Abbott
Head of Product Engineering
United States - California - Alameda
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About the role
- We are seeking an experienced and strategic Head of Product Engineering who can set the technical direction and roll up their sleeves to solve hard engineering problems.
- Serve as the principal engineering leader and hands-on architect for product-facing teams, translating product roadmaps and business objectives into a prioritized, executable engineering strategy
Responsibilities
- Actively participate in system design reviews, architecture decisions, and critical technical problem-solving not just as a reviewer, but as a contributor
- Define and own the SaaS architecture strategy for Lingo's consumer platform, including multi-tenancy models, API design, service decomposition, data pipelines, and platform scalability
- Build, lead, and scale a Product Engineering organization, including Frontend Engineers, Backend Engineers, Mobile Engineers, Full-Stack Engineers, and AI/ML Engineers across multiple product squads
- Identify technical debt, architectural risks, and organizational blockers to product delivery velocity and drive sustainable interventions to resolve them
- Own and continually improve engineering hiring, onboarding, and career development processes for the Product Engineering organization
- Champion engineering best practices like test-driven development, continuous delivery, API-first design, and design-for-reliability to optimize end-to-end product value streams
- Partner with Product Management, Data Science, and Design on roadmap prioritization, resource allocation, and capacity forecasting across product initiatives
- Define, manage, and report on engineering OKRs, KPIs, and delivery metrics; present progress and insights to senior stakeholders
- Ensure product engineering investments and AI systems maintain ongoing alignment with regulatory requirements, including HIPAA, GDPR, and FDA software guidance, in close partnership with Legal and Compliance
- Own release cadence, feature delivery readiness, and global deployment coordination with Platform Engineering and Product teams
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to translate engineering and AI complexity into clear product and business narratives for C-suite and board audiences
- Strong understanding of AI/ML system design considerations: model serving infrastructure, latency and cost trade-offs, evaluation and observability, data feedback loops, and safety constraints in sensitive domains
Nice to have
- Experience in high-growth scale-up or venture-backed environments, with exposure to rapid product and organizational scaling
- Hands-on experience with IoT or biosensor data ingestion pipelines, real-time analytics, or wearable device platforms
- Strong experience defining OKRs, KPIs, and capacity planning for high-throughput, consumer-facing platforms with high-availability requirements
- Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
- The base pay for this position is
- Product Development
- United States > Alameda: 2901 Harbor Bay Parkway
Skills
- Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life.
- Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
- Standardize tools, development processes, and engineering practices across product squads to improve alignment and delivery consistency
Compensation
- The base pay for this position is
Benefits
- Lead engineering effectiveness initiatives across the Product Engineering function, including team topology design, capability assessments, and engineering culture health
Equal opportunity
- Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
- EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf
- EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf
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