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WhoopPosted Aug 28, 2026
Vice President, Hardware Quality
Boston, MAfull timeOn Sitesenior$200k–$300kH1B: yes
Whoop Vice President, Hardware Quality at WHOOP leads quality strategy and execution across the global hardware lifecycle. This role builds and scales a global quality organization and partners with cross-functional teams to ensure product and manufacturing excellence.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute a comprehensive quality strategy spanning product quality, manufacturing quality, supplier quality, field quality, and containment across the hardware lifecycle.
- Build, lead, and develop a world-class global quality organization that enables operational excellence and unlocks growth and scale.
- Partner closely with Hardware Engineering and Product Development teams to ensure robust quality planning, validation, and risk mitigation throughout new product introduction and sustaining engineering activities.
- Establish quality metrics, operating mechanisms, and executive reporting frameworks that provide visibility into quality performance, risks, and opportunities across the supply chain.
- Drive closed-loop quality improvement initiatives by connecting field performance, reliability testing, manufacturing data, supplier performance, and product design insights.
- Lead supplier quality programs, including qualification processes, factory audits, corrective and preventive actions, and strategic supplier development efforts across a global manufacturing network.
Qualification
Interested in the role
Required
- 10+ years of leadership experience in hardware quality, manufacturing quality, supplier quality, or related functions supporting consumer electronics, wearable technology, or other complex hardware products.
- Demonstrated success building and scaling high-performing quality organizations in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- Deep understanding of consumer electronics manufacturing processes, including electro-mechanical assemblies, PCB/SMT manufacturing, batteries, plastics, and critical component qualification.
- Experience working with global manufacturing and supplier partners and managing quality across geographically distributed operations.
- Expertise in quality systems and methodologies, including statistical process control, auditing, corrective and preventive action programs, root cause analysis, FMEA, Design for Manufacturing, Lean manufacturing, and Six Sigma principles.
Benefits
- Vision
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Company
Whoop
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