Director of Product Compliance
Leads company-wide product compliance, certification governance, and launch-readiness decisions while managing a team of compliance engineers. Requires 10+ years in product compliance or regulatory engineering, team leadership, and technical depth across EMC, radio, and product safety.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own product compliance across the company’s product portfolio, including policy, risk frameworks, requirements inventories, certification gates, launch-readiness recommendations, and sign-off.
- Lead and grow a team of portfolio compliance engineers embedded in program teams.
- Balance compliance-team capacity against an 18-month roadmap and create tailored certification plans for each program.
- Translate unclear or evolving requirements into clear compliance strategies and defensible decisions.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to align launch timelines with certification lead times, dependencies, and external constraints.
- Escalate launch-critical compliance risks early enough to enable corrective action.
- Direct internal subject-matter experts and external specialists across cellular, radio, civil aviation, cybersecurity, supply chain, export controls, and related domains.
- Collaborate with Hardware Operations, Engineering, Product, Security, Supply Chain, Sales, Government, Aviation Regulatory, and Legal teams.
- Help shape policy and regulation through cross-functional engagement.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in product compliance, certification, or regulatory engineering.
- Experience leading a team.
- Deep technical knowledge of EMC, radio, and product safety.
- Working knowledge of cellular and carrier certification, battery compliance, aviation, cybersecurity, supply chain, and export controls.
- Experience building compliance processes and governance from the ground up and driving organizational adoption.
- Ability to exercise decision rights, including communicating when a program’s launch date is at risk.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with engineering, legal, supply chain, and executive stakeholders.
- Willingness to work beyond the formal scope of the role to address ownership gaps.
Nice-to-haves
- Battery, cellular—including PTCRB and MNO—or NRTL compliance experience.
- Familiarity with UAS regulatory frameworks, including FAA, Remote ID, and EASA.
- Experience with federal supply chain, export-control, or cybersecurity requirements.
- Regulatory advocacy or standards-body engagement experience.
- FAA Part 107 certification; obtaining it within the first 60 days is encouraged and may be required for certain positions.
Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary: $230,000–$347,500.
- Equity through stock options.
- Health insurance plans.
- Paid vacation, sick leave, holiday pay, and 401(k) savings plan.
- Relocation assistance may be available for eligible roles.
Skills
Emc, Radio Certification, Product Safety, Cellular Certification, Ptcrb, Nrtl, Battery Compliance, Uas Regulations, Faa Remote Id, Easa, Cybersecurity, Export Controls, Supply Chain Compliance, Regulatory Advocacy, Standards Bodies
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