Technical Project Manager - Shenzhen Based

Bragi was founded in 2013 and launched the world\’s first Truly Wireless Earphones in 2015 (yes a whole 12 months before the Airpods…)

Since then, we have evolved from a promising startup to a market-moving creator of innovative technology opening the new category of Truly Wireless Earphones. Bragi transformed into a software enabler for consumer brands focusing on scaling its technology after investing more than $90 million in software and AI.

Now we are a leader in the AI headphone space known for our smart devices that integrate seamlessly into users\‘ lives. With a focus on innovation and user experience, we are driving the evolution of wearable technology.

Technical Project Manager – Shenzhen Based

This is a remote role based in Shenzhen, China. This is a lead position and essential for building up Bragi R&D in China.

Tasks

• Lead a cross-functional development team of embedded mobile and QA engineers located in China.
• Communicate project status, risks, and dependencies to stakeholders at all levels, including executives.
• Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Proactively address project issues and escalate when necessary.
• Development support to SoC vendors integrating and extending their offering to include Bragi core functionality and AI Applications.
• Lead and manage multiple concurrent customer projects focused on customizations and integrations of our hearable products.

Requirements analysis

• Identify gaps between the vendor\’s offering and Bragi\’s support and vice versa in close collaboration with the product manager and your counterparts in Europe.
• Collaborate with the SoC vendor in the development of the Bragi FW extensions or Mobile libraries.
• FW Integration and validation with the Bragi Mobile applications.
• Support the communication between the customer and Bragi\’s R&D in Europe, identify and resolve blockers.
• Collaborate with the Mobile team to ensure compatibility between the Firmware and Mobile platform applications.
• Design, implement, and improve the support processes (documentation tooling).
• Support ODMs and test engineers (ODM at Bragi) as part of the Bragi certification program.
• Drive our projects by ensuring delivery meets requirements, schedule, budget, scope, and quality criteria including coordination of external partners (customers, suppliers, contractors).
• Ensure customer expectations are met or exceeded in timely updates, clear communication, and quality deliverables.

Requirements

• 8 years experience as a technical project manager.
• Strong leadership, organization, and team management skills.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into clear business terms for stakeholders.
• Experience in working with either of the following chipset vendors: JieLi, WuQi, Actions, Bluetrum, BES, Qualcomm, Airoha.
• Experience with production processes and support.
• Native Mandarin speaker with strong English reading and writing skills (suitable for engineering work) and a decent level of spoken English is mandatory.

Nice to have

• Prior experience as either embedded or mobile developer.
• Exposure to Bluetooth or other wireless communications protocols.
• Exposure to Android or iOS mobile development.

Benefits

• A complex project that is exceptionally challenging and will change how audio is consumed forever.
• Work hand in hand with worldwide known audio brands.
• A chance to deliver a delightful experience to 25m users in the next 12 months (existing base is 7m).
• A flexible Learning & Development program choose where you want to improve yourself.
• 10 professional coaching sessions with experts to support your growth.

Key Skills

Abinitio, Editorial, Account Management, Drafting, Android Development, Brokerage.

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

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