VP, Engineering & Quality

Our Beauty & Wellness division empowers consumers with trusted products that support self-care, from salon-quality styling tools to wellness devices like humidifiers and air purifiers. Our innovative products and solutions promote healthy living, elevating the lives of consumers every day. This business unit includes Braun, PUR, Honeywell, Vicks, Hot Tools, Drybar, Curlsmith, and Revlon brands, and this role may support one or more of these brands.

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Position: VP, Engineering & Quality

Department: Engineering - Beauty & Wellness

Work Location:

 Marlborough, MA, Hybrid (work 3 days onsite)

Hybrid

Schedule:

 At Helen of Troy, we embrace a flexible hybrid work model designed to support collaboration and productivity. For roles eligible for hybrid work, our standard schedule includes in-office collaboration from Tuesday through Thursday, with the option to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays. Any updates to this model will be communicated in advance. Please note that hybrid eligibility and schedules may vary based on business needs and manager expectations.

What you will be doing:

The Vice President of Engineering & Quality is responsible for leading the engineering organization for a $1B global Beauty & Wellness business unit, overseeing the design, development, and quality of a diverse portfolio of consumer products including home appliances, water filtration systems, humidifiers, consumer medical devices, beauty tools, and beauty liquids.

Reporting directly to the President of the Business Unit and serving as a member of the leadership team, this role leads a multidisciplinary engineering and advanced quality organization responsible for bringing innovative products to market and ensuring quality is built into every stage of product development.

The VP partners closely with the Vice Presidents of Innovation for Beauty and Wellness, as well as global Supply Chain leadership, to deliver approximately 30-40 new product development programs annually. The role also drives the engineering strategy, builds organizational capability, and ensures strong collaboration with global manufacturing partners across Asia and North America.

This is a hands-on leadership role suited for an experienced engineering executive who is passionate about consumer products and energized by building high-performing engineering teams that deliver innovation, speed, and product excellence.

Engineering & Product Development Leadership

* Lead the engineering organization responsible for the design, development, and launch of consumer products across the Beauty and Wellness portfolio.

* Partner with Innovation leadership to deliver 30-40 new product launches annually, ensuring programs meet performance targets, cost objectives, and launch timelines.

* Ensure engineering excellence across mechanical, electrical, hardware, firmware/software, materials, packaging, formulation, and quality disciplines.

* Provide technical leadership across product architecture, system design, testing, and product reliability.

Quality Leadership

* Lead Advanced Quality Engineering to ensure quality is designed into products from the earliest stages of development.

* Drive robust design validation, risk mitigation, and problem-solving processes during product development.

* Lead cross-functional investigations and engineering responses to post-launch product quality issues when design-related.

Technology Strategy & Innovation

* Define and execute the Engineering and Quality strategy aligned with business growth objectives.

* Lead Advanced Development and Technology initiatives focused on identifying emerging technologies and developing product concepts 2-3 years ahead of commercialization.

* Evaluate opportunities to buy, build, or partner on new technologies that strengthen product…