New Product Development Manager

About the role

The New Product Development Manager will lead the development of high speed datacom and telecom solutions used in AI applications. This role involves working closely with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to ensure alignment with market needs and drive product success.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements strategic product and annual business plans targeting markets, industries, and customers.
• Identifies product line trends and technologies.
• Leads long-term product planning.
• Gathers technical VOC (mechanical, thermal, SI, FW) from customers and translates it into engineering requirements for the development team.
• Translates system-level customer requirements into mechanical specifications for the development team, including cable routing, bending radius, shielding/grounding schemes, thermal paths, connector mate/unmate forces, and mechanical interfaces.
• Increase pipeline growth, customer wins, and revenue per million dollars (RPM).
• Collaborates with manufacturing engineers and cross-functional teams to ensure capex and product costs are aligned with market conditions.
• Controls product cost through design-for-cost and material selection; supports supplier engineering to meet quality and cost targets.
• Partners with cross-functional teams to diagnose and resolve thermal, mechanical, and electrical issues during customer qualification activities.
• Tracks capacity and drives capital investments supporting forecasted demand.
• Manages commercial negotiations with customers for new platform partnerships.
• Establishes and develops industry partner relationships.
• Supports Molex Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma, ISO, and EH&S Management Systems.
• Tracks and understands the competitive landscape, establishing and driving the technology roadmap.
• Develops and leads development projects to ensure timely completion and budget adherence.
• Develops marketing collateral to promote new technologies and penetrate the market.
• Drives product and technology releases internally while collaborating with marketing communications on launch strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering.
• 4+ years of experience within the high-speed Datacom market.
• 2+ years of sales experience calling on Datacom accounts.
• 2+ years of product management experience.

Qualifications

• Technical background (electrical or mechanical).
• Experience working with semiconductor/re-timer companies.
• Experience in negotiating and working with contract manufacturers and electronics market OEMs.

Skills

• Strategic thinking and planning.
• Customer relationship management.
• Product development expertise.
• Technical problem-solving.
• Business acumen and negotiation skills.
• Leadership and project management.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Life insurance.
• Disability coverage.
• Roth and traditional 401(k) plans.
• Paid vacation/time off.
• Education assistance.
• Infertility assistance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.

Pay

$130,000 - $160,000 per year.

Schedule

N/A