Global Product Compliance Lead

Brunswick; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

Brunswick’s Navico Group seeks a seasoned leader to head global product and material compliance, overseeing a distributed team and defining governance across AMER and EMEA. You will drive certifications, supplier collaboration, and regulatory strategies from concept to conformity across markets.

The role partners with engineering, sourcing, operations, and commercial teams to ensure compliance is integrated into product roadmaps, with strong emphasis on data architecture, audits, and continuous

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronic, Mechatronics, or related engineering field (or equivalent experience).
• Advanced degree a plus.
• 7+ years in product compliance, including 3+ years leading teams (ideally distributed/global).
• Excellent communication and technical writing skills in English; able to present to executives, customers, and authorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead a global team of product compliance engineers and specialists across AMER and EMEA; set priorities, standards of work, and development plans.
• Define and continuously improve the compliance operating model: processes, tools, documentation standards, and stage-gate integration with product development.
• Communicate compliance status, risks, and non-conformities to executives, program managers, and engineering leadership with clear, practical, decision-ready recommendations.
• Define and maintain the regulatory data architecture supporting requirements governance, PLM, certification repositories, supplier disclosures, and compliance evidence.
• Ensure compliance requirements, certifications, declarations, test evidence, supplier disclosures, and regulatory obligations are digitally linked and traceable through the product lifecycle.
• Monitor, interpret evolving regulations across markets (AMER, EMEA, rest-of-world), evaluating impact on products.
• Translate regulation into actionable, product- and market-specific requirements integrated into roadmaps.
• Own end-to-end certification pipeline: planning, lab coordination, and Declarations of Conformity (CE, UKCA, FCC/ISED, UL/CSA, DNV, MED).

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronic, Mechatronics, or related engineering field

Advanced degree

Job description

Brunswick’s Navico Group seeks a seasoned leader to head global product and material compliance, overseeing a distributed team and defining governance across AMER and EMEA. You will drive certifications, supplier collaboration, and regulatory strategies from concept to conformity across markets.

The role partners with engineering, sourcing, operations, and commercial teams to ensure compliance is integrated into product roadmaps, with strong emphasis on data architecture, audits, and continuous