Product Demo Manager

Overview

In this role you lead Dyson’s Product Demonstration team to bring technology to life across retail, events, and experiential spaces. You own the demonstration portfolio, shape strategies and roadmaps, and ensure delivery aligns with business priorities. You collaborate across retail, brand, creative, and commercial teams to deliver engaging customer experiences and scale innovative demonstrations. This is a leadership role focused on governance, capability building, and leveraging future technologies to boost customer understanding and engagement.

Pay / Benefits

• Financial, Lifestyle, and Health Benefits
• comprehensive package of benefits
• support tailored to life stages

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of engineers and students
• Create a high-performing culture focused on innovation and continuous improvement
• Develop and maintain Product Demonstration strategies and roadmaps
• Own and prioritise the demonstration portfolio with resource and timeline balance
• Oversee concept-to-implementation of demonstration solutions, ensuring robustness and commercial viability
• Coordinate with Retail, Brand Experience, Creative, RDD, Commercial, and Programme Management teams
• Establish project governance, planning, resource allocation, and risk management
• Ensure demonstrations effectively communicate Dyson technology and engage customers
• Build relationships to identify future technologies and opportunities
• Provide reporting on status, portfolio health, capacity, risks, and milestones
• Drive best practices, processes, and standards for demonstrations
• Contribute to growing a global Product Demonstration capability for retail and events

Key requirements

• Degree in Product Design, Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline
• Experience leading and developing technical, engineering, design, or innovation teams
• Experience delivering physical products, demonstrations, installations, or interactive experiences from concept to implementation
• Strong project and portfolio management skills with multiple concurrent projects
• Strong technical and creative problem-solving abilities balancing innovation with delivery
• Understanding of mechanical, electronic, and electromechanical systems
• Experience translating concepts into robust, scalable, commercially viable solutions
• Proficiency in prototyping, design validation, testing methodologies, and iterative development
• Ability to balance customer experience, feasibility, operational, and commercial considerations
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional communication skills
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and facilitating cross-functional decisions
• Strong leadership and coaching skills for high-performing teams
• Comfort with ambiguity, experimentation, and learning through iteration
• Strong written and visual communication skills
• Ability to travel when required

• leadership
• collaboration
• stakeholder management
• mechanical systems understanding
• electronic and electromechanical systems
• prototyping and design validation

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