THE COMPANY:
PAX Labs is an award-winning, consumer technology brand that supports responsible, adult use. Our products represent the gold standard in product quality and we aim to move the space beyond unfortunate stereotypes of cannabis users. Most of all, we want to be good stewards for a product and movement that enhances many people's lives.
Headquartered in San Francisco, PAX is backed by leading technology investors including Tiger Global and Tao Invest (Pritzker family fund). We are an exceptional team with hardware and software backgrounds in consumer technology, healthcare, and biotech, and are growing rapidly to deliver on our mission. Our internal culture values diversity, integrity, having an impact, and passion for the larger movement that PAX is a part of.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Reporting directly to the VP Hardware, PAX is looking for a Director, Hardware Engineering Project Manager (EPM) to lead the group of EPMs responsible for design, development, and support of Pax hardware products.
PAX EPMs are responsible for managing and communicating project definition, development milestones, project schedules, validation/FA/CA and project status in the development of new products. This role will immediately manage a small group of EPMs, be responsible for driving and establishing processes and best practices for engineering product development. This role will be a key gap-filler in the organization to ensure every aspect of our hardware team is running smoothly with great program management hygiene.
- Manage and grow our Hardware EPM team - experience and track record of hiring and retaining top talent from the industry
- Drive process development, improvements, and best practices consistent with building a "world class" hardware product development organization
- Oversee realistic program schedules that "plan to do it right," while ensuring high risk areas have mitigation strategies and actions in place
- Mediate between hardware and the rest of the PAX organization
- Step-in to manage programs or projects that don't have an EPM while hiring for a permanent role in parallel
- Cross-functional organization, communication, and management
- Drive strong program management hygiene including project meeting cadence, bug / action item tracking,
- Assuring clear and consistent presentations to executive leadership on project status and schedules
- Travel to support manufacturing builds and ensure factory engagement best practices are established
PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- 10+ years in consumer products and/or other product development
- 5+ years of people management experience
- Broad technical background
- Strong track record of shipping products and managing them through their entire life cycle
- Experience working with Asian manufacturing and supply chains including travel to manufacturing sites to run NPI builds
- Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and data analytics skills
- International travel is expected (~10%)
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL:
- Have seen multiple product cycles from start to finish and shipping consumer hardware at high volume (7 figures in terms of annual units).
- Be technical enough to easily grok a wide variety of issues - from firmware to UX, electrical to mechanical, reliability, manufacturing, and logistics.
Be a creative problem solver and make data-driven decisions.
Be hyper organized and you won't hesitate to fix something that's disorganized or broken.
Have a natural tendency to identify inefficiencies and take action to resolve them.
Effectively lead and influence others, driving decisions cross-functionally across the org.
Practice servant leadership and realize it's your first responsibility to unblock the team so they can move forward, while also focusing on coaching and mentoring them along the way.
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- Education
- BS in ME/EE, related discipline, or demonstrated equivalent experience.
- PAX LABS PERKS & BENEFITS:
- A place to grow your career. We'll help you set big goals - and exceed them
- People. Work with talented, committed and supportive teammates
- Equity and performance bonuses. Every employee is a stakeholder in our success
- Cell phone subsidy, wellness reimbursement, commuter benefits and discounts on PAX products
- Excellent medical, dental and vision benefits
- Location. Work in the heart of San Francisco
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