Sr Director, Corporate Quality, Regulatory & Product Compliance

Role Description

The Senior Director Corporate Quality Regulatory & Product Compliance owns global Regulatory Safety Compliance and Product/Service Life Cycle Management (PLCM)including the Quality Management System and the product gating process across the enterprise.
This leader ensures the delivery of safe compliant reliable and highquality products while enabling scalable datadriven operations through modern digital and AIenabled quality systems.

This role leads enterprise frameworks for regulatory compliance product safety engineering ISO/QMS and PLCM governance and drives the adoption of advanced analytics automation and AI to proactively manage risk accelerate timetomarket and improve operational predictability.

What you will do:

Enterprise Regulatory & Compliance Governance

Own and evolve the global regulatory compliance strategy across all regions and product lines.

Leverage AIenabled regulatory intelligence tools to monitor regulatory changes and assess product impact.

Ensure compliance with UL FCC CE RoHS REACH Prop 65 and other applicable standards.

Lead regulatory audits certifications and technical submissions using digitized compliance evidence systems.

Embed compliance requirements early in product architecture through close partnership with Engineering and Product teams.

Product Safety & Risk Leadership

Lead the corporate product safety program including hazard analysis FMEA risk mitigation and field actions.

Deploy datadriven and AIassisted risk assessment methods to identify emerging safety issues.

Oversee investigations RCA and CAPA using advanced analytics across field manufacturing and reliability data.

Establish predictive safety metrics and dashboards for executive review.

ISO QMS & Digital Quality Systems

Own enterprise ISO frameworks (ISO 45001 etc.).

Lead the transformation toward a digital AIenabled QMS including:

o Intelligent document control

o Continuous audit readiness

o Process mining and compliance monitoring

Partner with global functions and manufacturing partners to ensure consistent QMS execution.

Product / Service Life Cycle Management (PLCM)

Own and govern the enterprise PLCM framework and stagegate process.

Implement AIdriven launch readiness and risk scoring across NPI programs.

Provide executive visibility through integrated dashboards predictive KPIs and automated gate reviews.

Act as Secretary of the PLCM Steering Committee.

CrossFunctional Leadership & Culture

Champion a qualityfirst datadriven and AIaugmented culture across Engineering Operations Supply Chain and Service.

Drive KPI governance using advanced analytics and trendbased insights.

Influence senior leaders through clear evidencebased recommendations.

What you should have:

10 years of experience in Quality Regulatory Product Safety PLCM or NPI in a hardware or regulated industry.

Proven experience scaling global quality and compliance programs.

Strong understanding of digital QMS analytics and AI applications in quality and operations.

Experience engaging engineeringled organizations and executive leadership.

Experience managing contract manufacturers globally.

Preferred

Advanced degree in Engineering Quality Operations or Regulatory Affairs.

Experience implementing AI automation or advanced analytics in quality compliance or operations.

Lean Six Sigma DFx or reliability engineering expertise.

Leadership Competencies

Crossfunctional influence and change leadership

Systems thinking with a digital and AI mindset

Datadriven and predictive decision making

Strong balance of technical depth and executive communication.

Travel

You are required to travel as necessary.

Pay & Benefits

For this role the estimated base salary range is between $180000 - $250000. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors including market location and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. This position may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus equity and benefits. Sales positions are generally offered acompetitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure.

Diversity Equality and Inclusion at Harmonic Inc

At Harmonic we believe that building and nurturing a global team with diverse backgrounds and voices is critical to our success. Together we achieve excellence through creativity and innovation build relationshipsbased on integrity and mutual respect and deliver the highest quality in every aspect of our business for the benefit of our employees business partners and shareholders.

Additional Equal Opportunity statement

Harmonic is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless ofgender race color national origin ancestry citizenship religion age physical or mental disability medical condition genetic information pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity or gender expression veteran status or marital status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition we will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Additionally we will make reasonable accommodation to assist a person with a disability in the application process. If you need an accommodation in order to apply for a position please contact

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