VP of Global Product & Quality Excellence

Power Integrations•San Jose, CA

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.
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

Responsibilities

Build a world-class Product & Quality Excellence organization that embeds quality into every engineering decision, every supplier relationship and every customer experience.
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.
Assess product quality, reliability, supplier performance, customer escalations, organizational capability and quality systems.
Build executive alignment and establish the transformation roadmap.
Launch Design for Quality, supplier excellence and customer quality initiatives.
Implement enterprise dashboards, governance and standardized quality reviews.
Deliver measurable improvements in field reliability, manufacturing quality, supplier performance, customer satisfaction and organizational quality maturity while building a sustainable culture of continuous improvement.
Drive excellence across external wafer fabrication, assembly and test partners.