Product Management Director - Renesas Electronics

Renesas is seeking a Product Management Director for its High Density Power Modules product families. These products 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 Computing Power 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. 

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

A successful candidate will be detail oriented, strong sense of ownership, self-motivated, and work with a sense of urgency. The candidate must also possess excellent interpersonal skills and be able to work well across various functional organizations such as Applications Engineering, Design Engineering, and Field Sales.

Can work Hybrid Setting. 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Recruit, hire and train product marketing engineers, product definers, and product applications engineering leaders and individual contributors.
• 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.
• Leading the business and applications engineering team supporting these product families.
• Defining a product strategy, portfolio and roadmap within the targeted application spaces.
• Drive execution requirements and oversee the product from concept to release to market.
• 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.

• BS degree in Engineering; MBA, MS or PhD a plus.
• Requires 8 to 12+ years of professional experience as an application engineer, field application engineer, or marketing engineer in the semiconductor industry with experience in power management ICs.
• Experienced in the field of power management IC design engineering, application engineering or product marketing, specifically in high-current/low-voltage DC/DC solutions powering high-performance processors.
• 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 approximately 2-3 days per month on average.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.  
 
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We remain agile and fearless as we accelerate our growth, encouraging everyone to play an active role with an entrepreneurial mindset and accountability.     
 
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing automotive, industrial, infrastructure, IoT, and sustainable products and solutions to meet our customers’ evolving needs and help people and communities thrive tomorrow.  

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from Day 1.    
   

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  
 

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.  

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.