Director Product Line Management

Job Description

Renesas is seeking a Product Management Director or Sr. Director for its High-Performance System Power product line. These push the technology limits of speed, density, and efficiency and deliver power to the highest performance computing and connectivity functions.

Typical applications include Artificial Intelligence, High Performance Networking, and other High Performance Computing applications.

This role sits within our Performance Power Solutions business, which is one of the fastest-growing and exciting product lines at Renesas, with a multi-market scope and a large product development team.

This position can be located in any one of our main offices in the central or western US, preferably Austin, Dallas, or Phoenix.

We are looking for a leader to define and lead the team building out our product strategy and portfolio, to grow and expand the business, and manage the products throughout their lifecycles.

This role offers the opportunity to build a highly strategic and visible product portfolio working closely with the largest global Cloud Service Providers and CPU / GPU ecosystem enablers.

The scope of responsibilities include :

• Overall business leader for the product line, with P&L responsibility
• Defining a product line vision, strategy, portfolio and roadmap within the targeted application spaces
• Scaling and developing the business and engineering teams supporting the product line
• Preparing business plans for new product concepts and proposals
• Promoting new and existing products to the market
• Managing pricing and quotations for strategic opportunities
• Managing products throughout the entire product lifecycle

A successful candidate will be detail oriented, self-motivated, and work with a sense of urgency. The candidate must also possess excellent interpersonal skills and be able to lead and / or influence multi-disciplinary organizations such as Product Management, Applications Engineering, IC Development Engineering, and Field Sales.

Qualifications

This position has a broad range of responsibilities related to driving new product development and revenue growth :

• Recruit, hire and train product managers, product definers, and product applications engineering leaders and individual contributors
• Build, lead, and scale a global team supporting this product line
• Develop product and market strategy to grow each product family to a self-supporting and financially accretive profit center
• Prepare new product proposals and drive a healthy product roadmap, including market requirements and business plans for new products
• Provide prioritization on features, cost, and schedule trade-offs to product development teams as they develop and launch products
• Drive new product development activities, identifying critical issues and working with Applications Engineering, Design Engineering and Product Engineering to solve them;
• Provide timely responses to inquiries from customers and field teams regarding products, pricing, and other information;
• Work with the sales and business planning teams to drive to financial targets for the product line;
• Develop material for new product go to market activities including marketing campaigns, product promotion material, and other sales collateral;
• Develop and deliver training to the sales and FAE teams;
• Present Renesas solutions at industry conferences and trade shows; and
• Create journal articles, whitepapers, and other published material.

YOU ARE BEST EQUIPPED FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU ARE :

• Experienced in the field of power management IC design engineering, application engineering or product marketing;
• Have led product management functions and teams supporting $50M in annual revenues or more, or have started and scaled a product line to a similar level
• Strongly self-driven and self-motivated, and capable of taking full ownership of your activities;
• Comfortable with multi-tasking;
• A fast learner on new technologies, new applications, and new products;
• Comfortable presenting to audiences of different background;
• Capable of communicating with a broad audience;
• Can travel domestically and internationally as the business needs dictate, typically 30% with higher periods.

EDUCATION and / or EXPERIENCE

• BS degree in Engineering; MBA, MS or PhD a plus;
• Requires 15 years of professional experience as an application engineer, field application engineer, or marketing engineer in the semiconductor industry with experience in power management ICs

Company Description

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets.

Our robust product portfolio includes world leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products.

We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements : Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial.

Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values.

At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.