 15+ years of industry experience Requires a degree in a technical discipline 9+ years of successful management experience in relevant industry.

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Salary: $209,600.00 - $349,300.00 #DexcomUS Since 1999, Dexcom has simplified and revolutionized diabetes management, positively impacting millions worldwide. At Dexcom, we're more than just a medical device company; we're a collective of visionary thinkers, trailblazers, and problem solvers. Our mission transcends the ordinary. We aim to revolutionize healthcare, one groundbreaking technology at a time.