Director Hardware Engineering
Toast is a rapidly growing startup building the first all-in-one restaurant management platform. Toast’s Android tablet based system helps restaurants operate more efficiently and connect with their customer base in new and innovative ways. We’re growing fast and have a customer base comprised of cafes, restaurants, bars and nightclubs across the country.
We are seeking a Director of Hardware Engineering who will be responsible for the following:
- Manage supply chain for existing product and lead team of hardware product managers and engineering contractors
- Manage the development of custom Android POS products to delight customers through ODM partnerships
- Develop strategic understanding of restaurant POS and competitive landscape
- Working with company founders and marketing experts, and key customers accounts, develop long term HW product plan
- Review, select and build strategic partnership with development and manufacturing partners
- Build out the hardware team and process to support longer term hardware strategy
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in leading the design and launching of hardware products
- Following skills are required: Bachelor’s degree or U.S. equiv. in Electrical Eng., Mechanical Eng. or related eng. field
- Experience with early stage technology development
- Leads through collaboration, demonstrated facilitation skills across different functions, motivated by collective success
- Experience building strategic partnership and managing hardware vendors and suppliers
- Strong understanding of hardware product development processes, from market research, user study, design, prototyping, production and post production quality support, including technical fluency across multiple engineering domains
- Proven experience in bridging the technical and business sides of hardware projects; and ability to understand technology trends and their impact to the product roadmap