Head of Product, Device (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States

Salary: $327,500–$375,000 per year, plus long-term incentives and potential variable compensation.

Company

hirify.global builds hardware, software, AI, cryptography, and identity technologies that help people prove they are human online while preserving privacy.

What you will do

• Define the long-term product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the device portfolio, including hardware platforms, accessories, operator experiences, and adjacent opportunities.
• Own product direction across the full hardware lifecycle, from concept exploration and architecture through development, validation, manufacturing, launch, and field iteration.
• Translate customer insights, operational data, technical constraints, manufacturing realities, and business objectives into product requirements, priorities, success metrics, and roadmap decisions.
• Partner with UX Design, Industrial Design, Hardware Engineering, Device Software, AI, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Privacy, Security, Market Operations, and executive leadership.
• Lead product readiness for launches, including quality, field validation, operational readiness, issue prioritization, and post-launch learning.
• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing product management team while establishing strong product practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience, including significant leadership responsibility for complex hardware and software products.
• Demonstrated success bringing products from early concept through production, launch, and global scale.
• Experience defining product strategy across hardware, software, AI, manufacturing, operations, and business considerations.
• Strong product judgment and the ability to navigate ambiguity, make principled tradeoffs, and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders.
• Technical fluency across areas such as consumer electronics, embedded systems, AI, biometrics, manufacturing, supply chain, reliability engineering, or global hardware deployment.
• Experience hiring, developing, and leading high-performing product teams; willingness to travel globally for users, operators, manufacturing partners, and deployment teams.

Nice to have

• Experience shipping consumer electronics, robotics, medical devices, identity systems, biometric technologies, or other complex hardware products.
• Experience with high-volume manufacturing, New Product Introduction, and hardware development lifecycles.
• Experience building products where privacy, security, trust, and reliability are core requirements.
• Experience partnering with Industrial Design and UX teams on integrated physical and digital experiences.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission focused on building trusted human identity technology at global scale while protecting privacy.
• Cross-functional collaboration across hardware, software, AI, cryptography, manufacturing, operations, privacy, security, and support.
• Healthcare, dental, vision, and mental health benefits.
• 401(k) plan and match, life insurance, flexible time off, commuter benefits, and a professional development stipend.
• Competitive long-term incentive package and potential variable compensation.