Director, Magnetics Development

About the Role

The Director – Magnetics Development will lead the strategic and technical development of the ICMM magnetics business, driving profitable growth through differentiated products, strong customer engagement, and disciplined technology development. This role combines technical leadership with commercial ownership, translating market and customer needs into product line strategy, technology roadmaps, and executable new product development programs.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the long-term growth strategy for the ICMM magnetics product group, focusing on profitable revenue growth, market share expansion, and sustainable competitive advantage.
• Lead new product development across the magnetics portfolio, from market opportunity and concept definition through development, customer qualification, launch, and production ramp.
• Define and maintain the magnetics product line strategy and roadmap, prioritizing investments based on market attractiveness, customer demand, technology trends, competitive position, profitability, and ICMM capabilities.
• Build and own the technology roadmap for integrated connector modules (ICM), discrete magnetics, and adjacent magnetic technologies.
• Establish strong senior technical and business relationships with strategic customers, serving as a key interface for roadmap discussions, early architecture engagement, product definition, and development priorities.
• Translate customer platform roadmaps, market trends, and emerging requirements into differentiated product concepts and actionable development programs.
• Partner with Sales and Product Management to identify target customers, applications, and design-in opportunities, and develop winning value propositions and go-to-market plans.
• Own the business case discipline for new developments, including target market, expected revenue, pricing, cost, investment, resource requirements, risk, and return.
• Drive design-to-cost and manufacturing competitiveness from the beginning of product development.
• Build deep understanding of competitors, alternative technologies, and market dynamics to guide portfolio choices and technology investment.
• Build and develop a high-performing global magnetics development organization.
• Ensure effective collaboration across Product Management, Engineering, SI, Operations, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Quality, Marketing, and regional Sales teams.
• Develop strategic relationships with PHY/IC vendors, technology partners, universities, suppliers, and customer test organizations.
• Create a strong pipeline of next-generation technologies and product concepts.
• Provide transparent leadership on portfolio performance, development priorities, investment needs, technical risks, and growth opportunities.

Measures of Success

• Profitable growth and improved market position of the magnetics product group.
• Strong, prioritized product and technology roadmaps linked to customer and market needs.
• Increased pipeline and conversion of strategic customer design wins.
• Successful launch of differentiated new products with competitive cost, quality, and timing.
• Expansion into attractive new applications, customers, and adjacent magnetics opportunities.
• Improved customer relationships and earlier engagement in customer platform definition.
• A strong development organization with technical depth, business judgment, and leadership capability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or another relevant technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience in technical product development within magnetics, interconnects, communications hardware, power electronics, or an adjacent electronics industry.
• Proven leadership of complex new product development from opportunity definition through qualification and production launch.
• Demonstrated business experience connecting technology and product decisions to revenue growth, margin, investment, and market position.
• Experience developing product, technology, or market strategies and converting them into executable roadmaps and priorities.
• Ability to lead strategic customer discussions at both technical and business levels.
• Strong cross-functional leadership, communication, analytical, and influencing skills in a global organization.
• Ability to make sound trade-offs among customer value, technical performance, speed, cost, quality, risk, and manufacturability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience in Ethernet magnetics, integrated connector modules (ICM), discrete magnetics, transformers, common-mode chokes, or related magnetic components.
• Existing knowledge of the magnetics market, major customers, competitors, suppliers, technology trends, and industry ecosystem.
• Experience with Ethernet architectures, PHY interfaces, PoE requirements, and system-level electrical performance.
• Established relationships with strategic OEM, ODM, semiconductor/PHY, or networking customers and ecosystem partners.
• Experience managing a product line or business with responsibility for growth, profitability, portfolio choices, and investment prioritization.
• Experience developing global engineering or product organizations and attracting/developing strong technical talent.
• Experience with high-volume, cost-competitive Asian electronics manufacturing and supply chains.
• Master's degree in an engineering, science, or business discipline.

For this role, we anticipate paying $200,000 - $250,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.