Product Line Manager

Xsight Labs; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Xsight Labs in San Jose, California, is seeking a Product Management leader to define and drive its product portfolio across diverse market segments such as cloud service providers and enterprises. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and excel in cross-functional collaboration.

This role facilitates both product lifecycle management and team building, ensuring alignment with market needs. Join us at Xsight Labs to influence the future of high-performance networking solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10+ years relevant experience in the semiconductor market.
• Strong understanding of DPU/SmartNIC trends.
• Direct customer interaction experience is essential.

Responsibilities

• Drive product direction and roadmap for Xsight’s DPU and products.
• Develop market and customer business plans.
• Collaborate with engineering and marketing teams.

Skills

Data-center networking understanding

Customer service-oriented mindset

Communication skills

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

MBA preferred

Tools

Linux

DASH

SPDK

Cloud Native technologies

Job description

Xsight Labs is a leading fabless semiconductor company delivering end-to-end connectivity solutions for cloud service providers, hyperscale data center networks and edge applications. As a result of Xsight’s industry leading products and technology we are turning heads in the industry and looking to grow our team.

Xsight’s E1 DPU is the world’s first 800G DPU, built around a many-core on-path CPU fabric and hardware accelerators. Together with a standards-based SW development model, this architecture delivers industry-leading performance while offering greater ease-of-programmability compared to traditional DPUs.

The company’s X2 family of fully programmable data center switches, ranging from 3.2T to 12.8T, provide application-optimized switching for top-of-rack deployments, data center fabrics, high-performance computing (HPC), and AI/ML clusters.

Together, these products accelerate the high-performance network solutions of tomorrow.

Job Description:

As a Product Management leader (PLM, Director, or Sr. Director level), you will own and play a hands-on role in defining and driving Xsight’s product portfolio. In this role you will identify business opportunities across a breadth of market segments from hyper-scalers, to cloud service providers, to OEMs, to ecosystem partners, as well as enterprise, government and public sector customers. This individual is specifically responsible for owning the lifecycle management of the product portfolio. Over time, this individual may also build and lead a team of Product Managers. This is a dynamic role, where day to day activities will change driven by the diversity of markets.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Drive product direction and roadmap for either Xsight’s DPU, programmable switches and/or software portfolio. As a PLM you are a mini-CEO that owns the total success of your products.
• Develop TAM/SAM/SOM market and customer forecasts
• Define market and product requirements for next generation products
• Collaboratively work with Xsight’s engineering teams to ensure products delivered align to market requirements.
• Develop a portfolio of ecosystem partners that will accelerate broad adoption of Xsight’s product portfolio
• Collaboratively work with Xsight’s business development, sales, and marketing teams to develop Go-To-Market plans and drive customer engagements.
• Develop, and present, sales and marketing collateral to best position Xsight’s portfolio into the target markets
• Create market and customer business plans to drive product direction, Go-To-Market initiatives, and partnership activities.
• Profile market segments and target customers creating strategic plans, playbooks and overall messaging
• Develop sales training presentations to educate the teams on product positioning and capabilities
• Bring product and solution technical knowledge into customer meetings.
• Cross-functional communication with Marketing, Sales and R&D.

Qualifications:

• B.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related discipline; additional MBA preferred.
• Minium of 10+ years relevant experience in the semiconductor marekt; 15+ years preferred.
• Strong understanding of data-center networking, DPU/SmartNIC trends including specific experience with programable architectures.
• Solid knowledge of fundamental technologies such as Ethernet networking, storage, and data center infrastructure and specifically in the semiconductor market. Current knowledge of AI learning and Inference architectures and the differences of Edge, Frontend, Backend and Silicon Photonics is a big plus.
• Familiarity with high-performance data center technologies including RDMA, DPDK, SPDK, NVMe, Cloud Native, Linux, SONiC, DASH and P4.
• Strong business acumen and ability to identify key customer needs and requirements.
• Leader that can work across diverse, and global teams, to deliver upon strategic goals with limited direction.
• Direct customer interaction experience, face to face and remote.
• Customer service-oriented mindset and strong communication skills, including fluency in English (written and verbal) and good listening skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team. Xsight is a collaborative team oriented environment and, regardless of level, everyone at Xsight is an individual contributor that contributes to the greater success of the company.
• Energized by a dynamic and demanding start-up environment bringing a positive mental attitude.