VP of Global Product & Quality Excellence
Power · power.com
San JoseExecutive20+ yrs
Straight from the company’s own careers site.
The job in short
Global product and quality excellence leadership.
Details
- Found
- 21 d ago · posted 2026-10-06
- Location
- San Jose, California
Full description
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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