Director / Senior Director, Hardware Product Engineering

Location: Hong Kong

Type: Full Time

The Role

As Director / Senior Director of Hardware Product Engineering, you will shape the hardware that puts a new category of active play into living rooms worldwide. You will own the end‑to‑end success of Nex Playground and its next generation — from early concept with Product Design through global‑scale manufacturing across a diversified supply chain. You will build and lead a hardware product engineering organization, guide the product's technical evolution, and drive the quality and innovation that families trust every day — at a company that's scaling very fast.

The Mindset

First‑principles, customer‑obsessed, decisive. Perseveres to the highest standards and challenges assumptions. Resilient through setbacks, coachable at every level. Grows engineers into owners and leaders. Empathetic, leads with trust, gives tough feedback, builds a culture of accountability. Executes with discipline, using data and experimentation to deliver uncompromising, high‑quality consumer products at scale.

Success Looks Like

Next‑gen hardware launched and ramping to millions of units across a diversified global supply chain — from US living rooms to EU and beyond. A team full of strong leaders who execute without heroics. ODM/JDM partnerships that deliver reliably while in‑house capability grows. The hardware families reach for every day — reliable, safe, and constantly evolving.

Key Responsibilities

Organization & Leadership

Build a high‑performing Hardware Product Engineering organization — grow engineers into owners and develop strong leaders

Partner across Software, Manufacturing, Sourcing, and Commercial to enable high‑volume production and global market access

Deliver results through ODM/JDM models while building strategic in‑house capabilities

Product & Technology

Single accountable owner of the core living‑room hardware product

Partner with Product Design from early concept to translate customer needs into feasible, scalable hardware

Drive hardware innovation, R&D, architecture, and key technology decisions

Delivery, Quality & Compliance

Own the product across its full lifecycle — deliver on scope, timing, performance, reliability, and manufacturability

Drive regulatory compliance, localization, and support supply chain diversification to fast-track international expansion

Lead field issue investigation, root‑cause analysis, and corrective actions to continuously improve quality and safety

Must Have

Significant experience delivering smart consumer electronics at scale

Strong background in embedded systems and hardware‑software integration

Experience leading engineering teams in high‑growth environments with product design, manufacturing, and sourcing partners

Proven experience with ODM/JDM partnerships

Strong working proficiency in spoken English and Mandarin (fluency strongly preferred)

Nice to Have

Experience with TV‑connected, gaming, or home entertainment hardware platforms

Experience with Android‑based consumer devices

Experience with camera systems

Experience building products for kids or families