Director of Product Management - High-Speed Interconnect & Datacenter Solutions

MaxLinear is seeking a Director of Product Management, High Speed Interconnect to join our growing team. In this role, you will focus on the following:

• Work with key partners, customers, and end users to drive adoption of MaxLinear solutions for their current generation deployments
• Drive product lifecycles and manage from inception to commercialization (feature roadmaps, product roadmaps, pricing, inward facing supply management)
• Develop and implement communications plans for customers and sales, demonstrating MaxLinear differentiation and value
• Develop and distribute supporting product documents (briefs, application guides, data sheets, BOMs, bulletins)
• Lead cross-functional meetings to track, manage, and communicate overall product management efforts
• Prepare monthly and quarterly forecasts for financial and supply management
• Contribute to annual corporate planning
• Train sales and support personnel to sell products to their customers effectively
• Work with Sales and Engineering to create and manage customer design wins, customer deployment schedules, and all critical factors affecting a successful product introduction
• Work with applications engineering to manage engineering priorities relating to product
• Create and maintain accurate forecasts for internal business planning
• Work with operations and planning teams to manage supply to meet customer needs
• Work with executive management to refine the product roadmap in response to customer product plans and competitive positioning and to periodically review and refresh business assumptions
• Travel as necessary

• Understanding of datacenter networks, including both at a system and component level
• Ability to listen and ‘sell’ product concepts and technologies internally and externally with a passion for technology.
• Track record of success leading aggressive, results-driven product management and product planning strategies and initiatives. This should include experience developing product roadmaps and extensive experience taking products from inception to commercialization, delivering on time, and the financial results targeted.
• Past success influencing opinions and actions of key stakeholders within their organization, customers, and partners
• Analytical and problem solving skills, including market research and data gathering, ability to think/conceptualize independently and creatively, strength in building and analyzing complex financial models, and excellent business judgment and ability to synthesize, analyze, and extract implications
• Solid communications skills, both oral and written, including experience creating and making highly effective presentations to senior management; strong organizational, project management, and execution skills and a demonstrated ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment and work effectively at all levels of an organization
• High-performance orientation, commitment to continuous improvement, excellent follow-through, and strategic but capable and willing to roll up their sleeves
• BS in Electrical Engineering or related + 13 years of experience, or MS + 11 years of experience, or Ph.D. + 8 years of experience

MaxLinear has a Total Compensation philosophy which includes base salary and annual discretionary bonus eligibility and many positions also include stock-based compensation.

MaxLinear expects to offer a starting base salary within the range of:  $135,700 to $218,500 Annually

We offer competitive benefits designed to support employee health, welfare, and retirement and some highlights are:  health care benefits, 401k savings plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), paid time off, and a hybrid work schedule.

The actual starting base salary will be determined by the match to certain role-related criteria such as educational degree(s) or equivalent, relevant work experience, skillset needed for the role, and geographic location; this is not an all-inclusive list as some roles may require unique skills or experience.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on race, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

MaxLinear is a global, NASDAQ-traded company (MXL) where the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. We are a fabless system-on-chip product company, striving to improve the world’s communication networks for everyone through our highly integrated radio-frequency (RF), analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for access and connectivity, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi-market applications.

We hire the best people in the industry and engage them in some of the most exciting opportunities that connect the world we live in today. Our growth has come from innovative, bold approaches to solving some of the world’s most challenging communication technology problems in the most efficient and effective manner.

MaxLinear began by developing the world’s first high-performance TV tuner chip using standard CMOS process technology. Others said we couldn’t achieve the extremely high-performance requirements using CMOS, but we proved them wrong and achieved enduring global market leadership with our designs. Since then, we’ve developed a full line of products that drive 4G and 5G infrastructure; enable data center, metro and long-haul optical interconnects; bring 10Gbit to the home; power the IoT revolution; and enable robust and reliable communication in harsh industrial environments. Over the years, we’ve expanded through organic growth and through several acquisitions that have perfectly complemented our existing portfolio and enabled us to deliver complete end-to-end solutions in our target markets. One such example was the acquisition of Intel’s Home Gateway Platform Division that added Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and Broadband Gateway Processor SoC technology to our connected home portfolio creating a complete and scalable platform of connectivity and access solutions to fully address our customers’ needs.

Our headquarters are in Carlsbad, near San Diego, California. We also have major design centers in Irvine and San Jose, California; Waltham, Massachusetts; Vancouver, Canada; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore and Chennai, India; Villach, Austria; Munich, Germany; Israel; and Singapore.

We have approximately 1,500 employees, a substantial majority of whom have engineering degrees and include masters and Ph.D. graduates from many of the premiere universities around the world. Our employees thrive on innovation, outstanding execution, outside-the-box thinking, nimbleness, and collaboration. Together, we form a high-energy business team that is focused on building the best and most innovative products on the market.