QA Lead

In short We're looking for an experienced QA Lead to take ownership of quality assurance across our mobile and IoT projects. You'll design test strategies, raise the bar on QA practices, build up the chapter, and mentor a team of testers who already know what they're doing. This is a permanent role: B2B contract, monthly salary, full benefits, and you'd be reporting to the CTO on QA direction across the company. Why intent? We've been designing and co-creating connected devices since 2008. Wearables, smart audio, health-tech hardware for clients like Oura and BOSE, backed by investors like a16z and Founders Fund. We're 60+ people, fully remote, and AI-native since before LinkedIn influencers discovered the term. QA here isn't "click through the screens": it's mobile apps talking to firmware over BLE, sensor pipelines, edge cases that only appear at -10°C with a flat battery. The bugs are real, the stakes are real, and good QA leadership changes whether a product ships well or limps out the door. Who this role is NOT for If your version of QA leadership is reviewing test cases and writing weekly reports, this isn't going to work. We're not hiring someone to manage a team that already runs itself. We're hiring someone who shapes how testing is done across mobile and IoT projects, decides what tooling we invest in, and pushes the whole chapter forward. If you need full specs to make a call, if "that's not in scope" is a sentence you use often, or if you'd rather not be the one explaining quality trade-offs to a US client at 18:30, we're probably not your people. We're AI-native and we expect you to treat AI as a daily multiplier, not a gimmick. What you'll do Plan, design, and execute comprehensive testing strategies for IoT and mobile products Lead and mentor the QA team: guide test design, review approaches, run knowledge-sharing Introduce modern QA tools and practices, including test automation and CI/CD integration Define and track quality metrics, and continuously