Senior Manager, Product Quality & Customer Experience

McAfee GmbH; Frisco (TX); On-site; USD 124,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Program

401k Retirement

Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage

Paid Parental Leave

Sick Time & Vacation Accrual

Job summary

McAfee seeks a Senior Manager to establish and lead a new Customer Experience Validation & Product Quality function. You will act as the independent customer advocate across the lifecycle, aligning product delivery with customer needs and reducing friction.

You will build a small, high-leverage team focusing on journey validation, real-world testing, launch readiness, and post-launch quality monitoring. Partner with Product, Engineering, Support, VOC, Analytics, and CX Lab to improve quality and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of leadership in product quality, customer experience, or related fields.
• Experience guiding cross-functional initiatives with product and engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of software release processes and quality methodologies.
• Ability to use customer feedback and analytics to drive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the new Customer Experience Validation and Product Quality function.
• Develop and implement launch-readiness standards and certification processes.
• Define scorecards and reporting on quality and customer impact.
• Own end-to-end customer journey assessments and identify friction points.
• Prioritize improvements based on business value and customer impact.
• Drive executive discussions on product quality and release risk.
• Foster cross-functional partnerships to improve customer outcomes.

Skills

Leadership experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Release management

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder influence

Team leadership

Job description

Role Summary

McAfee is seeking a Senior Manager of Customer Experience Validation & Product Quality to establish and lead a new function within Customer Services. This role will serve as the independent customer advocate throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring that releases are validated from the customer's perspective and that customer experience issues are identified and addressed before broad market impact.

The successful candidate will build and lead a small, highly leveraged team responsible for customer journey validation, real-world environment testing, launch readiness assessments, post-launch quality monitoring, and customer-impact analysis. The leader will partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Customer Support, Voice of the Customer, Analytics, and Customer Services Tools & Innovation teams to improve product quality, reduce customer effort, and lower support demand.

Position Details

Key Responsibilities

Build and Lead the Customer Experience Validation Function

• Establish the vision, strategy, operating model, and governance for Customer Experience Validation & Product Quality.
• Build a scalable team focused on customer-centric quality assessment and release validation.
• Create launch-readiness standards and customer experience certification processes.
• Develop scorecards and executive reporting on quality, customer impact, and launch readiness.

Customer Experience Validation

• Own end-to-end customer journey assessments across onboarding, activation, installation, renewal, account creation, device protection, VPN, and identity experiences.
• Evaluate customer friction, confusion, abandonment points, and effort throughout key customer journeys.
• Conduct pre-launch experience reviews and provide release recommendations.
• Identify opportunities to improve product usability, adoption, and retention.
• Act as true “Voice of the Customer” while vetting product enhancements and maintenance to ensure they make sense and provide incremental product value

Product Quality & Release Readiness

• Lead customer-focused testing of new releases, updates, and new customer experiences.
• Develop test plans covering real-world customer environments, physical devices, operating systems, browsers, OEM experiences, and account configurations.
• Validate product quality prior to launch and recommend go/no-go decisions based on customer readiness.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to ensure customer-impacting issues are addressed.

Voice of Customer & Defect Management

• Leverage customer support contacts, VOC insights, surveys, escalations, and analytics to identify emerging issues.
• Recreate customer defects and degraded experiences reported through support channels.
• Quantify customer impact and prioritize improvements based on business value.
• Develop mechanisms to ensure customer feedback directly influences product decisions.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Serve as the primary liaison between Customer Services, Product Management, Engineering, CX Lab, VOC, Analytics, and Support Operations.
• Drive executive discussions regarding product quality, customer impact, and release risk.
• Influence roadmaps and prioritization through data-driven customer insights.
• Build strong partnerships across the company to improve customer outcomes.

Success Metrics

The Senior Manager will be accountable for measurable business and customer outcomes, including:

Customer Experience

• Reduced customer effort across key journeys
• Improved onboarding and activation success rates
• Improved customer sentiment and satisfaction
• Reduced customer friction and abandonment

Product Quality

• Reduction in customer-impacting defects escaping to production
• Increase in defect detection before launch
• Improved launch readiness scores
• Increased percentage of releases meeting "clean release" criteria

Business Impact

• Reduced customer contact volume attributable to product issues
• Improved self-service and containment opportunities
• Improved product adoption and retention
• Demonstrated financial return exceeding investment in the function

Operational Excellence

• 100% review of major product releases
• 80%+ coverage of prioritized customer environments and device types
• Timely reproduction and validation of customer-reported issues
• Executive reporting visibility into quality and customer experience trends

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of leadership experience in Product Quality, Customer Experience, Technical Support, Quality Engineering, Product Operations, or related fields.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving Product and Engineering organizations.
• Strong understanding of software release processes and quality methodologies.
• Experience utilizing customer feedback, analytics, and operational data to drive improvements.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and drive organizational change.
• Demonstrated success leading technical and customer-focused teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within cybersecurity, SaaS, consumer software, or technology industries.
• Knowledge of customer journey mapping and customer experience methodologies.
• Experience with Voice of Customer programs and root cause analysis.
• Familiarity with testing across multiple operating systems, browsers, device types, and consumer environments.
• Experience supporting launch readiness programs and go-to-market initiatives.

Company Overview

McAfee is a leader in personal security for consumers. Focused on protecting people, not just devices, McAfee consumer solutions adapt to users’ needs in an always online world, empowering them to live securely through integrated, intuitive solutions that protects their families and communities with the right security at the right moment.

Company Benefits and Perks

• Bonus Program
• 401k Retirement
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, Short Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Coverage
• Paid Parental Leave
• Support and Community Involvement
• 14 Paid Company Holidays
• Unlimited Paid Time Off for Exempt Employees
• 96 Hours of Sick Time and 120 Hours of Vacation for Non‑Exempt Employees Accrued Each Year

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Pay Range

The anticipated compensation for this position is USD $124,380.00/Yr. - USD $204,330.00/Yr. depending on experience and qualifications.

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