Senior Director, Software PM – Semiconductors & Datacenter

SiFive, Inc.; Oregon; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement plans

Paid time off

Equity opportunities

Job summary

SiFive, Inc. is seeking a technically strong Sr Director of Software Product Management to define and drive the software products and developer experiences enabling deployment of our semiconductor IP for the datacenter compute portfolio.

You will translate needs from hyperscalars, chip designers, software developers, system architects, end customers and the open source community into a cohesive software strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant engineering field.
• Proven experience owning software products for semiconductors, embedded systems, or datacenter infrastructure.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for software products supporting our semiconductor IP portfolio for our datacenter compute portfolio of products.
• Define requirements for SDKs, toolchains, compilers, debuggers, simulators, firmware, board-support packages, drivers, middleware, operating-system enablement, and developer tools.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer workflows, including IP evaluation, SoC integration, software porting, bring-up, validation, performance optimization, and production deployment.
• Engage directly with customers, partners, and software developers to identify pain points, validate product concepts, and prioritize improvements.
• Translate customer and ecosystem requirements into clear product requirements, user stories, release plans, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with software, hardware, architecture, applications, and quality teams to deliver integrated hardware-software capabilities.
• Own software release planning and coordinate dependencies across product lines, silicon milestones, reference platforms, and customer programs.
• Define developer experience goals, including documentation quality, examples, APIs, installation workflows, support processes, and time to first success.
• Establish product metrics such as adoption, active users, build success, issue resolution time, software quality, release predictability, and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with open-source communities, operating-system projects, toolchain maintainers, cloud providers, and other ecosystem partners where appropriate.
• Develop product positioning, competitive differentiation, technical messaging, demonstrations, enablement materials, and launch plans.
• Support strategic customer engagements, design wins, evaluations, and production programs.
• Communicate roadmap decisions, trade-offs, risks, and priorities to executive, technical, and commercial stakeholders.

Skills

Software product management

Leadership in product teams

Embedded systems

Firmware development knowledge

Silicon development lifecycle

Developer tools (SDKs, APIs)

Cloud/hyperscale experience

Software licensing / pricing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

Master's degree or MBA preferred

Tools

SDKs

Toolchains

Compilers

Debuggers

Job description

SiFive, Inc. is seeking a technically strong Sr Director of Software Product Management to define and drive the software products and developer experiences enabling deployment of our semiconductor IP for the datacenter compute portfolio.

You will translate needs from hyperscalars, chip designers, software developers, system architects, end customers and the open source community into a cohesive software strategy.