Senior Technical Program Manager, Compliance

The role

The Senior Technical Program Manager, Compliance will own and drive all compliance program activities across the solid-state transformer product portfolio. This role coordinates engineering, regulatory requirements, quality, and operations to ensure products meet safety and certification requirements.

What you will do

• Lead the compliance program end-to-end with planning and coordination
• Own and drive the compliance roadmap and milestone-driven schedules
• Lead relationships with external test labs, certification bodies, and regulatory agencies
• Drive sample submissions and track open findings
• Identify and mitigate compliance risks through structured trade-off analysis
• Provide executive and cross functional compliance communications
• Drive integration of compliance requirements into product design
• Partner with supply chain and quality teams on component-level compliance
• Support DFM and design review processes
• Develop and improve compliance program management infrastructure

Required qualifications

• Technical degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline; or equivalent hands-on industry experience
• 6+ years of experience in technical program management, compliance engineering, or regulatory affairs roles involving power electronics, electrical hardware, or energy systems in a production environm
• Demonstrated experience managing product certifications to relevant safety and EMC standards (e.g., UL 1741, IEC 62109, IEC 61000 series, FCC Part 15, CE/UKCA marking, grid interconnection requirement
• Familiarity with product development lifecycle stages (EVT, DVT, PVT)
• Working knowledge of power electronics principles
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills
• Experience managing external relationships with accredited test labs and regulatory bodies
• Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills
• Experience with material compliance programs (RoHS, REACH, conflict minerals) and component-level qualification processes
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 30%, including international locations

Benefits

• Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and dependents
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k retirement savings plan through Empower
• Paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays
• Commuter Benefits
• 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks) and paternal leave (6 weeks)

About the company

Amperesand is building hardware and software to rewrite the power infrastructure playbook. The company builds intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products using advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research.