Lead and manage a Product Validation team responsible for executing end-to-end validation for assigned programs. Ensure validation scope, coverage, execution quality, and release readiness are achieved while driving strong cross-functional alignment with engineering, product, and manufacturing teams.
- Establish clear goals and performance expectations aligned to program delivery and quality metrics
- Manage team workload, resource allocation, and prioritization across multiple programs
- Provide leadership, coaching, and development for engineers and test leads
- Recruit, interview, and hire Product Validation engineering team members
- Identify skill gaps and drive team capability development
- Own end-to-end validation execution, including planning, scheduling, execution oversight, and reporting
- Define validation scope, coverage strategy, and detailed test plans aligned to requirements
- Ensure validation activities meet phase entry/exit criteria
- Ensure validation results provide clear and actionable engineering signal
- Guide validation methodology across functional, performance, reliability, compliance, and system-level testing
- Provide technical direction and oversight to engineers on coverage, prioritization, and defect quality
- Lead validation readiness reviews and support release gating decisions
- Ensure test configurations and execution align with product requirements and design intent
- Cross-Functional Responsibilities
- Act as the primary validation point of contact for program teams and stakeholders
- Communicate validation plans, status, risks, and issues clearly and effectively
- Partner with Electrical, Mechanical, Firmware, Systems, and Manufacturing teams to ensure design-for-validation
- Support customer interactions with validation data and technical insights
- Track and manage key validation metrics, including coverage, defect trends, and schedule adherence
- Ensure documentation of test plans, execution results, and lessons learned
- Drive continuous improvement in validation processes, tools, and reporting
- Support compliance to industry standards and customer requirements
- Roughly 10% travel
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of experience in product development or validation engineering
- 3–5 years of experience leading engineering teams or technical leads
- Strong understanding of product validation methodologies and test lifecycle execution
- Experience with hardware systems (servers, storage, networking) and firmware interaction
- Strong program execution, prioritization, and risk management skills
- Ability to translate technical data into clear business and customer messaging
- Effective cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder communication