Hiring: Director-Product Compliance Company: Amperesand Location: San Francisco Bay Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:19:17 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Embedded Systems, Firmware, Product Management, Product Strategy, Systems Engineering, Transformers About the job Experience: •100 years. Supply chains for today’s infrastructure equipment can’t match the pace and sophistication of critical energy projects. Amperesand is building hardware and software that rewrites this broken power infrastructure playbook to support a new era of energy abundance. •5+ years of people leadership experience, including direct management of compliance or engineering managers, team building, mentoring, and performance management. Required Skills: •. In this role, you are accountable for the full compliance program, including electrical safety, functional safety, cybersecurity, EMC/EMI, and certification execution, as well as for the people who deliver it. •This role combines strong people leadership with the technical depth and hands-on credibility to be Amperesand's internal and external authority on compliance, and the communication skill to align engineering, product, and executive stakeholders as well as customers and certification bodies around a single compliance strategy. •Build, lead, and scale Amperesand's compliance department as its functional leader — hiring, developing, and managing compliance engineers and managers across all compliance disciplines while remaining hands-on in critical compliance, certification, and technical activities. •Set department-wide priorities, resourcing, and compliance roadmaps, and be personally accountable for the certification readiness of every Amperesand product line. •Establish performance management, mentoring, and career development practices that build a durable, senior compliance organization. •Lead Compliance Strategy — UL 2877 and UL 1741 as the Primary Framework •Define and execute Amperesand's overall product compliance strategy using UL 2877 and UL 1741 as the primary governing standards. •Own the mapping of every supporting standard, functional safety (IEC/UL 60730-1), cybersecurity (IEC 62443), and related frameworks (UL 1998, UL 991, IEEE 1547.1) into compliance-driven product requirements. Qualifications: •10+ years of experience in product compliance, regulatory affairs, or certification leadership for electrical, power electronics, or safety-critical hardware products. •Demonstrated ability to operate as a hands-on technical leader while building and leading a compliance organization, with the ability to move between department-level strategy and detailed technical, certification, testing, and issue-resolution work as needed. •Demonstrated ownership of UL 2877 and UL 1741 (or directly comparable primary product-safety / grid-interconnection standards) 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, with the judgment to know when a supporting standard changes the primary compliance strategy and when it does not. •Exceptional leadership and communication skills: proven ability to set direction for a department, align executives and engineering leaders who don't report to you, and represent compliance credibly to customers and certification bodies. •Track record of building compliance functions or programs from an early stage. •Strong technical judgment and willingness to personally engage in complex compliance problems when needed. •Prior experience as a Director, Head of Compliance, or equivalent functional leader in a scaling hardware startup •This is a full-time onsite role based in the South Bay Area or Reno, NV, with in-person collaboration expected five days a week. Given the highly cross-functional nature of compliance leadership across hardware, embedded systems, and product organizations, onsite partnership is critical to enabling rapid alignment and certification execution. •Travel will be required to interface with team members in other office locations. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!