Director, Product Compliance

The role

The Director, Product Compliance will build, lead, and scale the compliance department. You will own all compliance activity across solid-state transformer platforms, including electrical safety, functional safety, cybersecurity, and EMC/EMI.

What you will do

• Build, lead, and scale the compliance department
• Hiring, developing, and managing compliance engineers and managers
• Set department-wide priorities, resourcing, and compliance roadmaps
• Define and execute overall product compliance strategy using UL 2877 and UL 1741
• Serve as internal technical authority on compliance interpretation and risk trade-offs
• Partner with Engineering, Firmware, Controls, Systems Engineering, and Product Management
• Serve as executive-level point of contact for NRTLs and test laboratories
• Ensure functional safety and cybersecurity compliance are executed and documented
• Build out internal test lab capabilities
• Report compliance program status, risk, and roadmap to executive leadership

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product compliance, regulatory affairs, or certification leadership for electrical, power electronics, or safety-critical hardware products
• 5+ years of people leadership experience, including direct management of compliance or engineering managers
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a hands-on technical leader
• Demonstrated ownership of UL 2877 and UL 1741 as the governing framework for a certified product line
• Working fluency across supporting standards such as IEC/UL 60730-1, IEC 62443, UL 1998, UL 991, and IEEE 1547.1
• Track record of building compliance functions or programs from an early stage
• Experience directing engagement with NRTLs and external certification agencies

Nice to have

• Experience with medium-voltage power conversion, solid-state transformers, or grid-interactive inverter platforms
• Experience with hyperscale data center, EV charging, or energy storage customers and their compliance expectations
• Prior experience as a Director, Head of Compliance, or equivalent functional leader in a scaling hardware startup

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Incentive Stock Options
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits
• 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
• Paid company holidays
• Commuter Benefits
• 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks)
• Paternal leave (6 weeks)

About the company

Amperesand is building next-generation power infrastructure systems for data centers, EV charging platforms, and future energy applications. The company is building hardware and software to support a new era of energy abundance.