Software Product Manager IV

Applied Materials; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 161,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Applied Materials is seeking a Product Manager for the Lab D&A team in Santa Clara, CA. This role is responsible for the strategy and delivery of digital solutions aimed at enhancing lab operations through automation and data integrity.

Qualified candidates should possess a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field and have over 10 years of experience in product management or enterprise systems. The role also offers a competitive salary between $161,000 and $221,000 depending on experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management, program management, or enterprise systems.
• Proven experience with lab automation systems and process workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and optimize complex business processes.

Responsibilities

• Define the product vision and roadmap for digital applications.
• Quantify and track product KPIs around automation and user adoption.
• Lead transition from legacy workflows to unified platforms.

Skills

Lab automation systems

Cloud-native architectures

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in computer science, engineering, or related field

Job description

Position Summary

The Product Manager in the Lab D&A team is responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of digital solutions for lab operations that drive automation, data integrity, and operational efficiency across labs. This role partners closely with solution architects, application development leads, and lab operations leadership, and chairs the product governance body to ensure alignment, prioritization, and change management for all released products and applications.

Compensation & Location

Salary: $161,000.00 - $221,000.00

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Key Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the product vision and multi-year roadmap for digital applications for lab operations, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and lab operational goals.
• Quantify and track product KPIs around automation, data integrity, cycle time, and user adoption.
• Lead the transition from fragmented legacy workflows to unified, scalable platforms, collaborating with architects and engineering.
• Chair the decision-making body for change management and project prioritization, ensuring structured governance and recurring reviews of submitted product change requests.
• Approve, hold, or cancel projects entering the change management process, set priorities, and maintain the health of the change request pipeline and associated metrics.
• Act as the escalation point for unresolved issues before senior management involvement.
• Lead discovery with BU stakeholders, LabOps, GIS, and other partners to design business-specific workflows and hardware/process execution capabilities.
• Analyze, optimize, and document end-to-end processes to drive operational efficiency and support organizational goals.
• Facilitate MVP scoping, governance for upgrades, and new features; define clear problem statements, success metrics, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams (engineering, QA, DevOps, design, product operations) to deliver high-quality releases on time; maintain clear release notes.
• Lead readiness with GIS, AIx, and BU teams, including training plans and rollout communications for lab applications.
• Drive training and adoption programs across user communities; capture feedback to inform backlog prioritization and roadmap iteration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years in product management, program management, enterprise systems, or related fields with progressive responsibility.
• Proven experience with lab automation systems; familiarity with lab operations and process/metrology workflows.
• Expertise collaborating on cloud-native architectures (Azure/AWS/GCP), microservices, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze, optimize, and document complex business processes with strong stakeholder engagement across BU, GIS, and LabOps.

Key Interfaces

• Solution Architect, Application Development Lead, Lab Operations leadership, BU stakeholders, GIS, AIx, QA, DevOps, Design, Training/Enablement

Additional Information

• Time Type: Full time
• Employee Type: Assignee / Regular
• Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
• Relocation Eligible: Yes

Benefits

We offer comprehensive benefits that support health, wellbeing, and professional growth.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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