Senior Manager, Design Quality

Illumina; San Diego (CA); Sur place; USD 142 000 - 212 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health benefits

Résumé du poste

Illumina is seeking a Senior Manager, Design Quality to lead a team of Design Quality professionals and partner with Product Development to ensure robust quality strategies. This role drives design controls, verification, validation, and risk-based decisions across development programs.

The successful candidate will mentor staff, shape Quality System practices, and align resources with program priorities while delivering technically rigorous, compliant results and enabling faster product

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree with extensive related experience.
• Minimum of 12 years of related experience.
• 3–6 years of management experience.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration required.

Responsabilités

• Supervises and provides direct project leadership for Design Quality across programs.
• Establishes fit-for-purpose quality strategies for development programs.
• Leads product risk management and documentation throughout development.
• Provides independent quality direction for complex issues.
• Builds a high-performing Design Quality team through coaching and development.
• Aligns resources with priorities and escalates risks as needed.
• Represents Design Quality in governance forums and communicates evidence-based recommendations.

Connaissances

Team leadership

Quality strategy

Risk management

Statistical methods

Formation

Bachelor's degree

Description du poste

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity? At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.

Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

Position Summary

The Senior Manager, Design Quality is a hands-on Quality leader who combines supervisory responsibilities with direct Design Quality support for product-development programs. The role leads and develops a team of Design Quality professionals while partnering with Product Development to establish fit-for-purpose Quality strategies, identify and address risk early, and ensure development decisions are supported by appropriate technical evidence and rigor.

Responsibilities

The Senior Manager is accountable for effective Design Quality execution across assigned programs, including product risk management, design controls, verification and validation, design transfer, process validation, change management, and resolution of product quality issues. The role provides direct technical Quality leadership on assigned programs while aligning Design Quality resources with business and portfolio priorities. The Senior Manager builds a high-performing Design Quality organization by developing technical and leadership capability, strengthening cross-functional partnerships, ensuring significant risks are appropriately addressed and escalated, and continuously improving the effectiveness of Design Quality practices and the Quality System. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs, and other related duties may be assigned.

Scope of Responsibilities

• Supervisory and direct project leadership: Combines leadership of Design Quality professionals with direct support of product-development programs and other priority work. Provides coaching, technical guidance, independent Quality challenge, document review and approval, and timely resolution of complex product and Quality issues.
• Design Quality strategy and execution: Establishes fit-for-purpose Quality strategies and enables effective execution across product-development programs, including design planning, requirements, design reviews, verification and validation, design transfer, process validation, change management, and resolution of product quality issues.
• Product risk management: Leads and supports activities to ensure product risks are identified, evaluated, controlled, communicated, and appropriately documented throughout development. Ensures risk-management strategies and evidence support product and program decisions.
• Technical Quality leadership: Ensures development strategies and decisions are supported by appropriate technical evidence, Quality rigor, statistical methods, and risk-based rationale. Provides independent Quality direction and challenge for complex, ambiguous, or high-risk issues.
• People and organizational leadership: Builds and sustains a high-performing Design Quality team through effective coaching, performance management, technical development, succession planning, cross-training, and meaningful development opportunities. Establishes clear objectives, expectations, and accountability for results.
• Resource and priority management: Aligns Design Quality resources and individual assignments with business, portfolio, and program priorities while balancing supervisory responsibilities, direct project support, and emerging Quality risks.
• Cross-functional leadership and influence: Partners across Product Development and Quality functions to resolve complex issues, establish clear roles and decision rights, and drive timely, technically sound, compliant, and risk-informed decisions.
• Quality governance and escalation: Ensures significant product, compliance, Quality System, and program risks are visible, appropriately escalated, and driven to resolution. Represents Design Quality in cross-functional governance forums and communicates clear, evidence-based recommendations to senior leadership.
• Quality System and continuous improvement: Drives effective and consistent Design Quality practices, ensures appropriate evidence of product and Quality System compliance and readiness, and improves processes, procedures, tools, and methods that strengthen Design Quality performance.

Education / Experience

Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 12 years of related experience, with 3-6 years of Management experience.

Salary & Compensation

The estimated base salary range for the Senior Manager, Design Quality role based in the United States of America is: $141,600 - $212,400. Should the level or location of the role change during the hiring process, the applicable base pay range may be updated accordingly. The range reflects long-term growth in the role; therefore, most candidates are hired between the minimum and middle of the range. Placement depends on experience, skills, location, and internal equity. Additionally, all employees are eligible for one of our variable cash programs (bonus or commission) and eligible roles may receive equity as part of the compensation package.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits as innovative as our work.

• access to genomics sequencing
• family planning
• health/dental/vision
• retirement benefits
• paid time off

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to confirm a zero-net gap in pay, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or race.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information.

Background Checks

Illumina conducts background checks on applicants for whom a conditional offer of employment has been made. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws. Background check results may potentially result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. The background check process and any decisions made as a result shall be made in accordance with all applicable local, state, and federal laws.

AI Prohibition

Illumina prohibits the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the application and interview process.

Accommodations

If you require accommodation to complete the application or interview process, please contact [e-mail].

Visa Sponsorship

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Posting Period

The position will be posted until a final candidate is selected or the requisition has a sufficient number of qualified applicants.

About Illumina

The potential of genomics to change the world is unparalleled. At Illumina, we are leading the way. Our technology empowers researchers and clinicians globally to improve cancer treatments, change the course of diseases, protect the environment, and fight food insecurity. We are made up of dedicated professionals, all-in on creating a better world – and we need every skill set on our path to making genomics useful for all.