Hardware Team Lead

How You Add Value
Are you passionate about leading a hardware team and creating the structure needed for high-quality product development? As a Hardware Team Lead, you play a key role in coordinating the day-to-day activities of the hardware team and ensuring priorities, processes, and ways of working are clear, effective, and aligned with business goals.

You help the team deliver reliable hardware solutions by bringing focus, planning, and consistency to the development process. Working closely with product management, project managers, systems engineering, software, quality, and external development partners, you ensure the team is organized, supported, and able to perform at its best.

This role combines team coordination, delivery focus, process improvement, and some project management support. You create the conditions for strong execution while continuously improving how the team works together and with others.

Your Responsibilities

Be the primary interface and first point of contact for internal teams and external partners into the Hardware team

Define, coordinate and manage the internal and external communication paths and processes

In collaboration with the project managers, coordinate the activities, priorities, and workload of the hardware team across development and maintenance projects

Translate business and project objectives into clear team plans, aligned priorities, and realistic execution timelines

Implement and maintain an effective risk management process

Build a structured and traceable approach to requirements, verification, documentation, and change management

Define clear interfaces and collaboration models within the organization and with our external partners

Help the team identify and remove blockers, manage dependencies, and escalate risks when needed

Monitor progress, quality, and delivery performance, and ensure actions are followed up

Contribute to resource planning and capacity management

Coach team members in effective collaboration, ownership, and disciplined execution

Foster a culture of continuous improvement, practical problem-solving, and reliable delivery

What You Bring

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Embedded Systems, Mechatronics, or a related technical field

At least 7 years of experience in hardware development, electronics engineering, or embedded product development

Experience in coordinating engineering teams or leading multidisciplinary hardware development activities

Strong understanding of hardware development life cycles, from concept and requirements through validation, release, and maintenance

Experience with project coordination, planning, prioritization, and risk management in a technical environment

Proven ability to implement or improve development processes, governance, and ways of working

Experience working with external development partners

Strong organizational skills and a structured, pragmatic approach to execution

Clear communication skills and the ability to align stakeholders around priorities and decisions

A quality-driven mindset with attention to long-term maintainability, reliability, and team effectiveness

What You Get
In Numbers

Competitive salary and benefits package

Flexible working hours and 30 vacation days, with the option to buy more

Travel allowance of €0.23/km (max. 150 km per day)

For Your Well-Being and Growth

Solid pension plan and participation scheme

Personal development budget and training opportunities

Healthy cafeteria

Free on-site gym with Cross Fit, Pilates, Spinning, table tennis, and table football

Our Culture and Values
At Priva, our mission is to create environments where people can work, grow, and thrive. We deliver sustainable solutions for horticulture and building automation that reduce resource consumption and contribute to global sustainability goals.

Our culture is built on four core values:
Sustainable, Innovative, Make it Happen, and Human.

Colleagues describe Priva as open, ambitious, innovative, friendly, and down-to-earth. We offer a flat, informal, and fast-paced environment where you are encouraged to take ownership and grow.

We believe diversity drives success. We welcome people from all backgrounds and perspectives and create a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to be their authentic self.

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