Director, Product Management — Custom & Analog Design Solutions

Cadence Design Systems; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 178,500 - 331,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Medical benefits

401(k) match

Job summary

Cadence Design Systems in California seeks a Director of Product Management for the Custom & PCB Group to own the strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market for a major product line in analog design.

You will build deep, credible relationships with senior designers, define multi-year roadmaps, pricing and packaging, and drive adoption and revenue across strategic accounts. Lead a PM team, collaborate with R&D, sales and marketing, and report to executives on metrics that matter.

Qualifications

• Hands-on understanding of analog and mixed-signal circuit design and challenges.
• Ability to communicate credibly with expert analog circuit designers.
• Experience in product management, marketing, or product-line ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market for the product line.
• Build deep relationships with senior designers and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Define pricing, packaging, and licensing; drive adoption and revenue.
• Lead a PM team; align R&D, sales, and marketing around a single plan.
• Monitor market trends and competitive moves to inform decisions.

Skills

Analog/mixed-signal design

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Product management

Roadmap ownership

Pricing & packaging

EDA/semiconductor domain knowledge

Education

BS or MS in Electrical Engineering

MSEE with analog/mixed-signal specialization

MBA or equivalent commercial experience

Tools

Virtuoso

Job description

Director, Product Management — Custom & PCB Group (CPG)

We are hiring a Director of Product Management to own the strategy, roadmap, and go‑to‑market for a product line within CPG’s custom and analog design portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage and influence expert practitioners. Build deep, credible relationships with senior analog and custom circuit designers and their leadership; understand their design challenges first‑hand, and earn the technical trust needed to shift entrenched methodologies and drive adoption of Cadence solutions.
• Own the product. Set the vision, strategy, multi‑year roadmap, detailed requirements, and release priorities for your product line, grounded in direct customer and market feedback from analog design teams.
• Go‑to‑market. Own positioning, messaging, and technical value narrative; articulate like analog designers respect how the product improves their productivity and time‑to‑results, and equip sales and field teams to carry that story.
• Drive adoption & revenue. Lead key customer engagements and business‑development activity; convert skeptical, high‑expertise design teams into active users and advocates, and grow adoption and revenue across strategic accounts.
• Pricing & packaging. Define how the product is packaged, priced, and licensed, partnering with commercial and deal‑desk teams on terms that win and scale.
• Competitive & market intelligence. Continuously monitor the analog, mixed‑signal, and broader semiconductor design landscape; translate trends and competitive moves into product and positioning decisions.
• Cross‑functional leadership. Align R&D, sales, marketing, and other stakeholders around a single coherent plan, and represent the product in executive, analyst, partner, and customer forums.
• Build the team. As the product scales, hire, coach, and develop product managers—leading by context, not control—and instill rigorous product discovery and delivery practices.
• Measure what matters. Define and track the success metrics for the product line: adoption and active usage, customer productivity impact, pipeline, and revenue.

Required Qualifications

• Deep, hands‑on understanding of analog and mixed‑signal circuit design—circuit topologies, device‑level design, sizing and biasing, layout and parasitics, PVT and corner behavior, and verification methodology—and a first‑hand grasp of the real challenges analog teams face (long design cycles, designer ramp‑up, layout closure, cross‑node migration).
• Proven ability to communicate credibly with and influence expert analog circuit design engineers—the technical depth and presence to be taken seriously by senior designers, and the persuasive skill to change how experienced practitioners work.
• 10+ years in the semiconductor / EDA industry, including 5+ years in product management, product marketing, or product‑line ownership.
• Demonstrated ownership of a product or product line—roadmap, requirements, pricing/packaging, and go‑to‑market—with accountability for adoption and revenue.
• Strong executive‑communication skills and the ability to lead by influence across R&D, sales, and marketing.
• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or a related field; MSEE with an analog / mixed‑signal specialization strongly preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands‑on analog or mixed‑signal circuit design experience earlier in your career—you have designed, simulated, and/or laid out analog circuits yourself and can engage designers from lived experience.
• Familiarity with the Virtuoso custom/analog ecosystem and the broader custom IC design flow.
• Experience with AI/ML‑assisted design tools and modern design‑productivity approaches.
• Experience with EDA or software commercial models (subscription, term, consumption‑based licensing).
• Prior people‑management experience building and coaching a product management team.
• MBA or equivalent commercial experience is a plus.

Salary and Benefits

The annual salary range for California is $178,500 to $331,500. You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus, equity, and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive OTE incentive compensation structure.

Benefits include paid vacation and paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, medical, dental, and vision plan options, and more.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Cadence is committed to equal employment opportunity throughout all levels of the organization.

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