Sr Director, SW Product Management

SiFive India; Oregon; On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The role translates hyperscale and customer needs into a coherent software strategy, working across product management, engineering, applications, sales, and external ecosystem partners to enable easy evaluation, integration, and deployment of our IP in production systems.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or related field; master's degree or MBA preferred.
• At least 10 years in product management, strategy, or technical program leadership, with 5+ years in a senior leadership role.
• Proven experience owning software products for semiconductors, embedded systems, or datacenter infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for software products in our datacenter compute portfolio.
• Define requirements for SDKs, toolchains, compilers, debuggers, simulators, firmware, drivers, and developer tools.
• Translate customer needs into clear product requirements, user stories, release plans, and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, architecture, applications, and QA teams to deliver integrated hw-sw capabilities.
• Coordinate software release planning and dependencies across product lines and silicon milestones.

Skills

Product management

Customer engagement

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Eng./CS/EE

Tools

SDKs

Toolchains

Compilers

Job description

About SiFive

As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of compute by bringing the limitless potential of RISC-V to the highest performance and most data-intensive applications in the world. SiFive's unrivaled compute platforms are continuing to enable leading technology companies around the world to innovate, optimize and deliver the most advanced solutions of tomorrow across every market segment of chip design, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive, data center, mobile, and consumer. With SiFive, the future of RISC-V has no limits.

At SiFive, we are always excited to connect with talented individuals, who are just as passionate about driving innovation and changing the world as we are.

Our constant innovation and ongoing success is down to our amazing teams of incredibly talented people, who collaborate and support each other to come up with truly groundbreaking ideas and solutions. Solutions that will have a huge impact on people's lives; making the world a better place, one processor at a time.

Are you ready? To learn more about SiFive's phenomenal success and to see why we have won the GSA's prestigious Most Respected Private Company Award (for the fourth time!), check out our website and Glassdoor pages.

Job Description

We are seeking a technically strong Sr Directorr of Software Product Management to define and drive the software products and developer experiences that enable customers to successfully deploy our semiconductor IP for our datacenter compute product portfolio.

This role is responsible for translating the needs of hyperscalars, chip designers, software developers, system architects, end customers and the open source community into a coherent software strategy.

You will work across product management, architecture, engineering, applications, sales, marketing, and external ecosystem partners to make our IP easy to evaluate, integrate, program, validate, and deploy in production systems.

The ideal candidate understands both software development, Customer deployment needs and semiconductor development cycles. You can discuss developer workflows and APIs with software teams, while also understanding how firmware, toolchains, operating systems, hardware features, and silicon schedules interact.

This person will:

• 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.

A successful candidate will have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree or MBA preferred.
• At least 10 years of product management, product strategy, or technical program leadership experience, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience owning software products for semiconductors, embedded systems, or datacenter infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of software development for embedded or systems-level platforms, including firmware, BSPs, device drivers, operating system enablement, or compiler toolchains.
• Proven record of defining and shipping developer-facing products such as SDKs, APIs, or developer tools, and of growing