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Collar Tech Lead
Collar Tech Lead – Global Animal Health Technology Solutions
About the Anim monitoring Animals
Animal Health Technology Solutions provides global animal identification and monitoring solutions for companion animals and livestock. Our technologies empower pet owners to better manage their pets’ health and well-being, while helping livestock producers improve animal well-being and production efficiency.
Our Technology Solutions division delivers:
- Established product-market fit in Livestock Identification, Dairy, Beef, and Swine monitoring
- Emerging innovations in product discovery
We are transitioning to a Product Operating Model, empowering cross-functional teams (Product Manager, Technology Lead, Product Designer, Delivery Lead, engineers, developers) to deliver customer-centric value with full accountability.
Our products must meet four key principles: ✅ Valuable – Used by customers ✅ Viable – Aligned with business goals ✅ Usable – Intuitive for end-users ✅ Feasible – Achievable within technical constraints
Leadership is shared between the Product Manager and Technology Lead, ensuring a balance of product vision and technical execution.
Role Summary
As the Collar Tech Lead, you will provide technical leadership for animal wearable devices (collars), covering the full lifecycle from concept to mass production.
Key responsibilities include:
- Guiding technical design, execution, and scalability for robust, manufacturable, and reliable agricultural devices
- Partnering with Product Manager, R&D, NPI, Operations, Customer Success, and manufacturing teams
- Technical decisions in architecture, system integration, validation, risk management, and launch support
Key Responsibilities
1. Collar Technical Strategy & Design
- Collaborate with the Collar Product Manager and cross-functional teams to translate customer needs into technical solutions
- Lead architecture and system design covering: 🔹 Electronics & firmware 🔹 Mechanical design 🔹 Embedded software 🔹 RF communications 🔹 Integration & validation
- Ensure designs meet performance, reliability, manufacturability, and cost constraints
- Align collar development with Core Platforms, avoiding duplication of responsibilities
- Evaluate feasibility, complexity, and risk of proposed changes
- Monitor collar-specific KPIs (e.g., field failure rates, installation success, battery life, unit cost) to guide trade-offs
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2. Collaboration & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Engage with Customer Success, field teams, and end-users to identify pain points (installation, comfort, durability, reliability)
- Define experiments and trials for validation before full-scale implementation
- Collaborate with: 🔹 R&D functional managers & engineers 🔹 Product designers 🔹 NPI & Operations teams 🔹 Supply Chain & Customer Success
3. Validation, Quality, & NPI Readiness
- Balance speed-to-market with quality, robustness, and performance in harsh farm environments
- Partner with NPI and Operations for production launch, ramp-up, and mass production support
- Define validation strategies and technical acceptance criteria
- Identify and mitigate risks proactively
- Investigate field issues, resolve problems, and drive continuous improvement
- Stay updated on IoT, wearable technology, embedded systems, and industry trends
- Foster innovation while maintaining safety, reliability, and field performance
4. Performance & Accountability
- Own technical architecture and ensure customer outcomes are delivered
- Meet agreed performance targets (reliability, field failure rates, yield)
- Balance feasibility, reliability, manufacturability, and cost in engineering decisions
- Provide technical input for product decisions
Required Qualifications
- BSc/MSc in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline
- Minimum 5 years of technical leadership for hardware products in a multidisciplinary environment
- Minimum 5 years working in medium-to-large-scale companies
- Deep expertise in: 🔹 IoT architecture 🔹 Embedded systems 🔹 Hardware & mechanics 🔹 System integration & validation
- Experience developing mass-produced wireless IoT or wearable devices
- Full lifecycle product development experience (discovery → design → validation → mass production)
- Experience with global product teams, coordinating across multiple geographies
- Proven communication, presentation, and organizational skills
- Passion for solving real customer problems and delivering measurable field outcomes
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in geofencing, animal-tracking technology, or field-deployed hardware
Key Strengths & Mindset
- Matrix leadership – drive outcomes without direct authority
- Customer-obsessed focus – prioritize what matters to both customers and business, not just technical curiosity
- Problem-solving mindset – “can-do” attitude with a collaborative learning approach
- Stronger together – passion for collective innovation and leveraging diverse expertise
- Will/travel – prepared to engage with customers, field teams, and global R&D partners
Technical & Interpersonal Skills
| Required Skills | Preferred Skills |
|---|---|
| Change Controls | Problem Management |
| Risk Management | Release Management |
| Strategic Planning | Portfolio, Programme Support |
| System Designs | Comprehensive IoT/Hardware Nutrition |
EEO Compliance & Diversity
We are an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of:
- Race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin
- Protected veteran status
- Disability status
- EEO laws apply, including San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring
Diversity & Inclusion: We thrive on diverse perspectives and innovation through collaboration. Candidates with variegated backgrounds, skill sets, and experiences are encouraged to apply.
Terms & Conditions
- Employee Status: Regular
- Relocation: Domestic/International
- VISA Sponsorship: Yes
- No Travel Required?: ✅ ✅ (According to posted info)
- Selection Process: Original application lasts until 07/15/2026 (until 11:59 PM on the day before the posted end date).
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