At 6SensorLabs we’re developing life-changing products, enabling people with food allergies to trust their food. We offer you a unique opportunity to join an early stage, venture-backed startup with huge social impact potential. Our founding team members met at MIT and bonded over a passion to help people live healthier and happier lives, and moved to San Francisco to make that happen.
We're seeking self-motivated individuals who are passionate about the mission of our company, and thrive with the demands of an early stage startup. Translation: you dream big, you work hard, and you have a really great attitude.
Our team was born out of MIT and is backed by some of the top consumer and hardware VCs including UpFront Ventures, SoftTech VC, Mitch Kapor, Lemnos Labs and SK Ventures. If you're ready to change the world and be part of an awesome and diverse team that's going to ship life-changing products to thousands of people, we’d love to chat.
We are seeking a VP of Engineering who is passionate about the mission of our company, and can thrive with the demands of an early stage startup to lead our engineering team efforts. You have ideally previously worked with both consumer and medical device and or chemical products.
You can lead the high level strategy and support tactical work when needed, partnering closely with the engineering team on the most mission critical priorities. You will have an opportunity to work with a diverse, talented and experienced team of engineers across the following disciplines: mechanical, electrical, firmware, software and chemical.
Required Experience:
- At least 15 years in consumer product experience in an executive-level position
- Experience with chemical based products and/or medical devices is a plus
- Previous experience managing teams responsible for high-volume consumer applications
- Strong grasp of consumer electronics product manufacturing processes
- Experience with overseas manufacturing
- Extensive experience successfully leading hardware products from concept to product launch
- Passion for attracting outstanding engineers and building a world class team
- Successful candidates will have the following attributes:
- Extremely quality focused
- Consistent, clear, accurate communication
- Data-driven and having a bias for action
- Enthusiastic and motivated about launching a life changing consumer-health product
Your Role:
- Lead the diverse engineering team through product development efforts.
- Provide high level guidance and hands-on management of all release efforts, including: electromechanical, chemistry, hardware, embedded systems and mobile
- Develop timelines and roadmaps for current and future product development. You will be expected to manage the program and timelines throughout the product development process
- Execute on engineering development initiatives in a consistent and timely fashion
- Communicate regularly and accurately regarding timelines and milestones
- Recruit, mentor, and retain talented engineers to support the existing product and launch new products
- Align with the executive team to improve the development process, prioritize projects and manage multiple work streams
- Develop the long-term technical roadmap to simplify and streamline the existing technical infrastructure
- Manage team budgets and reporting metrics. You love to be lean and crafty with limited resources
- Manage internal/external contractors/consultants
Are you ready? Then send your resume to [email protected]! Please include the job title in the subject line and a blurb about why you're interested in the role.