Head of Product, Device
Tools for Humanity is a technology company building products for humans in the age of AI. It contributes to World and develops proof-of-human hardware and software, including the Orb, alongside World App services for World ID and digital-asset management.
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About Tools for Humanity
Tools for Humanity is a technology company founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco and Munich. It builds and operates services including World ID App and World App, which provide interfaces for creating and using World ID, accessing Mini Apps, and managing digital assets through a self-custodial wallet. It also develops the Orb and Orb Mini proof-of-human hardware and software, using encrypted iris-imaging processes and open-source components, and leads design and planning for World Spaces.
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About the Role
You will define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a device portfolio. You will lead product direction from concept through manufacturing, launch, and field iteration; drive discovery; set requirements and success metrics; align cross-functional stakeholders; and build and mentor product managers.
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 for usability, reliability, quality, and customer trust.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, make principled tradeoffs, and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience partnering with design and engineering organizations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Technical fluency in disciplines such as consumer electronics, embedded systems, AI, biometrics, manufacturing, supply chain, reliability engineering, or global hardware deployment.
- Experience hiring, developing, and leading product teams.
- Willingness to travel globally.
Responsibilities
- Define the long-term product vision and roadmap for the device portfolio.
- Translate strategy, customer insights, operational learnings, constraints, manufacturing realities, and business objectives into product strategy.
- Own product direction across the full hardware lifecycle from concept exploration through in-field iteration.
- Drive product discovery through user research, field visits, operational data, customer feedback, and market understanding.
- Define product requirements, success metrics, priorities, and roadmap decisions.
- Partner with UX Design and Industrial Design to shape integrated user, operator, physical, and digital experiences.
- Collaborate with engineering, AI, manufacturing, supply chain, privacy, security, market operations, and executive stakeholders on product decisions.
- Lead product readiness for launches, including quality, field validation, operational readiness, issue prioritization, and post-launch learning.
- Build, mentor, and grow a team of product managers.
- Establish product practices and foster a culture of curiosity, rigorous thinking, accountability, and customer focus.
Benefits
- Healthcare benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Life insurance
- Flexible time off
- Commuter benefits
- Professional development stipend
