As part of L-Acoustics' R&D leadership, the Director of Technology, Electronics will lead strategy and innovation within the Electronics R&D group, enhancing both the Research and the Product Development pillars.

This role involves building and managing the Technology team, collaborating with stakeholders, coordinating with other departments, and ensuring the successful advancement and readiness of L-Acoustics Technologies & Platforms to support the innovation and development of our products.

The Director of Technology will drive the innovation, development, integration, and adoption of Technology & Platform solutions. This includes exploring and integrating new technologies and methodologies, overseeing the development of platforms that support product innovation, and ensuring continuous improvement of R&D processes and methodologies.

More precisely the Director of Technology, Electronics will focus on:

Technology and Platform Strategy:

• Be a driving force in developing, integrating, and proposing technologies to support and enable research and product development teams.
• Develop and communicate a clear and achievable technology roadmap, aligning with business goals and responding to market demands, competitive pressure, and technological advancements.
• Ensure the delivery of technology and tools that enable a robust and mature project processes across research and product development, enhancing development capabilities, efficiency, and quality while setting solid foundations for future innovations.
• Define make-or-buy strategies and establish the right balance between internal development, co-development, and off-the-shelf acquisitions to support the technology roadmap. In line with this strategy, explore, assess, validate, integrate, and drive adoption of external technologies.
• Drive platform development to enable modular solutions that can be shared, adapted and scaled throughout R&D processes, cycles, and products.

Fostering Innovation and External Collaboration:

• Establish academic and industrial partnerships to drive innovation.
• Monitor industry trends and advancements continuously.
• Attend industry conferences and webinars to gain insights into the latest developments.
• Encourage cross-functional teams to explore new ideas and technologies.
• Stay updated on industry best practices and emerging technologies and infrastructure and share potential benefits within the organization.
• Implement a system for tracking and evaluating new technologies that could impact your industry.

Department Management:

• Structure, build and manage Electronics Technology teams.
• Manage budget and resource distribution.
• Promote a customer-centric mindset within technology teams.
• Foster a culture of innovation within technology teams.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Work together with the Director of Research and the Director of Product Development to create a high-performing Electronics department.
• Collaborate with the Directors of Technology in the Software and Loudspeaker Systems departments to co-build solutions across software, electronics, and loudspeaker products.
• Collaborate with other divisions on key development projects.

Qualifications & Personality:

• Master's degree in engineering or related field.
• Proven experience in a similar leadership role ideally in the audio industry for at least 10 years.
• Experience in transformative, fast-paced and growing environments with heightened innovation focus.
• Excellent project management and team leadership skills.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Capacity to influence at all levels of the organization
• Superior drive. Doer mentality.