Product Line Manager, Bay Area)
Molex
About the Role
As Product Line Manager for Burn-In Test Sockets and H-Pin, you will shape the strategy, growth, profitability, and lifecycle of products used in semiconductor reliability testing. You will connect customer and market needs with Engineering, Sales, Operations, Finance, and Marketing, translating knowledge into product decisions and commercial results. This role is designed for a contribution-motivated professional who is curious, collaborative, and eager to learn. Deep burn-in product expertise is not required on day one.
Key Responsibilities
- Product strategy and roadmap: Develop and execute the product-line strategy, annual plan, and roadmap using customer, market, technology, and financial insights.
- Customer and market insight: Learn how customers use burn-in sockets and H-Pin technology, identify unmet needs, monitor competitors, and translate findings into priorities.
- Commercial ownership: Support growth and profitability through pricing, margin review, forecasting, product positioning, and informed trade-off decisions.
- New product development: Partner with Engineering and customers to define requirements, assess opportunities, build business cases, establish target price and cost, and support product launches.
- Lifecycle management: Guide products from concept and launch through growth, maturity, and end of life, with thoughtful replacement planning.
- Go-to-market execution: Create clear value propositions, support sales tools and technical content, train commercial teams, and participate in customer meetings and industry events.
- Cross-functional leadership: Lead through influence across Sales, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Marketing, Quality, FAEs, and Customer Service.
- Pricing and systems: Help maintain accurate pricing, quoting, product, and customer information in tools such as Salesforce, ERP, and Excel.
- Continuous improvement: Identify ways to simplify work, improve customer experience, reduce cost, and strengthen product-team effectiveness.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Business, Marketing, or another related discipline; equivalent relevant experience will also be considered.
- Experience gained through employment, internships, co-op assignments, academic projects, research, technical sales, applications engineering, product management, pricing, marketing, or a related customer-facing role.
- Ability to interpret technical and commercial information and explain it clearly to different audiences.
- Experience using data to evaluate options, solve problems, or make recommendations.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to learn CRM, ERP, and product-management systems.
- Ability to travel up to 35% domestically and internationally.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Degree or experience in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field.
- Exposure to semiconductor manufacturing, test, reliability, connectors, interconnects, electronics, or another technical manufacturing environment.
- Experience with product management, product marketing, applications engineering, technical sales, pricing, financial analysis, or P&L drivers.
- Familiarity with burn-in or HTOL, test sockets, contact technologies, IC packaging, thermal management, or high-power devices.
- Experience working with Salesforce, an ERP platform such as Glovia, Power BI, project-management tools, or 3D CAD viewers.
- Demonstrated leadership through a student organization, project team, internship, co-op, volunteer role, or cross-functional business assignment.
Work Environment
- Hybrid or remote work arrangement, based on business needs and the final work location.
- Up to 35% domestic and international travel.
- Occasional handling of product samples or equipment; appropriate lifting support is provided where applicable.
- Fluent written and verbal English; additional language skills relevant to global markets are helpful.
- Responsibilities may evolve as business needs and individual comparative advantages develop.