Head of Product Compliance (f/m/d)

Company: Orbem
Location: Germany
Employment type: Full-time

Your Role

Reporting directly to the Senior Director of Product, you will drive product quality management and regulatory compliance for Orbem's cutting-edge systems across the EU, US, and other upcoming markets. You will serve as the strategic bridge connecting complex hardware, software, and AI capabilities with international safety and industry standards. Leading and scaling the product compliance team, you will ensure our products meet global market standards and internal quality requirements fast.

Your Day-to-Day

• Enable Global Product Impact: Own compliance roadmaps for international market access, securing NRTL approvals and achieving CE marking through the Machinery Regulation and EMC Directive.
• Lead and Scale the Team: Mentor and grow the product compliance team, fostering a culture of continuous learning, fast delivery, and strong ownership.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product development disciplines, Field Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Legal experts to embed compliance and quality management seamlessly into our product lifecycle.
• Close the Conformity Loop: Own the path from field and production nonconformances through root-cause analysis and CAPA into updated risk assessments, technical files, and design changes, so what we learn on site changes what we build.
• Stakeholder Enablement: Translate complex regulatory frameworks into clear guidance, facilitating alignment and smooth execution across multidisciplinary teams.
• Agile Framework Optimization: Maintain structured compliance guidelines while adapting processes to support the fluid pace of a fast-growing scaleup environment. Champion system validation processes to ensure product reliability.
• Own Regulated Product Documentation: Take accountability for operator, installation, and maintenance manuals, safety markings, and translations as conformity deliverables in their own right, leading the technical writers who produce them.

Your Experience and Skills

• 10+ years of experience in compliance and quality management and proven experience in a leadership role, ideally within an agile scale-up or high-growth tech environment.
• Experience overseeing complex systems that combine hardware, software, and AI, ideally involving special machinery or automation equipment.
• You have run nonconformance and CAPA processes for complex electromechanical products, with hands-on root-cause practice (8D, FMEA, fault tree or equivalent) and a track record of field failures actually changing designs.
• Broad knowledge of international product compliance frameworks, specifically UL508A and NFPA79 approvals, and CE marking under the Machinery Regulation and EMC Directive.
• You have defined quality and compliance requirements in stage-gate processes, and built Design for Compliance and Design for Quality principles in the product development process.
• Track record of building, mentoring, and scaling technical teams.
• Strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder management skills with a collaborative leadership mindset.
• You are comfortable defining a common framework for acceptance criteria and verification evidence, including factory and site acceptance testing, calibration, and measurement traceability.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Direct domain experience with industrial automation systems in the food processing or agricultural sectors.
• Academic background in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Fit to Our Values

• We Own Every Challenge: we enjoy complexity and thrive under uncertainty.
• We Strive for Better: we seize any opportunity for growth and challenge the status quo. We are constantly learning and improving.
• We Imagine New Frontiers: we think beyond "doable" and "reasonable". We design a sustainable and healthy future together.

What We Offer

• International Environment: Join a team with 40+ nationalities across 5 continents, all driven by a shared purpose: shedding light on the world's toughest challenges.
• Stock Options: Share in Orbem's success.
• Relocation Support: Seamless support for your move to Germany.
• Learning & Development: €1,750 annual budget for personal growth.
• Fitness Membership: Access to Urban Sports Club or Wellpass.
• Childcare Reimbursement: Support for Kita/Kindergarten fees.
• Deutschland Ticket: Monthly subsidy towards public transportation costs.
• Flexible Hours & Home Office: Work when and where it suits you.
• WFH Perks: €185 to upgrade your home office plus an external monitor.
• 30 Days Paid Leave: Plenty of time to recharge.
• Personal Leave: Flexibility for life's important moments.
• Work From Anywhere: Up to 60 days per year.
• Make a Difference: Join an ambitious, fast-growing team working on breakthrough technology, with the freedom to lead your projects and make an impact.

Your Team

You'll become part of our diverse and international team. At Orbem, we're committed to helping you discover your strengths, and while we aim to teach you, we also want to learn from you. If you feel you don't meet every requirement, we'd love to hear from you anyway!