VP of Global Product & Quality Excellence

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.