Vice President, Quality

Vice President, Quality

Group14 is the leading commercial manufacturer of advanced silicon battery materials. Our breakthrough technology, SCC55®, is unlocking transformational performance for rechargeable batteries that power the world's most critical innovations, from electric vehicles and AI-enabled electronics to eVTOLs and grid-scale energy storage. By enabling higher-density, faster-charging batteries, we are helping accelerate the global transition to an electrified future.

As we scale production of SCC55 to meet surging global demand, we are looking for a Vice President, Quality to institutionalize precision at every level of our organization. This role offers the unique opportunity to design and lead a global quality organization from the ground up, ensuring that our innovative manufacturing processes yield consistent, world-class products whether manufactured in North America, Europe, or Asia. You will be the authoritative voice for quality at every level of the organization, transforming technical complexity into a competitive advantage for our automotive and electronics customers.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Strategic Product Stewardship: Partner with Business Development, R&D and Product Management to define and defend a Global Standard Product Specification; ensure that "special" customer requirements do not compromise the ability to manufacture reliably and consistently at scale across all three regions.
• Gatekeeper of Change Management: Rigorously uphold global Change Management standards; ensure that any customer-requested specification changes undergo a formal impact analysis regarding yield, cost, and process stability before approval.
• R&D to Production Bridge: Collaborate with R&D and Engineering to ensure "Design for Quality" (DfQ) and "Design for Manufacturability" (DfM), ensuring new silicon carbon formulations can transition smoothly from the lab to high-volume global production.
• Commercial Partnership: Support Business Development teams during the technical discovery and RFP phases; act as the technical authority on quality during high-level customer negotiations to build trust in our global consistency.
• Manufacturing Synchronization: Work closely with Global Operations to harmonize manufacturing processes (Control Plans, PFMEAs) across South Korea, Germany, and the US, ensuring a "Copy Exactly" philosophy so that a product shipped from any factory is indistinguishable to the customer.
• Global Quality Strategy: Design and deploy a unified global QMS that integrates ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 standards across all regional manufacturing sites.
• OEM Relationship Management: Act as the primary quality liaison for automotive OEMs. Lead the Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) for new material launches.
• Cross-Regional Compliance: Ensure all products and processes comply with regional regulatory requirements in the EU, North America, and Asia.
• Supplier Quality Excellence: Oversee the qualification and auditing of raw material suppliers to ensure upstream consistency.
• Team Leadership: Build and mentor high-performing regional quality teams, fostering a culture of "Quality First" from the R&D lab through shipping to the customer.

What We're Looking For:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 15 years in Automotive Quality management.
• Proven track record working for a Tier 1/2 automotive supplier or an automotive OEM.
• Deep mastery of IATF 16949, ISO 9001, and VDA 6.3 (German automotive standards).
• Native or business-level fluency in English.

Other Qualities We'd Love For You To Have:

• Master's degree or MBA preferred.
• Direct experience in chemical manufacturing or battery component production.
• Language proficiency in Korean and/or German.
• Certification in one or more continuous improvement methodologies, such as Lean or Six Sigma.

The annual base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $250,000. All positions come with a bonus plan and company stock options. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, the applicant's qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the position is located. Please note that this is an office based job that may be based in any of our offices: Sangju (South Korea), Moses Lake, Washington, Seattle, Washington, Woodinville, Washington (United States of America).

Base Pay Range

$200,000 - $250,000 USD

Group14 Offers Compelling Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision: 100% paid for by the company for employees (80% for dependents) with an HSA-eligible plan option for Medical
• Employee Assistance Program
• Long-Term and Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance and AD and D Insurance (100% Employer Paid)
• Option to purchase additional Life and AD and D Insurance (with guaranteed issue) and Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Insurance coverages for you and dependents at affordable rates
• Discounted rates on Pet Insurance
• 401(k) with Pre-Tax and Roth options and Company Match
• Paid Time Off and Floating Holidays
• Stock Options

GROUP14 IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

We love creating opportunities for others by connecting people from widely diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. Being a diverse and inclusive company isn't just something we strive for, it's who we are and part of what we do each and every single day. We want to ensure that as an employee, you belong and that Group14 is the kind of workplace where you feel safe, included, and that you have the opportunity to thrive in your career.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

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Group14 is committed to a safe and productive work environment. As part of our hiring process, we conduct pre-employment drug screenings for substances in accordance with state and federal regulations. Please note that our pre-employment drug screening process does not include testing for THC.

Please note: We are not able to accommodate candidates in need of work sponsorship at this time.

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