Lead, Advanced Materials & Photonics Product Manager

3M; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 222,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

3M is seeking a Senior Product Manager – Advanced Materials to own the EBO product lifecycle, translate strategy into actionable plans, and drive profitable, in-market performance. You will lead roadmap delivery, build business cases, and coordinate with R&D, supply chain, and customers to accelerate time to market.

You will translate voice of customer into requirements, guide qualification and launches, and shape pricing strategies and portfolio recommendations in a fast-moving optics space.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or a related technical or marketing field
• Five (5) years of product management experience in optical interconnects, photonics, semiconductors, or related data center hardware
• Five (5) years managing products through NPI or Stage-Gate processes

Responsibilities

• Own the advanced materials EBO product lifecycle and translate strategy into actionable plans that deliver profitable, in-market performance
• Lead product strategy, roadmap delivery, feature prioritization, and business-case development for next-generation expanded beam optics platforms serving co-packaged optics and high-power optical interconnect applications
• Translating voice of customer into product requirements, specifications, architecture choices, and development priorities, while guiding qualification, launch, sales enablement, and customer qualification planning
• Developing product business cases, forecasts, pricing strategies, and portfolio recommendations using financial analysis, market insight, and scenario planning
• Building technical credibility and coordinating across R&D, supply chain, manufacturing, commercial teams, customers, and ecosystem partners to accelerate time to market and customer adoption

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic planning

Financial analysis

Voice of customer

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Master’s degree in optics/photonics

Job description

3M is seeking a Senior Product Manager – Advanced Materials to own the EBO product lifecycle, translate strategy into actionable plans, and drive profitable, in-market performance. You will lead roadmap delivery, build business cases, and coordinate with R&D, supply chain, and customers to accelerate time to market.

You will translate voice of customer into requirements, guide qualification and launches, and shape pricing strategies and portfolio recommendations in a fast-moving optics space.