Director, Product Systems & Integration

Dexcom Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 349,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexcom Inc. is seeking a Director of Product Systems & Integration to lead hardware product ownership, systems engineering, and cross-functional integration across software, electrical, mechanical, firmware, sensors, and processes.

The role centers on translating product intent into integrated, reliable medical devices from concept to commercialization. You will establish clear technical ownership, drive design controls and risk management, and mentor senior technical leaders while ensuring

Qualifications

• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering or systems teams.
• Strong systems engineering depth: requirements, architecture, interfaces, integration, risk management.
• Practical design-for-six-sigma and structured engineering methods.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Product Systems & Integration organization, includingHardware Product Owners and systems engineers.
• Establish clear product-level technical ownership and decision rights across multiple functions.
• Own hardware product requirements, architecture, interface definitions, and end-to-end traceability.
• Drive cross-functional technical integration across software, electrical, mechanical, firmware, and supplier teams.

Skills

Systems leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical decision-making

Design-for-six-sigma

Mentoring leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Technical discipline degree

Job description

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.
• Typically 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.

Please note: The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Management may, at its discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The duties and responsibilities in this job description may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Dexcom’s AAP may be viewed upon request by contacting Talent Acquisition at [e-mail].

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Dexcom Talent Acquisition at [e-mail].

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Salary:

$209,600.00 - $349,300.00