Coherent Corp. is looking to grow and improve profitability for its managed products by hiring a Product Manager who can drive revenue, market share, and financial performance through strategic product management, sales support, and lifecycle management.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of optical interconnects, silicon photonics, packaging technologies, and data center architectures
- Direct exposure to Co-Packaged Optics, pluggable transceivers, or related optical components.
- Familiarity with hyperscaler and switch/ASIC vendor ecosystems.
- Experience in managing partnerships with foundries, packaging houses, and contract manufacturers.
- Knowledge and understanding of financial instruments: P&L, balance sheet, income statement
- In depth understanding of the value proposition in existing and new market segments
- Development of product roadmaps
Responsibilities
- Drive revenue and gross margin for the business
- Monitor sales and backlogs
- Participate in annual budgeting and 5-year planning. Help set revenue and profitability targets to support the 5 Year Plan
- Review financial and shipping results and monitor monthly taking action as required
- Monitor and maximize Rev, gross margins and BOP
- Initiate, drive and monitor costs reduction activities
- Help with business case preparations of R&D investments and CapEx investments. Project 5 year investment roadmap on R&D investments for your products
Other
- Travel up to 40% is anticipated.
- BA or BS in Engineering required. MBA or MS/PhD in Engineering strongly preferred
- 10+ years of experience in Product Management/Engineering Leadership roles in the materials or related industry
- The ideal candidate will have significant business experience (Product Management, Engineering, Operations Management, R&D and/or Product Marketing) in a technical environment combined with and a track record of success
- Ability to easily and successfully work with employees and customers in a multi-cultural, global team environment
