Job description
McKinley Marketing Partner's client is seeking a senior product line manager to join their team. The product line manager will define and lead the commercialization efforts for their coherent modems and technologies. This is an individual contributor role that will influence the coherent modem business across market consumption models.
This position can be fully remote.
Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally to help define industry best practices of selling modem components as products to customers
- Develop commercialization requirements such as SDK, documentation content, and sales support framework
- Define commercial offer and pricing structure that is in line with the industry norm
- Develop business cases and get approval for new features or initiatives
- Assess customer needs, technology trends, regulatory environment, and major competitors
- Gather feature requirements from key customers (end customers, product marketing, and sales organization)
- Develop and maintain strategic product roadmap, priorities, and gap analysis
- Partner with marketing teams to develop product positioning and marketing collaterals (e.g., external presentations, data sheets, value propositions, competitive analyses, etc.)
- Work with product line managers and R&D architects in prioritizing features and defining roadmaps
- Assist sales with coherent modem/components roadmap presentations, collecting customer requirements, assessing modem/components fit to customer needs and preparing product specifications and proposals including responding to customer RFI/RFP for all coherent modem/components related requirements
- Serve as a key interface between engineering and sales/customers
- ~20% travel required including international and China (e.g. customer visits, trade shows, cross-functional meetings, etc.)
Requirements
- Technical degree (BSEE minimum)
- At least 10 years of technical experience in telecommunications or component industry
- Product management, solutions architect, or technical marketing experience is highly preferred
- Familiarity with the major players in the optical interconnect market, their products, positioning, and strategies
- Solid knowledge of high-speed interconnect technologies (such as coherent, direct detect, Serdes, PHYs, electro-optics) and consumption models (modules, bare dies, chiplets)
- Technical background and understanding of a wide variety of interconnect technologies, emerging component options and standards
- Solid understanding of how to commercialize interconnect optics and sub-components – expert in understanding of component product sales approach and competitive landscape
- Excellent communication, presentation, customer interaction and interpersonal skills
- Ability to communicate highly technical matters to non-technical individuals.
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