Lead the Future of AAC Product & Engineering Innovation - Join PRC-Saltillo as our Vice President of Product & Engineering!
As the Vice President of Product & Engineering, you'll lead product development and engineering across our hardware and software portfolio, translating customer and clinical needs into accessible, safe, reliable AAC products, components, and accessories. As a member of the Executive Team, you'll connect product and platform decisions to business priorities while maintaining accountability for delivering releases on time, within approved budgets, and to required quality and regulatory standards. If you're an experienced product and engineering leader who excels at developing teams, guiding integrated hardware and software portfolios, and turning customer needs into high-quality products, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact while helping shape the future of communication technology.
Go to our website to apply:
https://prentkeromich.bamboohr.com/careers
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Owns and delivers a coherent product roadmap, guiding roadmap sequencing, release priorities, product requirements, and customer and clinical value tradeoffs within agreed strategy and budgets.
- Leads integrated hardware and software delivery across Product, Engineering, QA, R&D, and Project Management, maintaining accountability for schedules, costs, quality, dependencies, and release commitments.
- Guides architecture, technical standards, scalability, reliability, lifecycle planning, and technical debt tradeoffs while developing a credible innovation pipeline for future AAC products.
- Ensures accessibility, safety, quality, security, and applicable regulatory requirements are incorporated throughout product development, verification, validation, and release.
- Leads and develops product and engineering leaders, aligns staffing and resources with portfolio commitments, manages approved budgets, and strengthens cross-functional collaboration.
- Serves as a member of the Executive Team, connecting product and engineering priorities with broader operational, financial, strategic, and business decisions.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, product development, or a related field is required. Equivalent relevant experience may be considered. MBA or advanced degree is preferred.
- 10+ years of experience leading mid-sized product and engineering organizations, including experience leading through managers, developing leaders, and overseeing integrated hardware and software teams is required.
- 10+ years of experience setting product and platform direction, managing roadmaps and budgets, prioritizing a portfolio, and delivering cross-functional releases from requirements through validation, manufacturing or deployment readiness, and ongoing lifecycle support is required.
- Working knowledge of hardware and software development, system integration, quality and regulatory considerations, and technical and commercial tradeoffs involved in build, buy, and partner decisions is required.
- Experience with AAC, assistive technology, accessible products, durable medical/regulated products, or other customer-critical products is preferred.
- At least 3 years of experience with product markets outside of North America is required; 5 years of experience is preferred.
Required Skills and Abilities:
- Strong organizational and portfolio-management skills with the ability to coordinate integrated hardware and software programs, dependencies, capacity, milestones, budgets, and delivery commitments.
- Ability to prioritize competing initiatives and make portfolio tradeoffs while aligning capacity and resources with product and business priorities.
- Strong ability to set product and platform direction, evaluate architecture and lifecycle tradeoffs, and translate customer and clinical needs into actionable requirements and roadmap priorities.
- Proven ability to lead and develop product and engineering leaders and cross-functional teams while establishing clear accountability and effective delivery controls.
- Sound judgment related to accessibility, safety, reliability, quality, security, and applicable regulatory requirements while balancing innovation, technical debt, customer value, and business needs.
- Excellent executive communication, problem-solving, negotiation, and influence skills with the ability to align Product, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Service, Compliance, and business leadership.
