Sr. Product Engineer - SCOUT Campers
Reports To: CEO
Function: Design/Product Engineering
Role Purpose
Serve as the technical owner for the SCOUT product ecosystem, including truck campers, the developing trailer platform, and future adjacent product platforms. Lead technical direction while developing capable platform engineers beneath the role.
What You Own
- Technical ownership of the complete SCOUT product ecosystem.
- SCOUT product architecture, lifecycle, NPD roadmap, compliance, and major technical decisions.
- Technical leadership of truck camper and trailer platform engineering.
- Engineering release, validation requirements, product-level change approval, and technical BOM integrity.
- Own ERP and CAD model readiness for product release, ensuring engineering models, drawings, BOMs, part data, revisions, and released configurations are complete, synchronized, and production-ready.
- Technical resolution of product quality, field, warranty, supplier, and production issues.
- Leadership and development of the SCOUT Design Engineer and Product Engineer - SCOUT Trailers.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead SCOUT product strategy from a technical perspective and translate product intent into executable engineering requirements.
- Lead major NPD programs, architecture decisions, prototypes, design reviews, and technical risk management.
- Remain hands-on in modeling, prototypes, testing, troubleshooting, and critical design work.
- Ensure common systems, components, and design principles are leveraged across SCOUT platforms where beneficial.
- Provide technical oversight and decision authority for the trailer platform while delegating day-to-day platform engineering.
- Drive product simplicity, weight efficiency, durability, manufacturability, and differentiated customer experience.
Cross-Functional Responsibilities
- Operations and Manufacturing Engineering on DFM, process readiness, line launch, cost, and production issues.
- Quality on validation plans, NPD quality gates, root cause, corrective actions, and field/warranty learning.
- Supply Chain on supplier technical requirements, component selection, alternates, and technical issue resolution.
- Service, Sales, and Marketing on field feedback, customer requirements, product changes, and launch readiness.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, product design engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent directly relevant experience considered.
- Typically 7+ years of progressive product engineering experience, including ownership of complex physical products through development and sustaining phases.
- Strong 3D CAD, drawing, GD&T, BOM, configuration/change-control, prototype, and production-support capability.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical work without relying on a large program-management organization.
- Hands-on problem solver comfortable moving between CAD, prototypes, suppliers, testing, and the production floor.
- Experience in outdoor products, RVs, trailers, automotive, powersports, marine, or other design-led durable products preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multiple related product platforms while maintaining a coherent technical architecture.
What Success Looks Like
- SCOUT expands into new segments without losing technical coherence or brand/product simplicity.
- Platform engineers have meaningful ownership while technical accountability remains clear.
- Truck camper and trailer programs progress with disciplined validation and production readiness.
- ERP product data, CAD models, drawings, BOMs, and released configurations are aligned and ready before production release.
- SCOUT product quality, weight, manufacturability, and field performance improve over time.
- New product development remains fast and entrepreneurial without sacrificing engineering rigor.
Operating principle: Own the SCOUT technical ecosystem, empower platform engineers, and preserve simplicity as the portfolio grows.
