Principal Product Line Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute product line strategy to maximize product line revenues and profitability.
• Drive product line roadmaps with sales, engineering, and key stakeholders to define a compelling future vision.
• Define new differentiated products that create value by solving significant customer design challenges.
• Contribute to the Annual Operating Plan (AOP). Validate and justify new product definitions, by confirming value propositions with customers and demonstrating ROI potential.
• Develop customer relationships and partnerships through ongoing engagement, promoting products, roadmap, and capabilities to customers.
• Train internal and external sales teams to understand the value proposition of your individual products and overall portfolio.
• Champion new products through pre-kickoff and development - ensure strong cross-functional alignment across design, manufacturing, test, product engineering, quality, finance, and program teams.
• Lead market opportunity analysis by assessing TAM/SAM and understanding competitive dynamics and emerging application trends.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 12+ years of related experience or an equivalent amount of education and experience in RF/microwave semiconductor product management, product marketing, applications engineering, systems engineering, technical sales, or a related customer-facing technical/business role
• Experience working directly with customers in RF markets
• Ability to interpret customer specifications and develop compliant proposal responses
• Attention to detail, strong analytical and business skills, and ability to manage multiple projects in a dynamic environment
• Proven ability to influence and drive cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Direct experience working with RF products and Defense & Aerospace customers
• System-level understanding of RF, compound semiconductor ICs, and control subsystems and their components