VusionGroup SA is seeking a Director to own and drive strategic initiatives in the company's emerging technology portfolio. In this role, you will define, deliver, and scale computer vision-based solutions for Fortune 50 retailers, combining advanced optics, AI models, and custom hardware. You will operate at the intersection of deep technical complexity and customer-facing execution.
What You'll Do
- Own the long-term product vision and roadmap for computer vision solutions across the company’s emerging technology portfolio.
- Identify high-impact retail use cases where vision-based systems can deliver measurable operational and financial value.
- Balance innovation with deployability, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, and production ready.
- Define success metrics across accuracy, latency, robustness, cost, and customer ROI.
- Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle for complex CV systems, from concept and feasibility through pilot and scale.
- Partner deeply with engineering teams across Mechanical & Industrial Design, Electrical Engineering, Embedded Systems & Firmware, Optics & Imaging, Cloud & Software Platforms, and AI / Computer Vision & Data Science.
- Guide architectural decisions spanning hardware, edge compute, and cloud services.
- Ensure tight integration between data collection, model training, validation, and real-world performance.
- Work closely with field deployment and product operations teams to ensure solutions perform reliably in live retail environments.
- Engage directly with enterprise customers to validate requirements, gather feedback, and refine solutions.
- Translate customer pain points into clear technical and product requirements.
- Support pilots, proofs of technology, and early commercial deployments.
- Serve as the connective tissue between R&D, engineering, operations, and go-to-market teams.
- Clearly communicate product direction, tradeoffs, and progress to executive leadership.
- Establish processes that enable fast iteration while maintaining quality and accountability.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of experience in product management or product leadership roles.
- Strong technical background in one or more of: Computer Vision, Optics / Imaging Systems, Embedded or Electrical Engineering.
- Proven experience delivering end-to-end physical products that combine hardware, software, and AI.
- Demonstrated ability to work across highly multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Experience supporting real-world deployments of complex systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience delivering products for large enterprise or Fortune 50 customers.
- Prior work in retail environments (strongly preferred).
- Familiarity with camera systems and sensor calibration.
- Familiarity with edge AI inference.
- Familiarity with large-scale data collection and model validation.
- Familiarity with deployment at scale in uncontrolled environments.
Technical Stack
- Computer Vision
- Optics / Imaging Systems
- Camera systems
- Edge AI inference
Team & Environment
You will lead cross-functional teams across Mechanical & Industrial Design, Electrical Engineering, Embedded Systems & Firmware, Optics & Imaging, Cloud & Software Platforms, and AI / Computer Vision & Data Science.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
