Koch Industries

Global Product Manager

Koch Industries$130K — $150K *
Lisle, IL 60532In-Person
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing or relevant field.
  • 6+ years of experience in the Datacom Market.
  • 4+ years of sales experience with Datacom accounts.
  • Previous experience as a Product Manager or Product Design Engineer focusing on high-speed interconnects.
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex projects.

Responsibilities

  • Lead product strategy development and execution for hyperscale customers.
  • Own the full product lifecycle from requirement definition to product launch.
  • Maintain relationships with customers' engineering teams and conduct market analysis.
  • Drive marketing strategies and create sales enablement materials.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to ensure alignment and successful product execution.
  • Mentor project teams, manage risks, and uphold project schedules.
  • Track product performance and recommend necessary enhancements.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance, ADD, and disability benefits.
  • Retirement plan options and paid time off.
  • Educational assistance and possibly infertility and parental leave support.
Full Job Description
Your Job

Molex is hiring an experienced Global Product Manager to support our High-Speed Backplane, NPC products within our Enterprise segment. This role is pivotal to shaping data center and enterprise networking technologies at 112G and 224G+ silicon protocol speeds.

This person will own the product line and work with global customers, partners, and internal business partners to ensure that we develop and manage existing products to achieve sustainable revenue/margin growth and best return of investments. This role has a global reach and will work closely with big data and hyperscale customers, sales, and engineering teams to meet our customers' needs by providing high-tech leading-edge technologies that are critical for the data superhighways existence in an ever-changing world. You will also ensure that the product and marketing efforts are tailored to support Molex's overall mission, strategy, and goals. Success in this role means becoming the trusted "go-to" contact for key customers and appropriately planning and seeing assignments through to completion with minimal direction, providing leadership to other team members, presenting technical information, meeting project schedules, managing risks, closing business with customers, and achieving profitable growth for the organization.

What You Will Do
  • Lead the development and execution product strategy for global hyperscale customers, including roadmap, pricing, positioning, and portfolio management.
  • Own the full product lifecycle: define requirements from customer feedback, market trends, and technical advancements; drive on-time, on-budget product launches.
  • Build and maintain trusted relationships with customer's Engineering teams, conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify new growth opportunities, emerging trends, and technology gaps.
  • Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify new growth opportunities, emerging trends, and technology gaps.
  • Drive go-to-market strategies, including sales enablement and marketing collateral development, to promote new technologies and expand market penetration.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams including Product Design Engineering, Signal Integrity, DFM, Manufacturing, Quality, Sales, and Program Management to ensure alignment and successful execution.
  • Lead and mentor project teams by setting clear goals, managing risks, resolving issues, and adhering to project schedules.
  • Develop business cases and secure leadership buy-in for new product development and capacity expansions aligned with customers and broader data communications market needs.
  • Track product performance and market shifts, recommending product enhancements or portfolio adjustments to sustain competitive advantage and profitable growth.
  • Represent Molex externally by visiting customer sites, global manufacturing locations, and participating in industry forums as needed.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing or comparable experience in the field.
  • Previous experience as a Product Manager, Sales, Product Design Engineer or similar role, with a focus on high-speed interconnect products in the data center or enterprise networking industries.
  • A minimum of 6+ years of experience within the Datacom Market.
  • A minimum of 4+ years of sales experience calling on Datacom accounts.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams and influence without direct authority, driving complex projects with minimal oversight in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Willingness and ability to travel globally as required.


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Master's degree in technical or business discipline.
  • Experience negotiating and working with contract manufacturers and electronics market OEMs.
  • Understanding silicon protocols and experience of high speeds such as 112g and 224g.
  • Knowledge of business dynamics and vendor relationships in the hyperscale market, especially managing partnerships with chip vendors.
  • Hands-on experience with SAP.


For this role, we anticipate paying $130,000 - $150,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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