Director of Hardware Product Compliance

The role

The Director of Hardware Product Compliance will lead global compliance and certification efforts to ensure products meet regulatory, safety, and quality standards. This role involves designing and scaling compliance systems and leading a team to support product launches across international markets.

What you will do

• Define and evolve global product compliance and safety strategy.
• Establish governance models, standards, and best practices.
• Lead certification and regulatory programs from development to mass production.
• Integrate compliance milestones into product roadmaps.
• Serve as primary contact with international regulatory authorities and certification partners.
• Maintain expertise on global regulations and emerging compliance trends.
• Oversee structured risk assessment and mitigation practices like DFMEA.
• Embed product safety and compliance throughout the product lifecycle.
• Partner with engineering, product, manufacturing, quality, legal, and go-to-market teams.
• Provide guidance on regulatory tradeoffs regarding innovation, cost, and schedule.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in product compliance, safety engineering, or regulatory affairs.
• Leadership experience in a growing or global product organization.
• Strong working knowledge of international compliance standards and regulatory frameworks (e.g., UL, CE, FCC, IEC).
• Proven success managing certification programs across multiple products and geographies.
• Experience operating in environments with evolving processes and increasing scale.
• Familiarity with structured risk assessment and product safety methodologies.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Strategic, pragmatic mindset with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrated passion for developing people and building durable organizational capabilities.

Benefits

• Base salary
• Generous equity package

Before you apply

• Must be prepared to relocate to the Boston, MA office if necessary.
• Participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility.

About the company

WHOOP is on a mission to unlock and inspire performance for life by empowering members to understand their bodies and daily lives.