Quality Product Director
Job Description
Product Quality Director
Job Summary
The Director of Product Quality is accountable for ensuring exceptional product quality from concept through end of life. This role leads disciplined design and quality processes, ensures robust execution of DFX during NPI, drives lifecycle reliability improvements, and partners closely with engineering, operations, and global manufacturing partners to deliver highyield, compliant, and reliable products.
Key Responsibilities
Design Quality & New Product Introduction (NPI)
- Lead and enforce disciplined product quality and engineering processes across all development phases.
- Ensure rigorous application of DFX principles, including DFMEA, manufacturability, testability, reliability, and cost during NPI.
- Partner with engineering to drive design robustness, yield readiness, and scalability to production.
Product Lifecycle Quality
- Own closedloop quality systems leveraging field failure, warranty, and repair data.
- Drive root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions across design, manufacturing, and service.
- Improve product reliability, customer experience, and total cost of ownership.
Manufacturing & Partner Quality
- Provide product quality leadership across internal and external manufacturing partners.
- Define and manage qualification, certification, audit, and performance expectations for suppliers and contract manufacturers.
- Establish quality metrics, scorecards, and continuous improvement plans to reduce risk and improve performance.
Quality Systems, Compliance & Continuous Improvement
- Ensure adherence to QMS, regulatory, and industry standards.
- Maintain audit readiness and compliance governance.
- Champion Lean, Six Sigma, and datadriven continuous improvement across product quality and operations teams.
Qualifications
Experience
- Proven leadership experience in Product Quality, Design Quality, or Operations Quality within a manufacturing or technology environment.
- Experience operating as a P&L owner, General Manager, or senior operational leader a strong plus.
Technical Expertise
- Strong handson knowledge of DFMEA, DOE, quality tools, and DFX methodologies.
- Deep understanding of manufacturing processes, supplier quality, and reliability engineering.
- Six Sigma Black Belt and/or ASQ Certified Manager of Quality (CMQ) preferred.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering or related discipline.
Leadership & Communication
- Demonstrated ability to define quality strategy and influence crossfunctional organizations.
- Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical issues into business impact for senior leadership.
DSJ Global is a revolutionary search firm, specializing in the bespoke delivery of executive search solutions to clients.
Working across a number of niche industries and sectors across the US, UK, and Europe.
With offices in New York, Charlotte, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, London, Zurich, Berlin, Hong Kong and Singapore, DSJ Global operates on an international scale providing bespoke search packages which are unrivaled in the widespread recruitment market. Our aim is simple, to provide executive search level services which are flexible and tailored to the individual requirement of each client, on an unrivaled cost structure. We currently specialize in the areas of Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, OPEX, Finance and Human Resources.
We believe that every client should receive the benefit and accuracy of a search approach, whilst being able to dictate how, when and where it occurs, all on a fee structure to suit. Our revolutionary approach allows us to structure each assignment according to the requirements, time scales and budget available. We believe that for too long executive search firms have been too rigid in their approach and have been able to dictate how the search is conducted, leaving the client relatively powerless on the outcome.
Our service allows our clients to have increased control, direction and interaction in the search conducted on their behalf and has resulted in successful, on going relationships as search firm of choice with an ever expanding client group.
