Worldwide Quality Head – Senior Semiconductor Leadership

About the role

We are conducting a confidential senior‑leadership search for a global semiconductor company. The Worldwide Quality Head will drive quality performance across manufacturing partners, internal operations, product reliability, and strategic customer engagement on a global scale.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the global quality organization across Asia and Europe, defining priorities, operating rhythm, and performance expectations.
• Strengthen quality governance with external manufacturing partners, including foundries, assembly/test partners, and key suppliers.
• Improve product quality, reliability, yield stability, and customer‑facing quality performance throughout the product lifecycle.
• Drive automotive‑grade quality discipline and ensure alignment with international and industry standards.
• Build and enhance internal quality systems such as NPI quality gates, reliability reviews, supplier quality processes, and continuous‑improvement programs.
• Partner with senior leaders in operations, R&D, supply chain, business units, and customer‑facing teams to embed quality as a business‑level priority.

Required profile

• 15–25 years of semiconductor industry experience, including senior quality leadership in an international environment.
• Proven ability to lead multi‑site teams across diverse cultures, especially in the Asia (China) region.
• Strong exposure to automotive semiconductor quality, supplier quality, manufacturing quality, reliability, and customer quality.
• Experience working with foundry and outsourced manufacturing partners.

Required skills

• Automotive semiconductor quality standards
• Supplier quality management
• Manufacturing quality control
• Reliability engineering