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 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
• Team Leading tasks:

1. Development support to SoC vendors integrating and extending their offering to include Bragi core functionality and AI Applications

2. Lead and manage multiple, concurrent customer projects focused on customizations and integrations of our hearable products

• Requirements analysis :
• Feature support of a SoC vendor
• Identify gaps between the vendors offering and Bragi’s support and vise 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
• Collaborating 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

• 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
• Team Leading tasks