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VP of Global Product & Quality Excellence

Power · power.com
San JoseExecutive20+ yrs
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Global product and quality excellence leadership.

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Found
21 d ago · posted 2026-10-06
Location
San Jose, California

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The Opportunity Power Integrations is seeking an exceptional executive to redefine quality as a strategic competitive advantage. This leader will transform quality from a functional discipline into an enterprise capability that accelerates innovation, strengthens customer confidence, improves product reliability and enables profitable growth. As a fabless semiconductor company, the role spans the entire product lifecycle—from architecture through field performance—while driving excellence across external wafer fabrication, assembly and test partners. Mission Build a world-class Product & Quality Excellence organization that embeds quality into every engineering decision, every supplier relationship and every customer experience. Executive Mandate • Create an enterprise-wide Quality First culture where quality is designed into products rather than inspected into them. • Own end-to-end product quality, reliability engineering, supplier quality, customer quality and quality systems. • Partner with Engineering to strengthen Design for Quality, verification, failure analysis and reliability methodologies. • Lead quality across outsourced manufacturing partners, ensuring robust process controls, change management and continuous improvement. • Establish executive quality governance, enterprise KPIs and Board-level reporting. First-Year Transformation Priorities First 90 Days: Assess product quality, reliability, supplier performance, customer escalations, organizational capability and quality systems. Build executive alignment and establish the transformation roadmap. 90–180 Days: Launch Design for Quality, supplier excellence and customer quality initiatives. Implement enterprise dashboards, governance and standardized quality reviews. 180–365 Days: Deliver measurable improvements in field reliability, manufacturing quality, supplier performance, customer satisfaction and organizational quality maturity while building a sustainable culture of continuous improvement. Measures of Success • Reduced field failures and customer returns • Improved product reliability and qualification effectiveness • Higher supplier quality and manufacturing yields • Reduced Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) • Faster root cause analysis and corrective actions • Improved customer satisfaction and strategic account confidence • Enterprise adoption of a Quality First mindset Ideal Executive Profile • 20+ years of semiconductor industry leadership with significant experience in analog, mixed-signal or power semiconductors. • Executive leadership in product quality, reliability engineering, supplier quality and customer quality. • Experience operating within a fabless semiconductor model using external manufacturing partners. • Demonstrated success leading enterprise transformation and influencing executive leadership and Boards. • Technical depth combined with strategic business acumen and exceptional leadership. Leadership Competencies • Enterprise leadership and systems thinking • Strategic quality transformation • Engineering partnership and technical credibility • Customer obsession • Data-driven decision making • Global influence without authority • Talent development and succession planning • Executive communication and Board presence Power Integrations is committed to building teams that drive innovation and therefore review a range of factors when determining compensation. Power Integrations also offers to our eligible employees a comprehensive total rewards package that includes equity, medical benefits, ESPP, 401K, tuition reimbursement and time off programs. For additional benefits, please visit https://www.power.com/company/our-sustainability-priorities/people-our-engine-innovation.

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