Global Head of Enterprise Standards - TX, Austin, Plaza on the Lake, United States

Originally posted 25 September 2026 by the employer.

This role provides executive leadership for software quality, functional safety, product security assurance, and Responsible AI governance.

About the role

This role provides executive leadership for software quality, functional safety, product security assurance, and Responsible AI governance across products, software, systems, and emerging technologies. This individual will shape the strategies, operating models, capabilities, and assurance practices for Analog Devices.

What you'll do

• Set the global strategy and operating model for software quality, functional safety, product security assurance, and Responsible AI governance.
• Lead and develop global teams of technical leaders and subject-matter experts across these four disciplines.
• Establish functional safety capabilities that integrate hazard analysis, safety planning, safety cases, assessment, and assurance into product and system development.
• Direct product security assurance across secure development lifecycles, security risk assessment, vulnerability management, product incident readiness, and independent assurance.
• Lead Responsible AI governance, including integrated AI and data governance, use-case risk classification, lifecycle controls, human oversight, evaluation, monitoring, and accountability.
• Ensure development processes support safe, secure, reliable, high-quality, and trustworthy products and solutions.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, software engineering, quality, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Extensive leadership experience in the semiconductor, technology, software, or embedded systems industry.
• Demonstrated executive expertise in multiple core areas among software quality, functional safety, product security assurance, and Responsible AI governance.
• Proven experience building and leading global technical organizations and influencing complex, cross-functional stakeholder groups.
• Strong understanding of product and software development lifecycles, risk-based assurance, independent assessment, governance, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated success improving organizational maturity and embedding quality, safety, security, or trustworthy AI practices into engineering execution.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in engineering, computer science, technology, or business.
• Experience leading enterprise software quality or software process improvement programs, including assurance, metrics, corrective action, and lifecycle governance.
• Experience with functional safety engineering and assurance for safety-related products or systems.
• Experience leading product security assurance, secure development, security risk management, or product vulnerability governance.
• Experience establishing integrated Responsible AI and data governance frameworks, including data ownership and stewardship, quality and fitness for purpose, provenance and lineage, access controls, privacy, security, documentation, and lifecycle oversight for AI-enabled systems.
• Working knowledge of relevant quality, functional safety, cybersecurity, software process maturity, and AI management-system standards and frameworks.
• Experience coordinating product regulatory compliance and CE-marking activities.
• Experience representing a company in selected certification bodies, consortia, regulatory forums, or standards development organizations.

Skills: Global Head of Enterprise Standards, software quality, functional safety, product security assurance, Responsible AI governance