Director of Connected Home IoT Product Line

Job description
Overview
Our vision is beyond a connected home, rather a smarter home where technology is your friend. The Corporate Product & Technology team is focused on next generation innovative sensing, monitoring and control platforms within the home ecosystem; we solve real life problems and bring improvements to the masses.


As a key contributor and leader within this team, you will be involved in every aspect of next generation platform design and implementation efforts (customer engagements, concept, hardware & software design & development). Here you will continue to develop your deep understanding of UEI’s core technologies as well as smart home industry and technology trends. You will always be faced with a new puzzle to solve, technology to study and limitation to work around. Your influence on our product development will help us advance and expand across industries.


We are all students here, and we do what it takes to achieve the goal. We are looking for a hands-on fellow scientist to join the fun. Our cloud services already serve billions of transactions every year, our connectivity software has reached over a half of billion devices, and we are just getting started!


Responsibilities
The Director of Connected Home / IoT Product Line Owner & Architect is responsible for translating consumer needs into corporate hardware products, platforms and technologies. This requires end-to-end responsibility for product definition, architecture, and driving a successful implementation to translate customer needs into viable & unique solutions that UEI can offer.

Define and implement product roadmaps for our expanding range of corporate hardware platforms and products ranging from low power wireless SoCs, advanced wireless devices such as sensors, smart thermostats, as well as newer/futuristic hardware products
Engage with global commercial teams, and strategic customers to identify common consumer and industry needs to address
Drive multiple cross department multiregional designs from concept through realization (hands on in every aspect of the process)
Study and benchmark emerging technologies and solutions to define technology roadmaps
Design and develop innovative & highly optimized solutions integrating advanced communication and navigation technologies for a connected home ecosystem
Additional Tasks
Collaborate and discuss new technologies and approaches with technology partners and customers
Build strategic customer & vendor relationships
Write product specification document for sales purposes
Work with Cost Management Engineering on unit costing and with Sales to develop pricing
Define and document detailed product features, functions, and requirements
Manage Engineering and Project/Product Management in initial phase
Travel with Sales to strategic customers in pre-production phase in order to assist in selling the technical concept of the product
Support technology introductions and new product launches at global trade events
Requirements
Self-motivated & a Leader, Innovative and a passion for results!
BS/MS in an Engineering discipline preferred, other areas of study may be considered
Extensive experience in Embedded Wireless product design, including embedded software, firmware, hardware, and low power wireless communication ecosystems in the smart home
Full product life-cycle ownership from concept to production for internal product concepts to external customer-driven designs
Experience & Passion in Consumer Electronics, Human-Machine Interactions, etc.
experience with wireless communication standards, e.g. Bluetooth Low Energy, Zigbee, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Thread, Z-Wave, etc.
Experience in design of high volume highly optimized products and solutions for connected home use cases
Comfortable with C-level interactions
More Info
Reports to SVP Product & Technology
Ecolink Family: www.discoverecolink.com
QuickSet Cloud: http://quicksetcloud.com
UEI Corporate: www.uei.com


Please send resumes to mmcelroy@uei.com


Universal Electronics is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer!






Seniority Level
Director

Industry
Consumer Electronics Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing
Employment Type
Full-time

Job Functions
Engineering Management Product Management