Senior Business Analyst (Hardware Quality)
Job Summary
Job Description
WHOOP is seeking a Hardware Quality Analyst to join their Quality and Reliability team. The role involves analyzing manufacturing test data, monitoring field performance and support trends, performing reliability modeling, and collaborating with various teams to improve hardware quality. Responsibilities include identifying yield trends, tracking failure rates, calculating Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) and Total Warranty Return (TWR), and building reports with factory, field, and reliability metrics. The analyst will drive Early Field Failure Analysis (EFFA) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and provide thought leadership in a start-up environment to enhance the member experience.
Must have:
- 5+ years of experience in hardware/electronics quality or reliability
- Familiarity with factory test, product teardown, failure categorization
- Advanced SQL skills
- Understanding of ELT (dbt) and data warehousing (Snowflake)
- Experience with data visualization (Sigma, Looker, Tableau, Hex)
- Ability to wrangle data, isolate insights, visualize results, and communicate recommendations
- Success in influencing senior stakeholders on strategic direction
Good to have:
- Background in consumer electronics, wearables, or connected devices
- Exposure to scripting tools (Python, R) for advanced analytics
- Exposure to quality tools (Weibull++)
10 skills required
Job Details
At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance. WHOOP empowers users to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives.
We are hiring a Hardware Quality Analyst to partner closely with our Quality and Reliability team, supporting our efforts to utilize data and insights to make informed decisions and continuously improve hardware quality for both sustaining and future generations. We are looking for an individual who can be fluent in data, driven by member experience and is looking to deeply understand and tackle complex analytics challenges. This person should feel empowered to foster their own curiousity and raise support for ideas that meaningfully impact the WHOOP member experience.
*This role is based in the WHOOP office located in Boston, MA. The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Factory & Manufacturing Quality: Analyze manufacturing test data to identify yield trends and potential defects; collaborate closely with Quality and Manufacturing Engineering on process stability and early failure detection.
- Field Performance & Support Trends: Monitor warranty replacements and Membership Services data to detect hardware issues, track failure rates across product cohorts, and escalate emerging trends.
- Reliability Analysis & Modeling: Perform reliability modeling (e.g., Weibull analysis) to assess product lifespan; calculate AFR (Annualized Failure Rate) and TWR (Total Warranty Return); partner with Reliability and Test Engineering to refine predictive strategies.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Drive Early Field Failure Analysis (EFFA) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) efforts through structured data analysis; partner with Business Analytics, Data Engineering, and Product Development to ensure data integrity and validate quality improvements.
- Reporting & Communication: Build and maintain reporting that integrates factory, field, and reliability metrics; proactively identify and deliver insights during regular reviews with cross-functional teams.
- Analytical Rigor: Collaborate with a high-performance team in a start-up environment, providing thought leadership to identify the most impactful ways to build scalable processes, drive decisions, and improve the member experience.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 5+ years of experience in quality or reliability within a hardware or electronics domain with a desire to step into an analytical role (a background in consumer electronics, wearables, or connected devices is a plus!)
- Familiarity with factory test processes, product teardown, and failure categorization
- Advanced skills in SQL and general understanding of ELT (dbt) and data warehousing (Snowflake) structures, as well as data visualization (eg. Sigma, Looker, Tableau, Hex)
- Exposure to scripting tools (Python, R) for advanced analytics or modeling and/or quality tools (Weibull++)
- Able to take broad business questions, wrangle appropriate data, quickly isolate and model key insights, visualize results and communicate actionable recommendations.
- Demonstrated success in influencing senior stakeholders and leadership on strategic direction based on analytical recommendations.
Interested in the role, but don’t meet every qualification? We encourage you to still apply! At WHOOP, we believe there is much more to a candidate than what is written on paper, and we value character as much as experience. As we continue to build a diverse and inclusive environment, we encourage anyone who is interested in this role to apply.
WHOOP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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