Vice President, Systems Engineering

Key Responsibilities Systems Engineering Strategy & Leadership

• Develop and execute the company's systems engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Build and lead a high-performing global systems engineering organization.
• Establish systems engineering standards, methodologies, tools, and best practices across all product categories.
• Drive organizational maturity in systems thinking, architecture development, requirements management, and technical decision-making.
• Serve as the senior technical authority for complex cross-function product development programs.

• Lead development of product system architectures for current and future appliance platforms.
• Ensure alignment between customer needs, business objectives, technical requirements, and product performance targets.
• Drive platform strategies that enable scalability, reuse, and technology leverage across product families.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their impact on future product roadmaps.
• Guide critical design trade-offs involving performance, cost, manufacturability, reliability, and user experience.

• Establish robust processes for capturing, decomposing, and managing product requirements.
• Ensure end-to-end traceability from customer needs through design verification and validation.
• Lead integration efforts across mechanical, electrical, embedded software, firmware, cloud, connectivity, AI, and user experience domains.
• Resolve complex cross-functional technical issues and integration challenges.

• Oversee system-level verification and validation strategies.
• Ensure products meet functional, performance, regulatory, safety, reliability, and customer experience requirements.
• Partner with Quality and Reliability teams to improve product robustness and reduce field failures.
• Establish metrics and governance processes to monitor product performance and technical risk.

• Implement technical review processes and engineering gate criteria.
• Lead technical risk management and mitigation activities across product portfolios.
• Establish system-level KPIs and engineering performance metrics.
• Ensure consistent engineering execution across multiple development programs and global teams.

• Recruit, develop, and mentor world-class systems engineering talent.
• Build organizational capabilities in architecture, modeling, simulation, requirements management, and systems integration.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with engineering leaders to strengthen technical career paths and succession planning.

• Partner closely with Product Management, Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, and Supply Chain teams.
• Influence strategic product decisions through technical insights and data-driven recommendations.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to executive leadership and business stakeholders.
• Represent systems engineering in executive reviews, strategic planning activities, and customer engagements.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required.
• Master's degree in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field preferred.
• Advanced technical or business degree (MBA, PhD) is a plus.

• 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience.
• 10+ years leading complex multidisciplinary product development programs.
• Significant experience in consumer products, consumer electronics, home appliances, robotics, connected devices, or related industries.
• Proven experience leading large technical organizations and managing senior engineering leaders.
• Demonstrated success delivering products from concept through commercialization.

• Systems architecture and product platform development.
• Requirements engineering and traceability.
• Verification and validation methodologies.
• Reliability engineering and risk management.
• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
• Embedded systems, software-enabled products, and connected ecosystems.
• Mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing integration.
• Product lifecycle management and engineering governance.

The annual salary range for this position is $265,000 — $325,000 USD.

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Health savings accounts (HSA) with company contribution
• 401(k) retirement plan with matching
• Employee stock purchase program
• Life insurance
• AD&D
• Short-term disability insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Generous paid time off
• Company holidays
• Parental leave
• Identity theft protection
• Pet insurance
• Pre-paid legal insurance
• Back-up child and eldercare days
• Product discounts
• Referral bonus program
• and more.

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