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Country Head , Engineering

Location: Chennai
Education: BE Or MS OR PhD with MBA
No. of Positions: 1
Business Group:
Industry: Embedded/Telecom Jobs
Posted date: 18th Nov 2011
Approx Hiring time in weeks: 0

Target Project/Product Details

Company Profile

My Client is a global provider of personal peripherals for computers and other digital platforms headquartered in Romanel-sur-Morges, Switzerland. The company develops and markets products like peripheral devices for PCs, including keyboards, mice, microphones, game controllers and webcams.

Skills

Key Skills:R&D , Hardware Design , Product Management , Thought Leadership
Must have Skills:R&D , Hardware Design , Product Management , Thought Leadership
Good to have Skills:SoC Design

Roles and Responsibilities

Key responsibilities

-      Provides strategic directions for collaboratively developing the vision and charter for the India center, in collaboration with the global stakeholders

-      Helps develop the strategic plan for India as a base to service other emerging markets with targeted solutions and products

-      Understands products and cares about customer experience with products

-      Provides directional leadership to teams performing a wide variety of Product Development, Software Engineering, Quality Assurance and Documentation tasks

-      Leads the development and implementation of the strategy for product and software design and development processes, tools and metrics

-      Participates in defining the strategic plans from a business and technical perspective on an annual basis with global stakeholders

-      Oversees multiple critical programs, tracks high-level status and makes adjustments as necessary to meet strategic objectives without slippages

-      Constantly seeks innovative ways to improve the overall productivity and quality of the global product development team

-      Manages the India center in a metrics driven, cost effective manner aligned to the defined charter

-      Responsible for attracting and retaining top talent

-      Responsible for building and motivating strong, world-class product development teams witha business focus

-      Relate to the Engineering teams from a technical and personal perspective

-      Imbibe the DNA of HQ in the India center across levels

-      Adapt to and leverage the differences inherent in a distributed development environment

-      Manage other supporting business functions and the dual reporting to the corresponding HQ team

 

Key Skills required:

-      Understanding of consumer electronics business and the next wave of growth as impacted by the advent of convergence of devices, cloud and other innovative business models a plus

-      Demonstrated experience of independently managing and growing the India center of a global technology organization

-      Experience in building and motivating an engineering team from the ground up into a substantial size in an aggressive timeline

-      Understanding of market needs, competition and partner products

-      Thorough understanding of software product architectures and development methodologies

-      Responsible for having strong understanding of customer needs and establish operational standards to exceed customer satisfaction, as well as possess the ability to translate marketing requirements into detailed design and development plans

Contact Details

Company Name:A Global provider of personal peripherals for PC , Mobility & Tablets
Contact Email: subhendu@handigital.com