Sr. Principal Product Management – Software and Digital Platforms

About the role

Principal/Sr. Principal Product Manager for Software and Digital Platforms (SDP) at Analog Devices, a global semiconductor leader. The role is a senior individual contributor responsible for defining products, translating market and business needs into executable requirements, and driving alignment across business units, engineering, and program teams. Serves as a technical and commercial bridge between vertical end‑market teams and the software, digital, and AI development teams.

Key Product Management Responsibilities

• Partner with business unit marketing, engineering teams, and customers to translate business needs for software, digital, and AI into stakeholder product requirements, focusing on the “what” and “why”.
• Define product scope, use cases, feature priorities, and requirements for software and digital platform offerings, ensuring they are technically sound, validated, traceable, and verifiable.
• Work closely with software, embedded, systems, and hardware engineering teams to refine requirements, resolve trade‑offs, and ensure products are architected for usability, scalability, and reuse across multiple markets.
• Contribute to roadmap planning and prioritization for software‑enabled products and platform capabilities, balancing customer demand, strategic value, technical feasibility, and resource constraints.
• Develop business cases and support project scoping, including assessment of development effort, cost considerations, lifecycle implications, and long‑term platform reuse opportunities.
• Clarify the product lifecycle from concept through launch, support, and end‑of‑life, ensuring clear plans for release readiness, sustaining needs, and customer adoption.
• Engage directly with customers and internal stakeholders to gather insights, evaluate product fit, and shape product direction based on application needs, feedback, and competitive dynamics.
• Partner with program management and development teams during quarterly planning and execution cycles to provide clear priorities, decision support, and visibility to roadmap changes, risks, and dependencies.
• Influence platform strategy by identifying opportunities to standardize software components, improve developer experience, and expand reusability of embedded software and digital assets across product lines.
• Collaborate with vertical business unit applications, marketing, and enablement teams to ensure product requirements, positioning, documentation, and customer‑facing collateral accurately reflect the intended value proposition and technical capabilities.
• Support go‑to‑market readiness by aligning product documentation, evaluation platforms, and customer‑facing collateral with roadmap commitments and launch objectives.
• Help drive issue resolution and prioritization across development, applications, and support teams throughout the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related technical field; advanced degree or MBA is a plus.
• 10+ years of experience in product management, systems engineering, applications engineering, or a related role supporting embedded products.
• Demonstrated experience managing or defining products that include embedded software, firmware, or software‑enabled hardware platforms.
• Hands‑on understanding of embedded software development practices, software lifecycle considerations, and the interaction between firmware, drivers, middleware, hardware, and end applications.
• Experience translating customer and market needs into detailed product requirements and driving cross‑functional alignment through execution.
• Strong technical and business judgment, including the ability to assess product trade‑offs, prioritize features, and contribute to business case development.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to influence engineering, business, and customer teams without direct authority.
• Understanding of competitive dynamics, customer workflows, and software platform trends in embedded and digital product environments.
• Eligibility for export licensing review if not a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

Compensation

The expected wage range for a new hire is $184,030 to $266,485, with actual wage dependent on location, experience, education, training, market data, internal pay equity, or other bona fide factors. This position qualifies for a discretionary performance‑based bonus based on personal and company factors.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Other benefits

Schedule and Travel

• Shift type: 1st Shift / Days
• Required travel: approximately 25% of the time