Matthews Marking Solutions LLC

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POSITION SUMMARY

Matthews Marking Systems is seeking a strategic Director, Hardware Product Development to lead our engineering teams in building innovative and market-leading solutions for marking and coding. You will apply your broad experience in hardware product development to bring strategic leadership to a globally diverse development team building both evolutionary and revolutionary products for the marking and coding space. Your experience allows you to bring both best practices and emerging technologies to bear for speed of execution and innovative solutions.
As Director of Hardware Product Development, you will report to the Vice President of Engineering. You will be directly influencing product and technology strategy at an executive level and be working cross-functionally to ensure high quality, market-focused products with superior customer experience. You will be building world-class engineering teams to tackle the next generation of hardware and software products. You will have the opportunity to shape the future of engineering at Matthews Marking Systems.
Matthews International is committed to keeping us and our families balanced and healthy with benefits like flexible hours, work-from-home options and unlimited PTO. Also: Health & Wellness plans, 401K with match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Employee & Child Tuition Assistance and much more.

The right candidate is passionate about:

  • Managing multiple concurrent engineering projects with a focus on schedules, budgets and resource allocation
  • Building product development team capabilities through resource analysis, hiring, mentoring and training
  • Assisting the development team to attain optimal performance by removing technical obstacles
  • Defining and implementing product development platforms and processes
  • Working with Product Managers and other leaders to define new products and coordinate development across multiple teams and groups
  • Collaborating with business leadership to define and execute goals, strategy and vision
  • Bringing diverse people, skills and perspectives together towards common project goals
  • Illuminating gaps, risks and options to drive more effective decision-making

You'll enjoy:

  • Collaboration with passionate, professional teammates dedicated to forward progress
  • Providing leadership, management, and technical vision to the hardware and software development teams and the company
  • Ground-breaking and challenging projects that pave our path for growth
  • Working with international teams and cultures
  • Being part of an emerging and creative team, backed by a global company with 170 years of experience

QUALIFICATIONS / REQUIREMENTS

  • 15+ years of progressive engineering experience and responsibility in manufacturing commercial products preferably with specific domain experience in printers or marking equipment
  • 5+ years in a leadership role
  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline, Master's preferred
  • Experience with both hardware and software product development, including embedded software
  • Experience managing joint development with third party vendors, outsourced development, as well as acquired engineering resources
  • Proven track record of hiring and recruiting technical talent
  • Experience in product lifecycle programs from conception to retirement, including New Product Development / Stage Gate for hardware and Agile for software or hardware
  • Strong desire to play a key leadership role in communicating and owning program success
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex program status into succinct updates for upper management while translating broad requirements into specific technical detail for development teams
  • Meticulous attention to details
  • An attitude that fosters cooperation across diverse functional and geographical teams

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PHYSICAL ASPECTS / WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Regularly required to stand; walk; sit; and talk, hear and see.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

* Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

In Product Identification, our Matthews Marking Systems and Evolution Inkjet brands are leading global providers of marking and coding solutions, including a full line of printing technologies, consumables and software, to meet branding, traceability and regulatory compliance needs for industrial and consumer products.

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At Matthews International, what makes us different is what makes us great. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Matthews International affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled.

Matthews International endeavors to make our employment website and application process accessible to all users and applicants. In doing so, Matthews International provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation or assistance completing the application process, please contact a member of our Human Resource Team.

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