Optics Product Line Manager

Amphenol ICC; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401K matching

Paid holidays

Life insurance

Short/long-term disability

Job summary

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, is seeking an Optics Product Line Manager in Santa Clara, CA to lead CPO/NPO product strategy and drive design wins. This role partners with marketing, engineering and sales to rapidly grow the business and shape the roadmap.

The ideal candidate has a technical optics background, strong market insight, and a track record in product management or optical engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Optics, Electronics, or Engineering with keen business acumen.
• Fluent in English & Mandarin preferred.
• 3+ years of optical engineering experience, technical marketing, or project/product management experience.
• Technical knowledge of the optical industry and relevant standards.
• Good communication skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office; able to work with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Promote CPO/NPO products to field teams and customers; define positioning and target customers.
• Drive new business opportunities and develop sales/marketing tools.
• Coordinate pricing and market strategy with sales for key accounts.
• Conduct local customer visits and travel for training, factory visits, and negotiations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify market requirements and close opportunities.
• Work with design, development, and manufacturing to ensure timely product introductions.
• Monitor market trends and advise on product line positioning to stay ahead of competitors.
• Engage with customers on next-generation architecture and AI/transceiver demand.

Skills

English and Mandarin

Optical engineering experience

Technical marketing

Cross-functional collaboration

MS Office proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Optics, Electronics, or Engineering

Job description

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, is a world leader in interconnect solutions for Communications, Mobile, RF, Optics, and Commercial electronics markets. Amphenol Corporation is one of the world’s largest designers and manufacturers of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, antennas, sensors and sensor-based products and coaxial and high-speed specialty cable. ACS has an expansive global presence in research and development, manufacturing, and sales. We design and manufacture a wide range of innovative connectors as well as cable assemblies for diverse applications including server, storage, data center, mobile, RF, networking, industrial, business equipment, and automotive.

Position: Optics Product Line Manager

Location: Santa Clara, California

Amphenol High Speed Products Group is the market leader for high speed, high bandwidth electrical connectors for the Telecom/Datacom market (Mobile Networks, Storage, Servers, Routers, Switches, etc.). Our products help to enable the electronics revolution and remain a key enabler for all the major AI/ML customers globally. Our global headquarters are in Nashua, NH and we have design, sales and manufacturing locations globally. We are currently seeking an Optics Product Line Manager to join our team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Reporting to the Director of Product Marketing for Optical Solutions, the product manager will work with cross-functional teams that are charged with developing and marketing Amphenol's next generation CPO/NPO products. This role will be responsible for promoting our products to their assigned market, winning key new design opportunities and developing/executing the product strategies required to rapidly grow the business, both top and bottom line. The ideal candidate must beversatile, with a good blend of business acumen and technical savvy, and a quick learner with the ability to manage new responsibilities in a dynamic environment.

• Proactively present and promote the CPO/NPO product to help the field teams understand the positioning, benefits and target customers.
• Drive the new business opportunity funnel, helping sales and the business unit align the strategy and actions required to win each new opportunity; develop sales and marketing tools when required.
• Maximize share at key account(s) by coordinating pricing and market strategy with sales.
• Regular local customer visits, travel for training, factory visits and customer negotiations.
• Work closely with the field sales teams to identify requirements and market trends to facilitate new design wins
• Work with cross-functional teams (marketing, engineering, business development and operations) to proactively identify product and solution gaps and define market requirements to close the total available market space.
• Play the role of New Business Plan owner:
  • Involvement in NPD and Product Extension projects
  • NBO and Incremental track and management
  • Identify tier-one customers' potential business opportunity and lead to design win;
  • Working closely with customer engineer team to understand their Architecture and identify their demand for optical product type
• Work closely with design/development/production team on manufacture capability, requirements capacity, costing and quality of manufacturing service to ensure competitive new products are introduced timely to the market
• Keep abreast of the market situation (current condition and future trends) and contribute in the recommendation of product line positioning to be ahead of the competition.
• Communicate with customers regarding the next generation architecture; focus on AI and transceiver demand.
• Participate in optical standards groups within the industry

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Optics, Electronics, or Engineering Discipline with keen business acumen
• Fluent in both English & Mandarin preferred
• 3+ years of optical engineering experience, technical marketing, or project/product management experience;
• Technical knowledge of the optical industry and relevant standards
• Good communication skills, the ability to use Microsoft office (Excel and PowerPoint) proficiently, the ability to integrate with cross functional teams globally and a willingness to "roll up your sleeves" to get the job done

The base salary range for this position is $110,000 to $215,000. In determining rate of pay, Amphenol considers a variety of nondiscriminatory factors, including but not limited to geographic location, relevant industry experience, qualifications, skills, and education. It would be rare for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for a given role. Base salary is one facet of Amphenol's total rewards package which includes participation in our comprehensive benefits program with medical, dental, and vision benefits effective day 1, vacation, sick leave, personal days, paid holidays, life insurance, short/long term disability, and matching 401K.

Amphenol Corporation is proud of our reputation as an excellent employer. Our focus is to provide the highest level of support and responsiveness to both our employees and our customers, the world's largest technology companies. Amphenol Corporation offers the opportunity for career growth within a global organization. We believe that Amphenol Corporation is unique in that every employee, regardless of his or her position, has the ability to positively impact the business.

Amphenol is an “Equal Opportunity Employer” - Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin. For additional company information please visit our website at https://www.amphenol-cs.com/