Manager, Product Integrity — Connected Products
About The Position
Fortune Brands Innovations is hiring a Manager, Product Integrity for its Connected Products team. The team verifies that connected products—including Flo by Moen water devices, Yale and August smart locks, and Master Lock connected padlocks—meet their requirements before reaching customers. This role leads the Product Integrity team and translates requirements from Product, Systems Architecture, and Compliance into tests with defined methods, sample sizes, and pass/fail criteria. It also owns 100% end-of-line factory testing, including test fixture design and test software, developed in-house or with suppliers depending on complexity. The manager leads product quality and integrity across test definition, systems integration, test execution, and confirmation that products meet requirements. The role requires an understanding of how electrical, mechanical, and firmware elements interact, along with the ability to work with Product, Architecture, and Reliability and lead the lab that validates products. The position is eligible for a hybrid work environment based in North Olmsted, Ohio, or San Francisco, California. Remote days are Monday and Friday. The lab is in North Olmsted. Employees based in San Francisco should expect occasional travel to North Olmsted. Travel is approximately 15%, including visits to factories in Nogales and Tecate, Mexico, and Hanoi, Vietnam, as well as travel between North Olmsted and San Francisco.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience with connected consumer hardware spanning electrical, mechanical, and firmware.
- Experience developing factory test fixtures at both board level and end of line.
- Experience writing requirements and verification and validation (V&V) plans.
- Reliability engineering fluency, including accelerated life testing, Weibull and AFR calculations, sample sizing at a stated confidence level, HALT/HASS, thermal, drop, and cycle-life testing.
- Ability to design a reliability test plan and interpret failures.
- Production test experience with fixtures, test software, design for test (DFT), cycle time, and yield at a contract manufacturer.
- Experience leading a small technical team.
- Comfort setting direction for hands-on test engineers.
- Ability to understand how electrical, mechanical, and firmware components interact.
Nice To Haves
- Battery power model development.
- Experience with sensor products involving calibration and drift requirements.
- Experience with sealed or outdoor enclosures.
- RF performance characterization.
- Certification knowledge covering safety (UL), RF (FCC), and interoperability (Matter/CSA); NSF/IAPMO for water products or BHMA for locks.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of test engineers responsible for production and 100% testing, hardware testing, reliability testing, quality inspection, and confirmation of product requirements.
- Set direction and standards for the Product Integrity team.
- Translate hardware requirements in product requirement documents from Product, Systems Architecture, and Compliance into testable requirements with defined methods, sample sizes, acceptance criteria, and gates.
- Provide evidence packages for each EVT, DVT, and PVT stage gate, documenting what was tested, against which requirements, and with what results.
- Define reliability test plans for each program and determine sample sizes, confidence levels, and acceleration factors for environmental testing.
- Develop production test fixtures and test software that meet approved cycle times, with test limits tied to expected field performance.
- Review returns and field data and feed findings back into product requirements and test plans.
- Own end-of-line factory testing, including fixture design and test software, built in-house or developed with suppliers as appropriate.
- Lead and operate the lab that validates products.
Benefits
- Annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.
- Comprehensive health plans.
- 401(k) program with a company contribution.
- Product discounts.
- Flexible time off benefits.
- Adoption benefits.
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
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