Senior Product Validation Manager

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

Job Summary

Lead and manage a Product Validation team responsible for executing end-to-end validation for assigned programs. Ensure validation scope, coverage, execution quality, and release readiness are achieved while driving strong cross-functional alignment with engineering, product, and manufacturing teams.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Leadership and Management Responsibilities

• Establish clear goals and performance expectations aligned to program delivery and quality metrics
• Manage team workload, resource allocation, and prioritization across multiple programs
• Provide leadership, coaching, and development for engineers and test leads
• Recruit, interview, and hire Product Validation engineering team members
• Identify skill gaps and drive team capability development

Program Execution Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end validation execution, including planning, scheduling, execution oversight, and reporting
• Define validation scope, coverage strategy, and detailed test plans aligned to requirements
• Ensure validation activities meet phase entry/exit criteria
• Ensure validation results provide clear and actionable engineering signal

Technical Management Responsibilities

• Guide validation methodology across functional, performance, reliability, compliance, and system-level testing
• Provide technical direction and oversight to engineers on coverage, prioritization, and defect quality
• Lead validation readiness reviews and support release gating decisions
• Ensure test configurations and execution align with product requirements and design intent
• Cross-Functional Responsibilities
• Act as the primary validation point of contact for program teams and stakeholders
• Communicate validation plans, status, risks, and issues clearly and effectively
• Partner with Electrical, Mechanical, Firmware, Systems, and Manufacturing teams to ensure design-for-validation
• Support customer interactions with validation data and technical insights

Operational Management Responsibilities

• Track and manage key validation metrics, including coverage, defect trends, and schedule adherence
• Ensure documentation of test plans, execution results, and lessons learned
• Drive continuous improvement in validation processes, tools, and reporting
• Support compliance to industry standards and customer requirements
• Roughly 10% travel

Job Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience in product development or validation engineering
• 3-5 years of experience leading engineering teams or technical leads

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong understanding of product validation methodologies and test lifecycle execution
• Experience with hardware systems (servers, storage, networking) and firmware interaction
• Strong program execution, prioritization, and risk management skills
• Ability to translate technical data into clear business and customer messaging
• Effective cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder communication

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