Director, Hardware Engineering

• Department:
Product and Hardware Engineering

Company Description

Cricut® makes smart cutting machines that work with an easy‑to‑use app, an ever‑growing collection of materials, and crafting essentials to help you design and personalize almost anything — custom cards, unique apparel, everyday items, and so much more.

Overview

We believe everyone is born creative. We’re a diverse tapestry of thinkers, dreamers, givers, DIYers, handi‑workers, artisans, and forever and always architects of things.

At Cricut, we place the power of handmade into the hands of all. We give you beautiful, easy‑to‑master tools so you can make something unique, remarkable, perfect. We surround you with ideas, community, inspiration, and encouragement to take your creativity further than you ever imagined. And as a community, we celebrate the exhilarating act of making every single day.

So, make that handcrafted card that feels like a hug. Design a shirt for fun, for family, or for a full‑blown business. Craft with a passion or for a purpose. Make something big and bold, itsy‑bitsy, amazingly ambitious, or just plain silly. Whatever you make, just make your heart out. Because here’s the remarkable truth:
When we all make together, we make all things possible.

Let’s make.

Job Description

Job Description

Cricut is looking for a Director of Hardware Engineering who understands what it takes to make great products. This individual will be technically competent, passionate about the consumer experience and proficient at product development. You will be adept at developing a collaborative and highly competent engineering team where engineering creativity and passion can thrive. As a leader at Cricut you will be involved in and understand the details, but have a broader perspective to help identify and mitigate risks and issues that could inhibit our various projects and teams.

To be successful you will be a high performer with a rare and specific skill set who will thrive in a fast‑paced and demanding environment. Your ability to think critically, lead through intellect, bring out the best in your team, and to partner across a wide variety of functions at Cricut to drive change in a complex setting will be essential to the rollout of our offerings to the market.

Key responsibilities include:

• Help set and manage priorities among competing projects

• Hire engineers and project managers that are humble, hungry, and smart, and develop them into high‑performing teams that imbue the culture of Cricut into our products.

• Mentor the team in key aspects of product development including:
Risk Assessment, Project Planning, Troubleshooting & Root Cause Identification and Incident Management.

• Assist in developing the technology and product roadmap.

• Participate in identification and evaluation of new manufacturing partners

• Assist in the development of annual budgets

• Partner with , UX, Product Management, SW and other organizations in the successful design and development of new products

• Work hand‑in‑hand with Product Management throughout the development process, understanding the user needs and product objectives, while making sure they understand the development status, issues and challenges for the product

• Provide technical input regarding new and evolving product opportunities

• Research and contribute ideas for new opportunities to help people lead creative lives

• Help to maintain a database of product and tooling costs that can be used as a benchmark against future development efforts.

• Help project teams to work through critical issues and develop alternative actions to overcome the issues and maintain the schedule.

• Be involved in the prototyping, pre‑production and mass production of new or transferred products.

• Cultivate the Cricut Values both within the engineering team and throughout the organization

Qualifications

• As a minimum, must have a bachelor's degree in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering strongly preferred with a working knowledge of electro‑mechanical systems

• Strong technical aptitude and hands on management experience of a large team

• A proven track record as a team leader on complex projects

• The ideal candidate…