# Executive Director of Quality - IP

**Company**: Synopsys
**Location**: Sunnyvale, California
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $257000-$385000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: SNPS
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2303478

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## Description

You are an execution-focused Quality Executive with a proven track record of driving key quality initiatives across the entire product lifecycle.

You will drive end-to-end planning and execution for cross-functional quality initiatives, ensuring clarity in scope, timelines, deliverables, and accountability.

Key responsibilities include:

- Developing and maintaining dashboards and key metrics to track progress, highlight risks, and support data-driven decision-making.

- Tracking progress against schedules and key objectives, ensuring risks are flagged early and managed proactively.

- Leading cross-functional alignment through structured check-ins and ongoing stakeholder engagement to resolve issues and maintain momentum.

- Delivering progress updates, insights, and risk assessments to executive leaders, driving alignment and focus on key outcomes.

- Championing best practices in program management, fostering a culture of execution, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

- Managing multiple initiatives simultaneously, ensuring detailed follow-through and timely delivery.

The Impact You Will Have:

- Keeping progress on key quality initiatives visible through dashboards, KPIs, and regular status updates.

- Driving clarity and alignment across cross-functional teams, ensuring initiatives stay on track and progress is made.

- Proactively identifying and addressing obstacles quickly to maintain momentum and avoid delays.

- Providing concise, meaningful updates to executive leaders that enable successful outcomes.

- Enabling data-driven decision-making through robust metric tracking and reporting.

- Strengthening quality processes and accountability, enhancing Synopsys’ reputation for reliable and high-performance IP solutions.

Requirements:

- 10+ years of experience driving quality initiatives through the full product lifecycle, with exceptional program or project management expertise.

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline or equivalent experience.

- Working knowledge of semiconductor industry, silicon IP design flows, and methodologies.

- Strong execution skills with a proven ability to drive planning, timelines, and deliverables across cross-functional teams.

- Excellent communication skills, providing executive-level updates and driving alignment.

- Ability to lead by influence and foster collaboration across various stakeholders, driving accountability.

- Comfortable managing multiple initiatives simultaneously, with strong attention to detail and follow-through.

- Skilled at tracking progress through dashboards, metrics, and regular status updates.

- Proficiency with project collaboration tools: Microsoft Project, Confluence, Jira.

Rewards and Benefits: We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings.

## Skills

### Required
- semiconductor industry
- silicon IP design flows
- program management
- project collaboration tools
- Microsoft Project
- Confluence
- Jira
- data-driven decision-making
- risk management
- problem solving
- change management

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