Senior Product Development Manager

Collaborate with innovative 3Mers around the world in a role that impacts both your professional and personal growth. This position offers the opportunity to transition from private, public, government, or military experience to a 3M career.

About the role

As the Senior Product Development Manager in 3M’s Display & Electronics Product Platform (DEPP) within the Semiconductor Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) business, you will play a key leadership role in defining product direction, advancing technology platforms, and strengthening organizational capability to support long-term business growth. This role requires strategic and technical leadership to build connections with CMP customers and ecosystem partners, translate market opportunities into development priorities, align cross-functional teams, and accelerate innovation from concept through commercialization.

Responsibilities

• Set product and technology direction for strategic CMP growth platforms, aligning innovation investments with business priorities, customer roadmaps, direct voice of customer, and semiconductor market trends.
• Lead strategic product development across the full innovation lifecycle, from opportunity identification and concept development through scale-up, commercialization, and portfolio expansion.
• Provide strong technical and people leadership by developing talent, mentoring scientists and engineers, setting clear priorities, and building a high-performing, accountable, and collaborative team culture.
• Apply deep semiconductor and CMP expertise to guide technical decisions, solve complex development challenges, and accelerate differentiated product performance.
• Leverage CMP experience to connect material science, process, application, and integration needs into practical product pipelines that create customer value.
• Lead cross-functional execution in partnership with portfolio leaders, sales, manufacturing, quality, and application engineers to support successful development, generation of data packages, and commercial impact.
• Build transformational technology platforms by collaborating with internal and external research partners, including Corporate Research Laboratory, academic institutes, and strategic business collaborators.
• Drive intellectual property development through invention, patent generation, and strategic external partnerships that strengthen competitive advantage.
• Establish and expand strategic partnerships across customers, suppliers, research institutions, and industry collaborators to enhance technical capability and accelerate innovation timelines.
• Influence business strategy through technical leadership by connecting customer needs, competitive dynamics, and emerging technology trends to actionable development roadmaps.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Science or Engineering (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution.
• Five (5) years or more of experience in product development, commercialization, product engineering, process development, program leadership, or technical project leadership in a private, public, government, or military environment.
• Seven (7) years or more of leadership experience in a technical environment, including people leadership, technical leadership, or leadership of complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Seven (7) years or more of experience in the semiconductor industry.
• Three (3) years of experience with Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP), including product development, process development, applications engineering, or hands-on CMP process work with a semiconductor (IC) manufacturer, CMP tool supplier, or tier-one materials supplier to semiconductor (IC) fabs.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in a Science or Engineering discipline from an accredited institution.
• Demonstrated track record of leading significant growth initiatives, platform development efforts, or major new product commercialization programs with meaningful business impact.
• Deep understanding of semiconductor manufacturing processes, specifically CMP-related materials, process interactions, and integration challenges.
• Hands-on experience with CMP process development, slurry or pad-related systems, defectivity, planarization performance, removal rate optimization, post-CMP considerations, and related metrology.
• Experience using design of experiments (DOE), statistical analysis, and data-driven methods to guide development decisions and optimize technical outcomes.
• Proven ability to lead through influence across matrixed organizations and align diverse stakeholders around strategic objectives.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to influence technical, commercial, and operational leaders.
• Success building organizational capability, coaching talent, and developing strong technical teams—experience managing global teams, particularly in Asia Pacific.
• Demonstrated ability to build and sustain productive internal and external networks that accelerate innovation and strengthen competitive advantage.
• Extensive experience interacting with semiconductor (IC) manufacturers related to product development and qualification initiatives.
• Ability to drive high-level strategy while ensuring resource allocation focus on priority projects.

Schedule

This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week in Maplewood, MN. Travel may include up to 20% domestic/international. Relocation may be authorized.

Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Pay

The expected compensation range for this position is $221,591 - $270,834, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. The specific compensation offered may vary based on factors including relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and experience.

Benefits

This position may be eligible for a range of benefits, including:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Disability Benefits
• Life Insurance
• Voluntary Benefits
• Paid Absences
• Retirement Benefits

Additional information is available at 3M Benefits.