Director of Product Line Manager, Wireless Infrastructure

Company: MaxLinear, Inc.
Location: Irvine
Posted on: October 17, 2020

Job Description:

Responsibilities MaxLinear is seeking a Director of Product Line Manager for Wireless Infrastructure to join our team in Carlsbad, CA or in Irvine, CA. In this role you will manage a segment of the wireless business. Write Marketing Requirements Documents (MRD?s) and work with engineering teams to define optimal set of features and performance targets Create and deliver customer presentations and business proposals Author datasheets and appropriate product documentation intended for customers Create in-depth competitive analysis, including comparison of performance specifications, features, pricing and roadmaps Train sales and support personnel to effectively sell product to their customers Track competitor announcements & partnerships Leverage primary and secondary research tools to build a market model for target markets Contribute to building the business case for new products Create collateral and perform global sales product trainings Draft outbound marketing communications and trade-show schedules Work with Sales and Engineering departments 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 In collaboration with Program Management, maintain all schedules communicated to customers including demonstrations, engineering samples, and production ramp commitments and manage tradeoffs of schedule and features Collaborate with relevant standards groups and develop advocacy strategy to support products 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 Work with Operations and Finance to manage the standard cost and yield model Ability to travel up to approximately 40% of the time internationally Qualifications Strong understanding of wireless infrastructure semiconductor technologies and network trends Ability to understand customer needs and pain points and translate that into products with appropriate tradeoffs Skilled at matching products to company core competency to create differentiated products Excellent ability to listen and ?sell? product concepts and technologies internally and externally Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint Passion for technology Flexibility to contribute meaningfully in role as team member and/or individual contributor Bachelor?s degree Electrical Engineering or related field required (MBA desired) and 12 years of relevant work experience plus 3 years in product management Company Overview MaxLinear is a global, New York Stock Exchange-traded company (NYSE: 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; Vancouver, Canada; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore, 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. MON

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