Job Details:Job Description:About the RoleThe Product Planning Group plays a key role in partnering and influencing strategic deliverables throughout the organization.
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Lead Product Planner role requires a combination of technical expertise, business acumen, organizational understanding and networking capabilities. The Product Planning runs certain strategic processes, visits customers, collaborates with Sales, the Business Management group, Architects and influences the organization via these processes. Activities include driving planning processes, competitive analysis, market analysis, and participating in strategic task forces. This specific role of Lead Product Planner will focus on leading planning activities for next generation device of product family
Key Responsibilities:- Lead definition and planning activities for next generation Altera FPGA or product family
- Own roadmap for one of the future devices or product families, including prioritization, customer validation and communication of the roadmap both within and outside of Altera
- Lead cross functional team responsible for establishing and maintaining the Plan of Record for one of the future families. The team includes Planners, Architects, Engineering, Marketing, and Applications Engineering to drive your product from concept through mass production.
- Lead, participate and contribute into corresponding leadership teams and represent Product Planning in relevant forums
- Understand system level architecture, gather customer and Altera business partners requirements, MRD(s) from internal stakeholders and synthesize these into structured Product Requirements Document (PRD)
- Network and coordinate with Business Stakeholders and key partners to continuously drive customer requirements into the product definitions
Desired Competencies:- Leadership - influences, inclusiveness, defines and drive decisions in a proactive, assertive manner, ability to articulate ideas and concepts in a compelling and targeted manner to promote change
- Presence and Communications - can create and facilitate engagement and dialogue and open communication in tense situations, and can communicate goals and plans to critical project stakeholders
- Self-starter - Comfortable driving unchartered, high paced programs with limited oversight
- Highly analytical - Data driven and possess strong problem-solving skills, can structure complicated issues and find creative solutions to business challenges
- Strong interpersonal skills - can bring difficult discussions to the table and arbitrate different viewpoints effectively, not afraid to speak up to ensure success of program and call out dysfunctionalities
- Business acumen - understands business and technical challenges and landscape, strong technical acumen with background on vertical markets and FPGA solutions
Salary RangeThe pay range below is for Bay Area California only. Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.
$166,900 - $241,675 USD We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
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Qualifications:Minimum Qualifications- Bachelor's or Masters or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 10+ years of relevant hardware design, product planning/management, customer support or technical marketing experience
- 10+ years of experience with semiconductors (FPGA, ASIC/ASSP, processors) development and manufacturing
- 8+ years of experience interacting with customers
Preferred Qualifications- 15+ years of total experience in a semiconductor or related role (ie. related to FPGA, ASIC/SOCs, Hardware etc.)
- Knowledge in FPGA architecture and FPGA development methodology
- Experience in architecting FPGA based solutions for an end market application
- Proven track record of driving successful innovation products and influencing product strategy
- Proven track record of leading cross functional teams
Job Type: Regular
Shift:Shift 1 (United States of America)
Primary Location:San Jose, California, United States
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