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Raycon
Director of Product (Hardware, Electronics)
Skills
Product ManagementTesting & QAR
22 days ago
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Salary:
$110,000 – $170,000 / year
Location:
New York, NY, USA
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
3 October 2026
What they need
- We’re hiring a Director of Hardware to run Raycon’s product engine: a fast, capital-disciplined motion that launches 10+ new product bets a year, scales the proven winners, and shuts down the rest
- You’ll own the lineup strategy, the product briefs, the component decisions, and the post-launch product health loop, while personally leading core categories as the senior PM
- You’ll be managing many SKUs in parallel rather than spending years on one. Speed, judgment, and ruthless prioritization matter more than perfect plans. This role reports to the VP of Product and is positioned to grow into broader product and engineering leadership over time
- Reports to the VP of Product. Active in a player-coach role: manages the PM team while personally owning our most key products. Has a clear runway to eventually oversee Engineering
- Run the Product Engine: Own the cadence of 10+ test launches per year. Set the gates, the kill criteria, and the capital envelope per bet. Most bets should die. The few that prove demand and unit economics get scaled
- Scale Proven Winners: Identify which products have earned investment. Drive toward 4.3+ star ratings through targeted R&D, component upgrades, firmware quality, and fit improvements
- Product Briefs & Requirements: Set the bar on upfront thinking. Every product starts with a tight brief: customer pain, target buyer, must-win features, anti-features, cost target, quality bar, kill criteria
- Component & Architecture Decisions: Lead component selection across drivers, chipsets, batteries, mics, and materials
- Player-Coach: Personally lead core categories as the senior PM. Own the spec, the schedule, and the tradeoffs on our most strategic category
- Launch Readiness & Post-Launch Health: Own the gate criteria for EVT, DVT, PVT, and MP. Own the first-90-day product health dashboard on every launch
- People Leadership: Manage, coach, and grow the PM team and design contractor. Set the standard for what good PM work looks like at Raycon
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Bring clarity across Engineering, ID, Ops, Marketing, and CX
- A Day in the Life: Sample projects may include the below
- Reviewing weekly Amazon, return, and BSR data, digging deeply into potential root causes of customer feedback, and driving clear go-forward resolutions with team members
- Running a Raycon Labs product session: which two of these five concepts get validation, and which three get killed
- Reviewing component selection for an upcoming product refresh and working directly with the component vendors to drive quality
- Working with our vendor on a cost-down for a Fitness SKU heading into DVT
- Coaching a PM through a launch sequencing call with Marketing on a Q4 retail drop
- What Success Looks Like:
- 10+ new product bets launched per year, with clean kill or scale decisions on each
- Every proven winner in the lineup at a 4.3+ Amazon rating within 12 months
- Average launch cost per bet inside the capital envelope (sub $25K all-in per test)
- PM team retained, developed, and producing visibly better specs and decisions quarter over quarter- Shipped multiple consumer audio products at scale
- Clear, opinionated written communication. Your briefs, PRDs, and vendor emails leave no ambiguity
- Engineering degree preferred (ME, CS, Acoustics, EE) but not required. Fluency matters more than the credential
- 6+ years in consumer hardware product, with 2+ years managing PMs or program leads. This role is title-flexible. Strong candidates may come from Product Management, Hardware Product Leadership, or senior engineering with program ownership
- Deep experience working with OEM and JDM partners overseas. Comfortable managing many products in parallel, not just one deep program
- You get sh*t done when things are messy, ambiguous, or broken
- Track record of moving customer-perceived quality (Amazon ratings, return rates, NPS, review sentiment), not just internal QA metrics
- Have launched, scaled, or killed products based on early signal. Ruthless about applying kill criteria when the data says stop
- Comfortable making tradeoff calls with incomplete data and defending the call later- 1. Initial Call: Intro with a team member focused on culture fit and your experience (30 minutes)
- Case Study: A practical exercise tailored to the role, designed to highlight how you think and create
- Final On-site Round: Visit us in the office, meet the team, and learn more about our cross-functional team leaders
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