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Director, Design Assurance

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Jul 2025

💰 $234,000/yr($218,000/yr – $234,000/yr)

About the role

Title: Director, Design Assurance
This position is based in our Campbell, California offices. This position is on-site, full-time.

Why Imperative Care?
Do you want to make a real impact on patients?
As part of our team at Imperative Care, you can help elevate care for patients suffering from stroke and other devastating vascular diseases. Every day, the technologies that we develop at Imperative Care directly impact people at the most vulnerable moments of their lives. Our focus is on the needs of the patient, and they come first in everything we do.

What You’ll Do
This role interprets functional strategy and set plans that meet quality engineering goals and objectives aligned to new product development and sustaining commercial products. This position will direct and oversee all activities of assigned staff who contribute to and support company priorities for new product development and sustaining of commercial products, delivering state of the art product quality and reliability. The role provides leadership in defining and implementing quality engineering principles and processes that facilitate the realization of Imperative Care’s business objectives.

Lead the design assurance team and ensure compliance with domestic and international regulatory standards (e.g., FDA, CE marking, etc.).
Build and sustain relationships with cross-functional peers in R&D, Clinical, Engineering, and Regulatory bodies.
Champion quality engineering principles and foster a company-wide continuous improvement mindset, promoting shared responsibility for quality.
Provide direction and mentoring to the team to ensure success and alignment with company goals.

Participate in audits by external bodies (Notified Body, FDA, etc.) and internal audits to maintain regulatory compliance.
Oversee quality and compliance issues, actively resolving them and providing guidance across functions.
Recommend solutions for quality improvement and resolve any compliance issues identified.

Promote a patient-centric, continuous improvement approach in the design assurance organization.
Contribute to new product development and sustaining efforts, ensuring compliance with design control, risk management, standards, and change management.
Use performance metrics to identify quality issues early and implement corrective actions.
Identify and implement new technologies, methods, and systems to enhance quality and efficiency.

Utilize statistical analysis techniques, including SPC (Statistical Process Control), Design of Experiments, and reliability testing to improve processes.
Recommend quality assurance sampling plans based on process capabilities and equipment.
Provide technical guidance and training to the QA department on statistical analysis, experimental design, and other quality assurance topics.

Represent QA engineering during New Product Development (NPD) and Design Reviews.
Ensure robust design control and risk management practices are followed, driving improvements in test methods, validation, and verification processes.
Provide expertise in risk management, test method validation, verification, and reliability testing for new and existing products.

Hire, coach, and develop staff to ensure the success of the design assurance team.

What You’ll Bring:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field, and a minimum of 10 years of experience, including 3+ years of managerial experience; or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
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