Fitt Talent Partners is a specialized recruitment firm for top health and wellness companies.
We're filling this role for a client, a smart seating company founded by ex-SpaceX and NASA engineers, building dynamic, sensor-driven medical cushions that prevent pressure injuries and restore mobility for wheelchair users.
Role Overview
Hiring a Head of Engineering to lead its entire engineering organization. This is the technical leader who turns a team of exceptionally strong individual contributors into a focused, fast-shipping unit - the glue between leaderships vision and the realities of the lab and the production floor.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and hold accountable the entire engineering team - delivery, culture, morale, and accountability are all theirs
Bridge between leadership and the dev team - strategy gets communicated down, technical constraints get communicated up
Partner with the CEO and patent attorneys to actively draft and prosecute patents - this is a hands-on responsibility, not a hand-off
Hire and lead the engineer who will build our cloud connectivity and data platform
Collaborate closely with operations to ensure engineering decisions support our high-mix, short lead time manufacturing model
Ensure Sales & Marketing are kept abreast of timing, trade-offs, and impact of asks
Work with Finance on key programs for financial clarity
Leadership & Culture
Proven track record of adapting team culture as a company scales - maintaining morale and ensuring accountability through growth.
Builds teams that understand the customer deeply: engineers who talk to users and build with empathy.
Breaks down silos between engineering and the rest of the business.
Holds people accountable with clarity and respect - action items get closed, commitments get kept.
Holds strong opinions loosely and changes their mind when evidence warrants it.
Knows when to build vs. buy - allergic to reinventing the wheel.
Customer-obsessed: passionate about each customers experience, prioritizing the real need and iterating against it.
Qualifications
10+ years engineering experience with 3-5+ years leading engineering teams at a startup or growth-stage company
Hands-on background in electromechanical systems, embedded firmware, and connected hardware
Experience taking a hardware product and building the cloud connectivity and data platform around it
Proven track record of shipping complex hardware/software products on time and to spec
HIPAA or regulated data environment experience a plus