Product Line Director - Optical Transceivers

About the role

The Global Director of Product Line Management (PLM) at Your Job Smiths Interconnect, a Molex company, leads a high-performing global team responsible for rugged embedded fiber optic transceiver product lines serving aerospace, defense, and space markets. This role involves full ownership of product line strategy and P&L performance, driving profitable growth, technology leadership, and long-term value creation.

Responsibilities

• Own full product line P&L accountability, delivering revenue growth, gross margin expansion, and operating income targets
• Define and execute global product line strategy aligned with business objectives and long-term market opportunities
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps, business plans, and go-to-market strategies for current and next-generation products
• Identify and evaluate growth opportunities across aerospace, defense, and space segments, including new applications and adjacencies
• Lead market, customer, and competitive intelligence to guide portfolio optimization and investment decisions
• Translate customer and market requirements into differentiated, ruggedized optical solutions in partnership with Engineering
• Actively manage the full product lifecycle, from concept through launch, production, and end-of-life decisions
• Partner with Sales and Marketing to develop product positioning, messaging, pricing strategies, and sales enablement tools
• Engage directly with key customers and strategic prospects, serving as the voice of the customer across the organization
• Lead, develop, and mentor a global PLM team while strengthening organizational capability and succession
• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve execution, operational alignment, and customer outcomes
• Support strategic initiatives, including partnerships, acquisitions, and other inorganic growth opportunities

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
• Experience owning and managing product line P&L responsibility
• Experience leading product management or product line teams in aerospace, defense, space, or other high-reliability markets
• Working knowledge of electrical and/or optical systems used in complex, mission-critical applications
• Ability to collaborate across Engineering, Sales, Operations, and Marketing to deliver business results
• Experience traveling domestically and internationally, up to 50%

Qualifications

• MBA and/or technical degree
• Experience with ruggedized fiber optic transceivers or optical communications technologies
• Demonstrated success developing and executing global product strategies and roadmaps
• Experience with value-based pricing and commercial strategy in engineered products
• Established customer relationships within aerospace, defense, or space markets
• Experience leading teams through growth, change, or integration following acquisitions

Skills

• Strategic thinking and planning
• Collaborative leadership
• Market analysis and intelligence
• Product development and management
• Customer engagement and relationship building
• Financial management and reporting

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid vacation/time off
• Education assistance
• Infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance

Pay

$90,000 - $150,000 per year

Schedule

Variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Equal opportunity employer
• E-Verify compliant