Head of Hardware

The Position

Over the last 5 years weve scaled from one group of engineers building a single product Framework Laptop 13 to now four groups building four product lines in parallel. Were now looking for an amazing hardware leader to help us continue to grow our product categories and our hardware team to achieve our mission.

As Head of Hardware youll lead and grow the 20 person hardware organization spanning electrical mechanical firmware/software and program management. We operate in a highly leveraged model (meaning our suppliers engineering teams are larger than ours on each program) so youll also be managing outwards and building strong relationships with our partners.

Youll own strategy and execution taking on responsibility for scaling our processes and engineering culture investing in our technology pipeline and managing and mentoring both new and experienced managers. Youll be hands-on holding a high bar of engineering quality while also setting long term direction.

Were a remote-first company but for this role our preference is a hybrid working-mode from either our San Francisco headquarters or our Taipei branch either scenario we would expect 10-20% domestic and international travel throughout the year to our offices and to our key partners.

What Youll Do

• Prepare our processes and engineering culture for further scale including advancing our NPI process setting standards for design reviews and improving our internal software tooling
• Partner with our ID operations marketing and other teams to align phase gates and deliver world-class consumer products
• Manage and mentor the managers across each functional team in our hardware organization
• Direct the engineering teams at our suppliers building a collaborative joint development model on complex products to improve quality and make product excellence repeatable
• Set and hold a high bar of performance and quality of engineering

What You Need

• Proven experience leading and growing multi-functional hardware engineering organizations building complex consumer products
• Familiarity and interest in building hardware in a highly leveraged JDM working model
• Expertise building distributed team processes that scale across countries and time zones
• Familiarity with building new products from a blank slate on efficient execution timelines
• A desire to be hands on and understand both the details of electrical mechanical and software implementation and the big picture of the product
• Experience managing mentoring and growing engineering managers

Whats Nice to Have

• Fluency in Mandarin
• Previous experience in a consumer electronics startup
• Familiarity with repair open source hardware and software and reducing the environmental impact of hardware products
• Working history with tier 1 ODMs for PCs
• A background in one or more of electrical mechanical or software engineering

What Youll Love

• Competitive salary equity and health benefits
• Paid company holidays plus 20 PTO days per year
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible work hours and locations including every other Friday off!
• 401K with matching for US employees
• The chance to work at a startup that is making a positive social and environmental impact

Equal Opportunity

We commit ourselves to the principles of equal employment and a diverse work environment. With inclusion being one of our core values at Framework we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender gender expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local laws. We will consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance.

We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process please let us know by reaching out to

The U.S. pay range for this role is $200000 - $268000 USD per year. The base salary range for this position may vary depending on various factors such as professional background work experience work location market demand certain circumstances the final offer may vary from the amounts shown in this job description.

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