Product Technical Lead
Dyson · Shenzhen
1. Overview
Dyson's products operate at the cutting edge of engineering, integrating complex technologies to deliver leading performance and world-class reliability. As we integrate an ever-increasing number of these technologies into our products, the management of the associated complexity becomes key to the success of the project. The Technical Lead is a key product leadership position in the Project Leadership Team, partnering the project Design Manager and taking ownership of the overall product technical delivery.
2. Detailed Job Scope (Roles & Responsibilities)
Technical Partner to the Design Manager
• Operating as the 'Technical Product Owner', the Technical Lead partners the Design Manager and is accountable for the ultimate delivery of the overall technical maturity of the project.
• They operate as the primary point of contact between engineering and category teams for technical discussions concerning the product level.
Technical Leadership
• They assume ownership of product level functional requirements and non-functional attributes and constraints such as safety, regulatory compliance and reliability.
• They work closely with the project DM/PM to ensure the technical deliverables at each milestone are appropriately set and the delivery timelines are realistically laid out.
• With their extensive breadth and depth of technical expertise, they lead complex, product level trade-off discussions to enable the correct engineering solutions for the product across multiple functional teams. These will often require nuanced understanding of complex subjects to enable teams to converge in the presence of conflicting information.
• Mentors and coaches junior engineers and technical leaders.
Technical Governance
• They collaborate directly with peers within the project team who would be engineering managers, project managers or subject matter experts at Associate Principal/Principal grades to set out the development strategy for the project.
• They are accountable for the appropriate and complete ownership of systems, sub-systems and no ambiguities at interfaces amongst engineering teams.
• They directly report technical readiness of the project to RDD Directors at the Phase Reviews against milestone deliverables prescribed in the Product Creation Framework.
• They chair and lead project Technical Reviews after each design iteration spanning all engineering functions.
Technical Status/Progress Reporting
• They periodically review and report technical readiness of the project from the perspective of correctness and completeness of requirements/specifications and closure of technical risk and issues.
Platforming
• Wherever practicable, they ensure that engineering systems are developed to offer platforming opportunities for future products. They would lead category wide initiatives (such as technology platforming) that would unlock efficiencies and opportunities affecting the product development road-map across the category.
3. Qualifications
- A first degree in mechanical/mechatronics/electrical/electronics engineering depending on the product/category of products in the portfolio
- A minimum of 6 years of experience in a product development environment ideally from early stage development through till the start of mass production.
- A combination of deep subject matter expertise within their fundamental engineering disciplines along with a demonstrable, broader appreciation and knowledge of other disciplines allowing them to collaborate and lead cross-functional work-packages essential for the successful delivery of projects. A peer-respected engineer with a reputation for delivering and for resolving complex technical challenges.
- A sound knowledge and experience of best practices in technical specifications, risk and issue management.
- Demonstrable experience of working on engineering problems involving cross-functional interactions and deliverables
- Demonstrable experience of undertaking engineering trade-off analysis and leading related reviews/discussions with the cross-functional stakeholders.
- An appreciation of systems thinking, systems engineering and project management tools and practices is desirable but not essential.
- Leadership skills - a demonstrable ability to lead cross-functional project teams in the resolution of product level risks and issues.
- A demonstrable ability to manage stakeholders accountable for product quality, reliability, safety, performance claims and compliance & approvals.
- An ability to persuade and influence at all levels in pursuit of technical excellence and timely project delivery
- Experience using Siemens Teamcenter is desirable.
- Excellent communication and reporting skills. An ability to report and communicate appropriate information at all levels from engineers to C-level executives.
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