# Director of Product Compliance

**Company:** [Skydio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/skydio)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $230k – $348k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**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
**Posted:** 2026-08-25

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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