Director, Audiological Solutions, R&D

Denmark

Smørum

Would you like to lead the development of cutting-edge audiology that improves life for millions of people with hearing loss worldwide?

In this role, you will work at the heart of Demant’s innovation, leading the group that creates the world-leading audiological technology used across Demant hearing aids.

The Role

As Director, you will lead the leaders and teams that make up the Audio group—an organization of 75 highly skilled experts. Through your leadership team, you will be accountable for strengthening R&D delivery and ensuring that the organization has the skills, culture, capacity, structure, and ways of working required to succeed.

You will set direction, develop leaders, and enable teams to perform at their best. Building on a strong existing organization and guided by the company strategy, you will prepare the organization for the future.

Welcome to Audiological Solutions

You will join a global R&D organization of more than 1,000 engineers and specialists across electronics, mechanics, software, acoustics, AI, and audiology—all working to improve hearing healthcare.

The Audio group is part of the Audiological Solutions department, one of the cornerstones of the Device Software area. We believe in collaboration, curiosity, openness, and diverse thinking. Your leadership will shape how we deliver, learn, and grow.

Your Responsibilities

Reporting to the Senior Director of Audiological Solutions, you will

• Lead and develop an organization of 75 developers and leaders responsible for one of Demant’s core deliveries: world-leading audiology for Demant hearing solutions.
• Lead and develop leaders, providing clear direction and an inclusive environment where people can contribute and grow.
• Be accountable for R&D delivery through your leadership team and organization.
• Partner with SAFe ART leadership to create transparency, remove systemic barriers, and deliver value.
• Translate company strategy into clear priorities and action.
• Build the skills and competencies, and allocate the capacity, needed to deliver the roadmap and secure long-term success—with innovation as a key priority.
• Build a culture rooted in innovation, trust, collaboration, and the ambition to lead audiology.
• Lead organizational design, including recruitment, performance, development, engagement, and wellbeing.
• Improve workflows and strengthen learning and collaboration across organizational boundaries.

About You

You are an experienced people leader with a strong record of helping teams perform and grow. You have likely led leaders, either directly or indirectly. You create clarity, share accountability, and empower others to make decisions.

You communicate clearly, listen well, and build alignment across functions and organizational levels. You approach complex problems with curiosity and sound judgment, and you work effectively in a matrix organization.

You understand R&D delivery and can connect people, skills, capacity, quality, and ways of working with product and technology roadmaps. Familiarity with Lean-Agile leadership and SAFe is valuable, as is the ability to combine a strategic perspective with practical delivery insight.

You bring considerable leadership experience, hold a higher technical education, and have preferably experience within audiology or related areas. Fluency in English is required.

Interested?

To learn more about the role, contact Ole Fogh Olsen, Senior Director of Audiological Solutions, at [email protected] .

Apply by November 1st 2026 through our online recruitment system.

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At Demant, we value diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I), and we are committed to creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of ethnic background, personality, age, gender, and education. Diversity is part of our cultural DNA. Women in STEM areas are particularly encouraged to apply, as Demant supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality.

Demant is a world leading hearing healthcare and technology group built on a heritage of care, health, and innovation since 1904. The Group offers innovative technologies, solutions, and expertise to enable people hear better. In every aspect, from hearing care, hearing aids and hearing implants to diagnostic equipment and services and audio solutions, Demant is active and engaged.

Headquartered in Denmark, the Group employs more than 21,000 people globally and is present with solutions in 130 countries where we create life-changing hearing health and high-end audio and video solutions. William Demant Foundation holds the majority of shares in Demant A/S, which is listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen and among the 25 most traded stocks.