Director / Senior Director, Hardware Product Engineering

Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities. Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back?, as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations. To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.Location: Hong Kong Type: Full Time The Role As Director / Senior Director of Hardware Product Engineering, you will shape the hardware that puts a new category of active play into living rooms worldwide. You will own the end‑to‑end success of Nex Playground and its next generation — from early concept with Product Design through global‑scale manufacturing across a diversified supply chain. You will build and lead a hardware product engineering organization, guide the product's technical evolution, and drive the quality and innovation that families trust every day — at a company that's scaling very fast. The Mindset First‑principles, customer‑obsessed, decisive. Perseveres to the highest standards and challenges assumptions. Resilient through setbacks, coachable at every level. Grows engineers into owners and leaders. Empathetic, leads with trust, gives tough feedback, builds a culture of accountability. Executes with discipline, using data and experimentation to deliver uncompromising, high‑quality consumer products at scale. Success Looks Like Next‑gen hardware launched and ramping to millions of units across a diversified global supply chain — from US living rooms to EU and beyond. A team full of strong leaders who execute without heroics. ODM/JDM partnerships that deliver reliably while in‑house capability grows. The hardware families reach for every day — reliable, safe, and constantly evolving. Key Responsibilities Organization & Leadership Build a high‑pe...