Hardware Development Director; Req

Ross Video – Hardware Development Leader

Why Work at Ross Video? We have a great group of people working together to create and deliver cutting edge products that look amazing and are easy to use. We aim to deliver the best possible customer experience and quality results. With a product focus, continual learning, results driven processes, and creative thinking, we strive to improve our solutions and deliver results.

If you’ve watched live television, news, sports, or entertainment, you’ve seen our products in use. Major Hollywood award shows, many professional sports teams, and large broadcasters use Ross Video technology. Get behind the scenes and learn what it takes to make live events possible. If that resonates and you’re someone with integrity, commitment, and a strong drive to deliver great products, we’d love to hear from you.

The R&D Operations team provides support across the entire R&D organization, including program status reporting, bridging R&D and manufacturing, training programs, process development, tools development and support, test automation, centralized support coordination, site-wide social activities, patent applications, and other activities to help the R&D team be effective. We work with facilities, finance, manufacturing, tech support, sales, marketing and IT/IS.

We are looking for a seasoned and influential Hardware Development Leader with experience in hardware development (PCB, Electrical, Layout, Mechanical) who will serve as a technical coach and organizational catalyst—helping teams elevate practices, accelerate delivery, improve quality, align on modern development tool chains, and embrace AI-assisted engineering. This role guides engineering excellence across the product lifecycle—from ideation through development, launch, scale, and end-of-life with strategic direction and continuous improvement.

This is a leadership position that influences through expertise and credibility rather than formal reporting lines.

Your mission: empower teams, enable improvement, and help them build exceptional products—without weaponizing metrics or process.

Who you report to:
Sr. Director R&D Operations

Ross offers competitive salaries, comprehensive health plans, and several perks to help you perform at your best. Perks include flexible hours, generous paid time off, fitness/wellness allowance, an employee share ownership program, development support, and a ton of social activities. You will be part of the Ross Video family in an energizing environment.

Strategic Cross-Team Coaching & Leadership

• Define and own the long-term Hardware Engineering Excellence Strategy, staying ahead of tools, platforms, and engineering practices.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year engineering maturity roadmap spanning tooling, processes, automation, AI augmentation, and cross-team collaboration.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads to improve decision-making, design effectiveness, and collaboration.
• Lead cross-team shift-left transformation programs to improve predictability, quality, innovation velocity, and engineering culture.
• Ensure best practices, tools, and processes support every hardware lifecycle phase—from concept through production, maintenance, and end of life.
• Facilitate design reviews, retrospectives, and improvement workshops across teams and with cross-functional root cause analysis.
• Tailor guidance to each team’s product domain, maturity level, and workflow.

Technical Cross-Team Leadership

• Act as a trusted advisor to multiple hardware teams on architecture, system design, manufacturability, validation, and lifecycle management.
• Monitor industry trends and advise executives on the future of hardware development.
• Support teams in addressing technical debt, obsolescence, reliability, and cost optimization.
• Encourage design reuse across teams for common functions.
• Champion robust methodologies including DFM, DFT, DFR, risk assessment, and structured validation.
• Collaborate with Component Engineering, Change Management, Product Safety & EMC Compliance, manufacturing and supply chain to ensure manufacturability and lifecycle…