Senior Director of Platforms & Validation

Published: 6/14/2022

Engineering

Job Description

Lead the Future of Communication Technology – Join PRC-Saltillo as our Senior Director of Platforms & Validation!

At PRC-Saltillo, we're committed to helping individuals communicate, connect, and live more independently through innovative AAC technology. As the Senior Director of Platforms & Validation, you'll lead the strategy, development, validation, and quality of the hardware platforms that power our speech-generating devices. You'll work across Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, Quality, and Executive Leadership to ensure our products are reliable, compliant, and ready to make a meaningful impact in the lives of those we serve. If you're a strategic engineering leader who thrives on innovation, collaboration, and delivering high-quality products, this is an opportunity to shape the future of assistive technology while leading a talented technical organization.

Go to our website to apply: https://prentkeromich.bamboohr.com/careers

Why You'll Love Working Here

Mission-Driven Innovation: Lead technology that empowers individuals to communicate and connect with the world.
Strategic Leadership: Influence platform strategy, product direction, and organizational growth alongside executive leadership.
Collaborative Environment: Partner across engineering, product, manufacturing, quality, and service teams to drive meaningful outcomes.
Technical Impact: Shape the future of our hardware platforms, validation processes, and product quality standards.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Defines and drives the long-term strategy for the Company’s hardware platforms, including

mechanical, electrical, firmware, and device-level subsystem evolution.

Owns senior-level accountability for hardware platform architecture, system integration, validation, manufacturing readiness, and field quality outcomes.
Leads the Hardware Management team and associated engineering staff to ensure coordinated execution across mechanical, electrical, and firmware disciplines.
Leads validation and QA leadership to ensure effective product verification, validation, reliability testing, and release readiness.
Ensures that product requirements from individuals at the Product Management level are translated into executable engineering strategies and production-ready device platforms.
Drives alignment between product intent, hardware architecture, engineering execution, and manufacturing outcomes.
Establishes and maintains clear operating models, decision boundaries, and escalation paths across Engineering, Validation, Product Management, and Manufacturing.
Ensures device-level integration across hardware, firmware, accessories, operating environments, and supporting system dependencies.
Owns overall validation strategy and quality expectations for hardware platforms, including design verification, system validation, reliability, and root-cause oriented quality improvement.

Education and Experience:

Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related engineering field is required.
10+ years of progressive engineering experience in hardware, systems, or regulated product development environments is required.
7+ years of leadership experience managing engineering, validation, quality, or related technical teams is required.
Experience with product validation, reliability, quality systems, and regulated development environments is required.
Experience in medical device, assistive technology, or other compliance-driven product environments is preferred.

Required Skills and Abilities:

Strong senior leadership capability with demonstrated ability to lead leaders and build high performing technical organizations.
Deep expertise in hardware systems, mechanical engineering, electrical design, firmware integration, system validation, and device readiness.
Strong understanding of the full product development lifecycle, including design controls, validation, manufacturing transfer, quality, and sustainment.
Ability to align product strategy, engineering execution, validation rigor, and operational realities into coherent, executable plans.
Strong systems thinking, problem-solving, and technical judgment across multi-disciplinary product environments.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and influence skills across executive, technical, product, quality, and operations audiences.
Ability to make high-quality decisions under complexity, balancing customer value, risk, timelines, cost, and compliance requirements.
Strong organizational and financial management capabilities, including planning,

prioritization, budgeting, and resource allocation.

Commitment to quality, accountability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.