Manager, Product Integrity - Connected Products

Job Description

Fortune Brands Innovations is hiring a Manager, Product Integrity to join our Connected Products team. Product Integrity is the team that confirms our connected products — Flo by Moen water devices, Yale and August smart locks, and Master Lock connected padlocks — do what their requirements say they do before they reach a customer. This role leads that team and owns the bridge between requirements and proof: taking what Product, Systems Architecture, and Compliance ask for and turning it into tests with a method, a sample size, and a pass/fail criterion.

The role also owns 100% end-of-line testing at the factory, including test fixture design and test software. Depending on test complexity, fixtures are built fully in-house or developed with a supplier.

We are looking for a leader who can spearhead the product quality and integrity function covering test definition, systems integration, test execution, and holding a high product integrity bar. This leader will lead a hardware testing team. The right person understands the whole product — electrical, mechanical, firmware, and how they interact — well enough to argue a requirement with Product, an interface with Architecture, and the statistics with Reliability, and then run the lab that proves it.

Position location: this position is eligible to work in a hybrid environment out of our North Olmsted, OH or San Francisco, CA locations. 

What you will own

• The Product Integrity team. Lead a team of test engineers covering production and 100% test, hardware test, reliability test, quality inspection, and overall confirmation of product requirements. You set the direction and the standard; the team executes.
• Requirements into tests. Turn every hardware requirement in the PRD — from Product, Systems Architecture, and Compliance — into a testable requirement with a method, a sample size, an acceptance criterion, and a gate. Product defines the design envelope; you define how we test to it.
• Gate evidence. Every stage gate (EVT, DVT, PVT) carries your evidence package: what was tested, against which requirement, with what result.
• Reliability. Define the reliability test plan for each program and own the statistics behind it: sample sizes, confidence levels, and acceleration factors for environmental testing.
• Production test. Develop fixtures and test software that meet approved cycle times, with test limits tied to expected field performance.
• Field performance. Review returns and field data, and feed what you learn back into requirements and test plans.

The team and the logistics

• Team: test engineers covering production test, hardware test, reliability test, and quality inspection. The lab is in North Olmsted.
• Location: North Olmsted, OH or San Francisco, CA. If based in San Francisco, expect occasional travel to North Olmsted.
• Travel: ~15%. Travel to factories in Nogales and Tecate, Mexico; Hanoi, Vietnam; and between North Olmsted and San Francisco.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• 10+ years on connected consumer hardware spanning electrical, mechanical, and firmware.

• Experience developing factory test fixtures at both board level and end of line.

• Experience writing requirements and V&V plans.

• Reliability engineering fluency: accelerated life testing, Weibull and AFR math, sample sizing at a stated confidence, HALT/HASS, thermal, drop, and cycle life. You can design a plan and read a failure.

• Production test experience: fixtures, test software, DFT, cycle time, and yield at a contract manufacturer.

• Has led a small technical team and is comfortable setting direction for test engineers who are more hands-on than you.

Nice to have

• Battery power model development.

• Sensor products with calibration and drift requirements.

• Sealed or outdoor enclosures.

• RF performance characterization.

• Certification literacy across safety (UL), RF (FCC), and interop (Matter/CSA); NSF/IAPMO for water products or BHMA for locks.

Additional Information

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $90,000 USD - $143,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits, adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) to foster a sense of belonging for all associates.

Fortune Brands is built on industry-leading brands and innovation within the high-growth categories of water, outdoors and security. The Company makes innovative products for residential and commercial environments, with a growing focus on digital solutions and products that add luxury, contribute to safety and enhance sustainability. To learn more, visit our website at fbin.com.

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