Head of Engineering

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 leadership's 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 customer's 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