Senior Director - Product Reliability

Job Description

We are seeking a dynamic and technically skilled Head of Product Reliability to lead our efforts in delivering highly reliable and durable electrolyzer products. This is a mission-critical leadership role requiring close collaboration with engineering, operations, field services, and quality teams to ensure our products perform consistently and safely in demanding real-world environments.

As a key cross-functional leader, you will own the reliability strategy from early design and development through production, deployment, and field operations. You will lead a team responsible for design-for-reliability (DfR), failure analysis, testing, predictive modeling, and continuous improvement, driving product excellence across the lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the end-to-end product reliability strategy across design, testing, manufacturing, and field performance for electrolyzer systems.
• Collaborate deeply with design engineering, R&D, and systems engineering to embed reliability into early design stages (FMEA, DfR, HALT, etc.).
• Partner with operations and quality teams to monitor manufacturing consistency, identify systemic issues, and implement corrective/preventive actions (CAPA).
• Work closely with field service and customer success to collect, analyze, and respond to real-world performance data and customer feedback.
• Own and drive reliability testing programs, including accelerated life testing, environmental testing, stress testing, and statistical reliability validation.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) on field and test failures, ensuring closed-loop learning feeds back into future designs.
• Build and scale a high-performing reliability engineering team with strong analytical and experimental capabilities.
• Present reliability metrics and insights to executive leadership, supporting product roadmap and risk management decisions.
• Ensure compliance with relevant industry standards, safety regulations, and certification requirements.

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical Engineering or related discipline
• 15+ years of experience in product reliability, systems engineering, or product development, ideally with automotive industry.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional reliability programs for complex, electro-mechanical products.
• Deep knowledge of reliability engineering tools and methodologies (FMEA, Weibull analysis, HALT/HASS, DFMEA, etc.).
• Background in automotive reliability, or industrial energy equipment is a strong plus.
• Proven ability to bridge engineering and operational teams to drive measurable product improvements.
• Strong data analysis skills; proficiency with reliability modeling tools and statistical software.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and organizational skills

Ohmium is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.