Senior Product Validation Manager
Austin, TX - USA
Job Summary
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
- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
- 10 years of experience in product development or validation engineering
- 35 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
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