Senior Manager of Product Compliance Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a product lifecycle compliance roadmap to ensure that products comply with EMC (FCC/CE), Safety (IEC 62368-1), Telecom (RF/5G), energy efficiency standards, and Cybersecurity from the development stage.
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of multi-national compliance engineers to ensure projects achieve organizational goals and motivate the team to pursue excellence in a fast-paced environment.
• Strategically develop to establish a compliance system and process: Develop, implement, and oversee company-wide computer product compliance plans, and translate regulatory requirements into specific technical requirements in product development and sustaining stages.
• Cross-departmental collaboration and communication: Act as a bridge between the technical team (engineering, architects) and non-technical stakeholders (legal, senior management, auditors), interpreting complex technical risks into easily understandable business insights.
• Risk assessment and audit management: Lead the team with product risk assessment, implement changes in global regulatory requirements (such as NRTL, CE, CCC, BIS and other international product regulations), and serve as the main communication channel with business stakeholders.
• Hardware lifecycle compliance: Ensure that products comply with international standards from R&D to mass production (NPI process), and comply with worldwide regulations during product lifecycle.
• Supply chain risk management: Oversee the compliance evaluation and testing capabilities of third-party manufacturers (ODMs) and parts suppliers to complete the certificate approvals and to reduce technical compliance risks in the supply chain.

Qualifications And Skills

• Professional background: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, computer science, or a related field.
• Relevant experience: Typically requires 10+ years of product compliance or product management experience, and at least 8-10 years of experience in people management or leading large-scale technical projects.
• Multinational Remote Team Leader: Manage compliance engineers located across the world. Develop and utilize tools in process automation and data management to foster asynchronous collaboration and establish a results-oriented remote work culture.
• Extreme transparency: Maintaining a high degree of transparency of information in remote environments, ensuring that all decision-making processes are digitally traceable.
• Crisis Communication: In the face of emergencies such as obstruction of product import customs clearance or failure to pass testing, the system can quickly organize a cross-border online war room and make decisions.