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

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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