About the role
The Opportunity
Power Integrations is seeking an exceptional executive to redefine quality as a strategic competitive advantage. This leader will transform quality from a functional discipline into an enterprise capability that accelerates innovation, strengthens customer confidence, improves product reliability and enables profitable growth. As a fabless semiconductor company, the role spans the entire product lifecycle—from architecture through field performance—while driving excellence across external wafer fabrication, assembly and test partners.
Mission
Build a world-class Product & Quality Excellence organization that embeds quality into every engineering decision, every supplier relationship and every customer experience.
Executive Mandate
- Create an enterprise-wide Quality First culture where quality is designed into products rather than inspected into them. - Own end-to-end product quality, reliability engineering, supplier quality, customer quality and quality systems. - Partner with Engineering to strengthen Design for Quality, verification, failure analysis and reliability methodologies. - Lead quality across outsourced manufacturing partners, ensuring robust process controls, change management and continuous improvement. - Establish executive quality governance, enterprise KPIs and Board-level reporting.
First-Year Transformation Priorities
First 90 Days: Assess product quality, reliability, supplier performance, customer escalations, organizational capability and quality systems. Build executive alignment and establish the transformation roadmap.
90–180 Days: Launch Design for Quality, supplier excellence and customer quality initiatives. Implement enterprise dashboards, governance and standardized quality reviews.
180–365 Days: Deliver measurable improvements in field reliability, manufacturing quality, supplier performance, customer satisfaction and organizational quality maturity while building a sustainable culture of continuous improvement.
Measures of Success
- Reduced field failures and customer returns - Improved product reliability and qualification effectiveness - Higher supplier quality and manufacturing yields - Reduced Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) - Faster root cause analysis and corrective actions - Improved customer satisfaction and strategic account confidence - Enterprise adoption of a Quality First mindset
Ideal Executive Profile
- 20+ years of semiconductor industry leadership with significant experience in analog, mixed-signal or power semiconductors. - Executive leadership in product quality, reliability engineering, supplier quality and customer quality. - Experience operating within a fabless semiconductor model using external manufacturing partners. - Demonstrated success leading enterprise transformation and influencing executive leadership and Boards. - Technical depth combined with strategic business acumen and exceptional leadership.
Leadership Competencies
- Enterprise leadership and systems thinking - Strategic quality transformation - Engineering partnership and technical credibility - Customer obsession - Data-driven decision making - Global influence without authority - Talent development and succession planning - Executive communication and Board presence
Power Integrations is committed to building teams that drive innovation and therefore review a range of factors when determining compensation.
Power Integrations also offers to our eligible employees a comprehensive total rewards package that includes equity, medical benefits, ESPP, 401K, tuition reimbursement and time off programs. For additional benefits, please visit https://www.power.com/company/our-sustainability-priorities/people-our-engine-innovation.
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