Sr. Director, Product Safety and Technical Compliance

Peloton Peloton · Consumer · Headquarters, NY · Security & Risk

Lead Peloton's global Technical Product Safety and Regulatory Compliance organization, ensuring products meet high standards of safety, quality, and compliance. Define and execute strategy, manage budgets, and drive continuous improvement. Partner with cross-functional teams, serve as a technical authority, and represent Peloton in external forums. Requires 7+ years of leadership experience in Product Safety, Regulatory Compliance, or Quality, with a strong understanding of global regulations and structured problem-solving methodologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the senior technical authority and escalation leader for product safety investigations, incidents, and member-impacting events in close partnership with cross-functional teams
  2. Lead the Product Investigation Council, ensuring timely, rigorous, and data-driven decision-making
  3. Proactively identify, assess, prioritize, and mitigate product safety risks across the product portfolio
  4. Define and implement the vision, strategy, and operating model for a comprehensive Global Technical Product Safety and Regulatory Compliance program
  5. Partner with Quality, Operations, Engineering, Product Management, and Customer Experience leaders to ensure end-to-end product safety and compliance across the full product lifecycle

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of leadership experience in Product Safety, Regulatory Compliance and/or Quality
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (advanced degree preferred)
  • Proven experience leading global, cross-functional teams across multiple products, regions, and stakeholders
  • 5+ years of experience in consumer goods (B2C) environments
  • Demonstrated success developing and executing product safety and regulatory compliance strategies at scale
  • Strong expertise in structured problem-solving methodologies, including 8D and similar tools
  • Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to align cross-functional leaders and present effectively to executive stakeholders
  • Sound judgment and the ability to navigate complex, high-impact decisions in fast-paced environments

Nice to have

  • Experience in fitness, connected devices, or consumer electronics industries is a plus
  • Familiarity with product risk management, regulatory reporting, and agency engagement (e.g., CPSC, EU Safety Gate/RAPEX, or similar authorities) is a plus
  • Experience partnering with external manufacturers, suppliers, and testing laboratories to ensure compliance and continuous improvement is a plus
  • Strong understanding of Design for Safety principles, hazard analysis methodologies (e.g., FMEA, fault tree analysis), and risk-based decision-making is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • global
  • product safety
  • regulatory compliance
  • technical authority
  • risk