Principal Engineer - Product Lead, Hardware

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Description

• Workshop Venture Partners is a venture studio that partners with founders to build startups in climate and education. • Seeking an exceptional Principal Engineer and Product Leader to join our core team and play a pivotal role in our venture builds. • You are driven to deeply understand customers and their needs, translate that into the “why” of a product or service, build multiple throw-away prototypes, and turn the best into a compelling MVP. • Work closely with founders and designers to rapidly prototype, iterate, and scale new products based on customer insights. • Recruit, mentor, and guide early engineering and product teams as they grow, helping to establish best practices and a customer-centric culture.

Requirements

• 8+ years of combined software engineering and product management experience, with a track record of leadership in fast-paced, zero-to-one environments • Exceptional Hardware / Firmware development skills and product design capabilities, with deep expertise in at least one area (e.g., EE, FW, AI/ML, UX design) • Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies, domains, and customer needs • Strong product vision and experience translating customer needs into compelling product experiences • Comfortable with ambiguity and able to make pragmatic technical and product decisions in the face of uncertainty • Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for creating innovative solutions to complex problems and strong bias toward optimism • Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex technical and product concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences • Alignment with Workshop's values: • Co-founder mentality: Bring the perspective of having done this before, and be a "doer" that rolls up your sleeves to partner alongside founders • Tailored support: Provide full attention and resources to each founding team • Founder-first approach: Support and accelerate the founder's long-term leadership and journey