Product Management , Staff

Role

Product work

• Own product roadmaps and translate customer workflows, feedback, and emerging use cases into requirements and prioritized feature backlogs.
• Engage semiconductor companies, foundries, and research institutions to identify workflows, adoption blockers, and customer needs.
• Prioritize roadmap decisions with R&D, sales, applications engineering, and customer success input.
• Lead launches, defining release content, positioning, messaging, pricing and packaging recommendations, release content, and internal and external communications.
• Support go-to-market plans, sales enablement, webinars, conference presentations, and technical collateral with Product Marketing.
• Monitor competitors, industry trends, and ecosystem shifts to identify opportunities, partnerships, and investment areas.

Expected impact

• Shape tools used for datacom, optical interconnects, co-packaged optics, metalenses, LEDs, and quantum computing systems.
• Accelerate customer time-to-tapeout by addressing design, simulation, and verification workflow problems.
• Strengthen differentiated photonic design automation and influence R&D investment with data-backed roadmaps linked to market outcomes.
• Drive revenue growth through product positioning, pricing, and packaging aligned with customer value.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, optics, photonics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of relevant product management experience, or 3+ years with an advanced degree.
• Deep understanding of photonic design workflows and simulation methods such as FDTD, EME, or FEEM, with relevant customer use-case knowledge.
• Direct experience with OptoCompiler, Lumerical, or adjacent photonic design and simulation platforms.
• Ability to own roadmaps and balance customer impact, technical risk, competition, and business value.
• Strong technical communication skills and experience leading product launches, including positioning, messaging, pricing, packaging, and sales enablement.
• EDA, photonic design automation, optical simulation, or adjacent engineering software market experience is a strong plus.
• Willingness to travel occasionally for customer visits, conferences, and team meetings.

Working style

• Make decisions with incomplete information, manage multiple stakeholders and workstreams, and turn customer discovery into actionable product insights.
• Communicate effectively with technical teams and business leaders and keep customer needs, technical feasibility, and business outcomes aligned.

Team

Rewards and benefits

• Synopsys offers health, wellness, and financial benefits; the recruiter will provide details during hiring.