Dir, Quality Assurance

Job Description

Renesas is hiring a Director of Product Assurance to lead quality for its rapidly growing Module business within the Performance Core Power group. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for embedding a quality-first mindset across the entire product lifecycle and ensuring delivery of products that meet and exceed customer expectations.

You will define and drive quality standards, processes, and metrics across internal teams and key external partners, including module manufacturers and critical suppliers. This role owns end-to-end quality—leading root-cause analysis, driving swift resolution of issues, and ensuring robust corrective and preventive actions from development through post-launch.

A core priority is advancing a “shift-left” quality approach, embedding rigor early in design and development to prevent issues before they occur. You will also champion structured problem-solving methodologies to enable rapid containment, protect customers, and minimize business impact.

Success in this role will be measured by reduced quality incidents, speed and effectiveness of issue resolution, and your ability to influence and elevate quality across a global organization.

This is a highly visible opportunity to work cross-functionally with global teams and shape quality strategy for cutting-edge products serving data center, AI, and computing power markets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Champion and enforce quality standards across all phases of execution.
• Align customer, vendor, and internal requirements to ensure seamless delivery.
• Own and resolve quality issues end-to-end, driving corrective and preventive actions.
• Lead continuous quality improvement initiatives using data-driven insights.
• Serve as primary liaison to customer QA teams, ensuring alignment and responsiveness.
• Embed customer-specific quality requirements into design, development, and production.
• Lead cross-functional teams to rapidly resolve critical quality issues.
• Drive adoption of structured problem-solving methodologies across the organization.
• Manage external ISO/IATF audits, ensuring compliance and closure of non-conformances.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product or quality engineering teams
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or a related field. Masters preferred.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and people skills, with a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams
• Solid understanding of new product development procedures, semiconductor supply chain and production environments
• Expertise with statistical analysis, structured problem solving methodologies, and making data-driven decisions
• Ability to manage supplier excursions and customer escalations
• Knowledge of commercial and automotive quality standards

Additional Information

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
 
With a diverse team of over 22,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     
 
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Shape Your Future with Us.  

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