Director of Product Development
From concept
to market.
Engineering leadership across luxury, consumer technology, smart home, semiconductors, and precision manufacturing — turning complex ideas into products that ship.
Director of Product Development
Engineering leadership across luxury, consumer technology, smart home, semiconductors, and precision manufacturing — turning complex ideas into products that ship.
Industries
Luxury
Jewelry
Consumer
Goods
IoT & Smart Home
Products
Semiconductor
Industry
Powder Metallurgy
& Manufacturing
Approach
Start every product conversation with the business, technical, and customer context that keeps teams aligned and decisions grounded.
Prioritize speed and learning through rapid release rhythms, pragmatic tradeoffs, and early validation over perfect plans.
Build products from a deep understanding of customer needs, behaviors, and outcomes — not from internal assumptions alone.
Use measurable evidence, real metrics, and disciplined analysis to shape priorities and reduce opinion-based risk.
Featured Work
Luxury Jewelry
Led full product development lifecycle for a fine jewelry line, from initial concept and material selection through production qualification and retail launch.
Smart Home
Directed product development for an IoT consumer device from concept through mass market launch, coordinating hardware, firmware, and software teams.
Semiconductor Industry
Engineered and commercialized a high-tolerance PM component line for semiconductor tooling applications, establishing new process benchmarks.
About
I'm David Schecter, a mechanical engineer turned product leader with over 16 years of experience across luxury jewelry, IoT & smart home, consumer goods, semiconductor, and powder metallurgy industries. My career is built on the belief that great products are won or lost long before they reach the customer — getting the concept, the process, and the people right from day one is everything.
My path has taken me from precision metalwork in luxury jewelry to the clean rooms of semiconductor manufacturing — industries that demand both creative vision and uncompromising technical rigor. That range is my edge.
Today, as Director of Product Development, I operate at the intersection of strategy and execution — shaping what gets built, how it gets built, and whether it actually succeeds in the market.