Job Summary
The Function Manager is responsible for leading the end-to-end capability, execution excellence, and organizational growth of the Product Validation (PV) function. This role owns multi-project delivery, resource strategy, and validation methodology, ensuring alignment with customer expectations and company objectives across global sites (e.g., Taipei / Austin).
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing PV engineering team across multiple sites
- Define organizational structure, hiring plan, and capability roadmap
- Establish mentoring and succession planning to build future leaders
- Drive a culture of accountability, quality, and continuous improvement
- Define and standardize validation methodology, processes, and best practices
- Own validation strategy across multiple programs (coverage, scope, approach)
- Govern project execution to meet phase gate and release requirements
- Own headcount planning, skill mix optimization, and workload balancing
- Ensure sufficient validation infrastructure (systems, tools, environments)
- Drive cross-site execution model (Taipei / Austin) for scalability
- Define and track key quality and execution metrics, including:
- Validation coverage completeness
- Defect detection effectiveness and escape rate
- Test cycle time and execution efficiency
- Ensure projects achieve validation exit criteria and release readiness
- Lead executive-level technical reviews, risk discussions, and escalations
- Ensure clear communication of status, risks, and mitigation plans
- Define and drive automation and tool strategy aligned with business ROI
- Partner with Automation / AI/ML teams to improve productivity and coverage
- Drive innovation in validation methodology (e.g., automation, AI-assisted testing)
Job Qualifications
KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS
- Strong understanding of system-level validation
- 10+ years of industry experience with BMC development/validation
- Automation expertise
- Python or similar
- Robot Framework
- Jenkins
- Selenium or similar
- Demonstrated capability in project management, risk management, and execution governance
- Demonstrated success in leadership, problem-solving, and stakeholder influence.
- Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional coordination skills.
- Fluent in English and Chinese, both spoken and written.
Education & Experience Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering (EE/CE/CS or related field)
- 12+ years of experience in server/storage/network validation or related domain
- 3+ years of experience in leadership role
- Proven experience leading engineering teams and managing multi-project execution
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