Director-Product Compliance

About this role

Company Overview

Amperesand is reinventing how the world powers its most critical systems.

We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption. Electricity demand is skyrocketing, driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth. Energy supply is shifting to incorporate a more diverse mix of resources – including solar, gas, and batteries – at a massive scale.

And yet the power infrastructure behind our latest mega-projects hasn’t meaningfully changed in nearly 100 years. Supply chains for today’s infrastructure equipment can’t match the pace and sophistication of critical energy projects. Amperesand is building hardware and software that rewrites this broken power infrastructure playbook to support a new era of energy abundance.

We’ve built a new class of intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products leveraging a decade of advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research that’s now ready for commercial deployment.

Our products and solutions go far beyond the capabilities of traditional electrical equipment. We make power systems that are faster to deploy, dramatically smaller and more efficient, and capable of supporting modern, dynamic energy needs for tomorrow’s most demanding energy consumers.

Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.

Amperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top tier investors who share our vision of building a category-defining energy technology company.

With hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is laser focused on building foundational technology to solve the most pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale.

Join us in building the power foundation of the future!

Head of Compliance — Amperesand

About Amperesand

Amperesand is building next-generation power infrastructure systems for data centers, EV charging platforms, and future energy applications. Our systems combine advanced power electronics, embedded controls, and scalable energy architectures to rethink how power is converted, controlled, and deployed.

Compliance is the team that guides the company through the certification process from inception through authorization to mark in a way that our customers and regulators can trust.

About the Role

We are looking for a Director, Product Compliance to evolve, build, and lead Amperesand's compliance department and own all compliance activity across the company's solid-state transformer platforms. This is a high-visibility, hands-on department leadership role. In this role, you are accountable for the full compliance program, including electrical safety, functional safety, cybersecurity, EMC/EMI, and certification execution, as well as for the people who deliver it.

As the Head of Compliance, you will operate as both a functional leader and a hands-on technical authority. You will set the strategy and build the organization while remaining directly engaged in critical technical reviews, certification activities, standards interpretation, testing strategy, and issue resolution. As the team scales, you will develop leaders and subject-matter experts while maintaining technical ownership of the overall compliance program.

UL 2877 and UL 1741 are the primary standards governing Amperesand's products and the backbone of the compliance program you will own. All other applicable standards, including IEC/UL 60730-1, IEC 62443, UL 1998, UL 991, IEEE 1547.1, and adjacent grid-interconnection and functional safety frameworks, are supporting standards that you will integrate into Amperesand's primary compliance framework.

This role combines strong people leadership with the technical depth and hands-on credibility to be Amperesand's internal and external authority on compliance, and the communication skill to align engineering, product, and executive stakeholders as well as customers and certification bodies around a single compliance strategy.

What You'll Do

Own the Compliance Department

• Build, lead, and scale Amperesand's compliance department as its functional leader — hiring, developing, and managing compliance engineers and managers across all compliance disciplines while remaining hands-on in critical compliance, certification, and technical activities.

• Set department-wide priorities, resourcing, and compliance roadmaps, and be personally accountable for the certification readiness of every Amperesand product line.

• Establish performance management, mentoring, and career development practices that build a durable, senior compliance organization.

Lead Compliance Strategy — UL 2877 and UL 1741 as the Primary Framework

• Define and execute Amperesand's overall product compliance strategy using UL 2877 and UL 1741 as the primary governing standards.

• Own the mapping of every supporting standard, functional safety (IEC/UL 60730-1), cybersecurity (IEC 62443), and related frameworks (UL 1998, UL 991, IEEE 1547.1) into compliance-driven product requirements.

• Serve as Amperesand's internal technical authority and final decision-maker on compliance interpretation, acceptance criteria, and risk trade-offs.

• Remain directly engaged in complex standards interpretation, technical reviews, and compliance decisions where hands-on technical leadership is required.

Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner directly with Engineering, Firmware, Controls, Systems Engineering, Product Management, and executive leadership to embed compliance requirements into product architecture from concept through certification.

• Act as the primary point of alignment when compliance, schedule, and engineering priorities conflict — resolving trade-offs with data and clear rationale.

• Work directly with engineering teams to identify and resolve compliance issues during product development,…