Our mission to positively impact people's lives every day in every home around the world allows our employees to be thinkers and tinkerers, designers and doers, creators and number crunchers, makers of things they love.  As we continue to grow, we are excited to add a Product Safety & Compliance Manager to our global team.
 
OVERVIEW:
 
A detailed-oriented, passionate, and dynamic leader is needed to be an integral part of our product development teams, ensuring that all of our new designs are safe, meet retailer requirements, and comply with all laws and regulations for the countries where sold.  In this position, you will experience unparalleled collaboration with many functions of the organization – Design Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Marketing, Supply Chain, Creative, ID, Quality, Manufacturing, Legal, International, and Senior Executives. You will be interacting with external business partners – certification and test agencies, suppliers, factories, and international distributors, offering you exposure and interaction unlike any other role in the organization. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring delivery of products to market that are free of unnecessary risk and deliver delightful experiences for consumers.

• Lead development of certification plans for new product designs
• Design initiatives related to team participation in market surveillance activities
• Evaluate marketplace and consumer events for safety risks
• Manage and conduct design and construction reviews for risk analysis and mitigation

• Participate in DFMEA activities to ensure successful execution
• Serve as the essential source of knowledge and expertise for all safety and compliance necessities
• Act as project manager for safety and compliance related activities
• Lead activities surrounding identification and communication of market access requirements
• Prepare and present executive review updates on team activities related to NPD projects
• Act as principal approver for all safety, compliance, and marketing collateral
• Serve as lead for international product extensions for EU, UK and/or rest or world programs
• Manage and coach direct reports to continuously drive high performance
• Participate in global talent development programs
• Participate as a corporate representative in standards development committees and trade associations
• HYBRID - This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week onsite at our headquarters in Needham, MA

ATTRIBUTES & SKILLS:

• Bachelor’s degree ideally in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
• 5 or more years of compliance or design related experience of consumer or commercial electromechanical products
• Experience supervising engineering or test personnel
• Knowledge of regulatory standard and/or governmental regulations
• Experience with facilitating or participating in DFMEA sessions
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
• Ability to multi-task, maintaining a continuous comprehensive understanding of project status
• Deliver creative and technically sound solutions to complex problems
• Analytical operations skills seeking to drive continuous improvement initiatives
• Comfortable pushing back on stakeholders in pursuit of product safety and compliance requirements - able to collaborate and compromise where appropriate
• Comfortable operating independently - developing project plans within area of expertise

• Bring skills in communicating complex technical information to audiences with varying technical understanding
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills, demonstrating comfort and confidence in presenting to and communicating with colleagues and superiors
• Knowledge and understanding of consumer product and electrical home appliance standards or transferable industry experience
• 10-15% travel