Head of Technology Development & Verification
Core
Senior leadership role responsible for building, scaling, and operating the Technology Development & Verification function across China, ensuring alignment with global standards while adapting to local realities.
Role type
Senior leadership IC / Functional Head
Builds
Technology Development & Verification capabilities, teams, and operational infrastructure in China
Domain
Consumer electronics engineering, product development, verification, and validation
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Strategic leadership in complex matrixed organizations, stakeholder management and influence without authority, organizational development and talent pipeline building, cross-functional collaboration, resource allocation and prioritization, operational enablement and site readiness management
Preferred skills
Scaling engineering teams and sites, experience across multiple product categories, deep understanding of product development verification and validation governance, experience operating within China-based engineering or supplier ecosystems
Technologies
Engineering governance frameworks, product development lifecycles, verification and validation methodologies
Responsibilities
Represent the function as the primary in-country leader and connect China needs to global leadership, coach local leaders and strengthen succession planning, allocate specialist capability across categories to maximize impact, drive site readiness by resolving barriers in facilities, safety, security, IT, and tooling, build a connected engineering community with shared purpose, shape the future operating model for the function as the organization scales
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic leadership scope