Director Product Innovation Labs Flex Milpitas

Job Description: • 2-minute read •
The Innovation Labs is seeking a Sr. Director, Product Management to join our team with the responsibility for driving design and development for our Innovation Labs projects. Projects supporting small start-up companies, market specific projects and internal innovation projects. As a member of the product team this individual will take a leadership role in understanding the market product requirements and working with a cross-functional team to propose design solutions, help customer’s synthesize benefit and feature tradeoffs and work with development engineering to bring to market key and ground breaking new technology products.

A key aspect of this position will be communication and interfacing with customers and engineers from various design teams based globally and through third parties to deliver an optimized and world-class solution. Some travel may be required to provide synthesis, conceptualization, expertise and input to best practices and determining key requirements. As a member of a unique product development team, this individual will play a key role in understanding markets and product requirements to drive development and implementation of robust and effective designs to support delivery of quality products. In this role, you will leverage your experience and strategic marketing skills to accumulate detailed market information and requirements, articulating target market product direction and requirements and reviewing and revising product development plans with key internal partners. You will work with peer organizations, driving understanding of key cost targets, feature sets, business case forecasts, ROI, specifications, and will communicate product vision and direction through well written and concise market and product requirement documents.
Through technology and market segmentation and analysis you will communicate market sizes, market share, trends and forecasts and make recommendations for relevant products
Identify growth opportunities early in the business cycle, using a broad variety of information sources
Development clear and well documented communication and strategy materials on market, capability and customer presentations
Establish market and competitive information and identify how our products perform from a competitive perspective: evaluating performance, stability, security, costs, competitive feature sets and technical breadth
Work with Architects and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to create technology roadmaps by synthesizing data from a variety of sources including our technology partners, identifying the short-term and long-term technology trends and drivers
Drive through influence and creativity, a world-class product development team, which embodies the philosophy and goals of the Innovation Labs organization
Work closely with the team to help drive product portfolio planning and product prioritization activities with accurate and clear budget and resource planning models

REQUIRED Basic Qualifications:
12+ years of relevant work experience in a product management leadership role
Demonstrated ability as a successful technical product manager where products are delivered on tight delivery cycles
Must have taken a number of products from initial concept through development, launch, and end-of-life
Candidate must have an outstanding reputation for on-time and on-budget product deliveries in electronics products
Demonstrated product and market leadership and great verbal and written communication skills

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