Senior Product Line Manager
Role Overview
Amphenol High Speed Products Group seeks a Senior Product Line Manager - High Speed I/O Connectors.
The role owns strategy, growth, and execution for a strategically important portfolio serving hyperscale data center, AI/ML, networking, server, and storage customers.
The manager translates customer and technology roadmaps into product strategy, investment priorities, and profitable growth, working with global customers and senior internal leaders.
Key Skills for This Role
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Company overview
Amphenol Communications Solutions designs and manufactures interconnect solutions, connectors, cable assemblies, antennas, sensors, and related products for technology markets.
Its products serve applications including server, storage, data center, mobile, RF, networking, industrial, business equipment, and automotive.
Position summary
Amphenol High Speed Products Group seeks a Senior Product Line Manager - High Speed I/O Connectors.
The role owns strategy, growth, and execution for a strategically important portfolio serving hyperscale data center, AI/ML, networking, server, and storage customers.
The manager translates customer and technology roadmaps into product strategy, investment priorities, and profitable growth, working with global customers and senior internal leaders.
Key responsibilities
- Own global strategy, roadmap, and business performance for assigned High Speed I/O product platforms.
- Develop multi-year growth plans based on customer roadmaps, market trends, competitive dynamics, and emerging technologies.
- Lead strategic customer engagement to identify future requirements and secure key design wins.
- Prioritize the NBO pipeline and align Engineering, Sales, and Operations around high-value opportunities.
- Own revenue, forecast, pricing, margin, and profitability performance for the portfolio.
- Build TAM/SAM, competitive-share, and customer-penetration market models.
- Lead business cases for CapEx, NRE, capacity expansion, vertical integration, and new-product investments.
- Partner with Engineering to define next-generation product requirements and prioritize development resources.
- Partner with Operations and Supply Chain on manufacturing strategy, capacity, dual sourcing, and supply continuity.
- Lead product lifecycle decisions, including new-product introduction, product extensions, cost-down initiatives, and portfolio rationalization.
- Monitor competitive and technology trends and recommend actions to strengthen market position.
- Act as the product-line subject matter expert, mentor junior product managers, and improve product-management processes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field; technical degree strongly preferred.
- 7–10+ years of relevant experience in product management, engineering, technical business development, strategy, or commercial leadership.
- Demonstrated experience managing technically complex products or product portfolios.
- High-speed connectors/interconnects, data center hardware, networking, semiconductor, or related electronic systems experience is strongly preferred.
- Ability to develop product strategy, market models, financial business cases, and investment recommendations.
- Direct experience with large OEM, hyperscale, ODM/JDM, or technology customers is preferred.
- Strong commercial judgment, including pricing, negotiation, margin management, and business-case development.
- Able to understand complex technical concepts and connect technology decisions to customer and business outcomes.
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills; able to lead cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority.
- Able to work effectively in a fast-moving global organization with significant ambiguity.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally (20–35%); MBA preferred but not required.
Success measures
Establish a clear multi-year product strategy aligned with customer roadmaps and market transitions.
Grow strategic design wins, revenue, margin, and market share.
Prioritize major investments and cross-functional resources with discipline.
Build executive and customer credibility and lead complex business and technical decisions.
Develop junior product-management talent and improve operating discipline across the portfolio.
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