Director Hardware Engineering, Consumer TelePresence

The Emerging Technologies Group (ETG) focuses on creating solutions in new and adjacent technology markets, and is looking for high energy, high impact individuals who want to help shape Cisco’s future in the consumer market by building our next $1B business.

Consumer TelePresence is a new Business Unit in ETG, and we are currently seeking a Director of Hardware Engineering to help build a hardware engineering team and lead us through the early growth stage to becoming a significant business. CTBU will bring to market a breakthrough, consumer version of TelePresence which will provide a unique, in-person experience over the internet.

Responsibilities:

• Define product hardware architecture and system level designs based on product requirements and business model
• Design complete solutions by partnering with the software engineering team - make appropriate performance, time to market and cost trade-offs
• Hire and develop a world-class consumer hardware engineering team
• Develop and adhere to resource plans, schedule, and budget
• Meet defined cost targets to deliver expected margins and reach consumer price points
• Work with the industrial design team to ensure constraints are met in developing compelling consumer designs. Constraints could include size, cost, complexity or time to market.
• Work with supply chain and manufacturing operations to deliver products through high volume manufacturing processes – design for manufacturability and ensure team develops appropriate test systems
• Establish and drive relationships with key suppliers, understanding their technology roadmap
• Collaborate across business units and organizations to leverage and extend the company's technology portfolio
• Make strategic trade-offs in make-buy-partner technology decisions
• Drive to develop and protect intellectual property for market leadership

Requirements:

• Five or more years of experience as a director of engineering in the consumer electronics market, bringing multiple successful consumer hardware products to market.
• Ability to work in a start-up environment within a larger company – requires the ability to think out of the box while leveraging resources in other parts of the organization
• Ten or more years of experience in the role of engineering management with experience in leading a team of engineers in a consumer electronics company.
• Five or more years of experience with video, audio products and solutions. Experience with video and audio hardware/systems particularly desired.
• Very high technical competence, individual technical accomplishments with repeated, proven track record for product delivery
• Entrepreneurial drive, demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast paced environment
• Strong leadership and management skills, ability to deliver results with a small, fast-paced team, and ability to work across teams
• Strong ability to stay in sync with key customer requirements and deliver products to meet requirements, making appropriate trade-offs
• Demonstrated experience in building high performing, productive engineering teams
• Strong inter-personal skills and teamwork