Senior Director of Product, Home Devices

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than computer code. As a member of the Dolby team, you’ll see and hear the results of your work everywhere, from movie theaters to smartphones. We continue to revolutionize how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that, we need the absolute best talent. We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits, not to mention a Flex Work approach that is truly flexible to support where, when, and how you do your best work.

 

Dolby’s consumer entertainment and cinema businesses are bringing Dolby’s breakthrough technologies, powering the world’s top movies, TV shows, music, games, and live sports to more places around the world across a wider range of consumer experiences and devices.

 

Dolby’s consumer entertainment and cinema businesses are bringing Dolby’s breakthrough technologies, powering the world’s top movies, TV shows, music, games, and live sports to more places around the world across a wider range of consumer experiences and devices. To deliver these experiences in the home, we provide audio solutions to designers and manufacturers of home entertainment devices like TVs, Set-top boxes (STBs), Digital Media Adapters (DMAs), soundbars, AVRs, wireless speakers, and to providers of ICs and Operating Systems that power these devices.

This role will be responsible for growing the audio business in terms of revenue and scope of products.

 

Dolby is seeking an accomplished and visionary Senior Director to lead the Audio business within Home Devices. This role will be focused on building and expanding on the largest business in the consumer entertainment products area. Within Dolby, this role has primary responsibility for products for and revenue from the Home Audio business. You'll be responsible for setting the vision for your business and for executing towards fulfilling that vision. This involves communicating your strategy to the broader organization and ensuring that it is well understood. Success is defined as maximizing the impact of Dolby Atmos, Dolby AC-4 and Dolby FlexConnect.

The successful candidate for this role will act with the mindset of a general manager in a functionally organized company. You will collaborate with other key functions (content ecosystem teams, engineering, research, marketing, sales, customer support, finance, legal) to deliver value to the industry and grow the Dolby business.

In this role, you will be responsible for defining and executing the long-term vision and strategy for the Audio portfolio, managing product roadmaps, and driving execution across the organization and driving business success. The portfolio currently includes:

• AC-4, Dolby’s foundational audio codecs that are built into billions of consumer electronics devices. AC-4 significantly improves compression efficiency compared to previous standards, allowing for higher audio quality at lower bitrates, and is designed for various delivery methods, including broadcast, streaming, and mobile networks.

 

• Dolby Atmos, an object-based, immersive audio format that provides amazing, scalable sound experiences on Dolby Atmos-capable devices. Increasingly, Movies and TV shows are available with Dolby Atmos, and we are driving massive growth in Dolby Atmos Music. There is increasing demand to bring Atmos music experiences everywhere in the house.

 

• Dolby Atmos FlexConnect, technology that gives users the freedom to place wireless speakers anywhere in a room, enabling an incredible Dolby Atmos experience without having to place speakers in prescribed (canonical) positions. In addition to location, FlexConnect adjusts for differences in speaker capabilities, allowing “mix and match” scenarios that have been impossible until now.

Building on FlexConnect, you will lead the effort to expand Dolby's offerings with solutions that enable Dolby experiences to everyday listening and build a future where every wireless speaker is better because it contains Dolby technology. You will identify new business opportunities, iterate and develop potential solutions, and validate leading ideas, developing a product roadmap for wireless speakers.

 

This is a player/coach role and requires the ability to pivot between strategic discussions with senior leadership and being hands-on with the team.

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