Koch Industries

Product Line Manager

Koch Industries$150K — $180K *
Lisle, IL 60532In-Person
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in product management within fiber optics or related infrastructure markets
  • Strong understanding of business and financial metrics
  • Ability to translate customer insights into product strategies
  • Experience in cross-functional collaboration in technical environments
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder influence skills
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive the global product line strategy for fiber solutions
  • Lead full product lifecycle from concept to end-of-life
  • Define and execute new product introduction strategy
  • Translate customer insights into clear product requirements
  • Manage portfolio performance, growth, and profitability
  • Develop pricing strategies and support customer engagements
  • Lead cross-functional alignment to execute product strategies

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and long-term disability coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance
  • Additional benefits for family support, including parental leave and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
J ob Title: Product Line Manager (Global)
Product Family: Fiber Interconnect Solutions
Business Unit: Connected Enterprise Solutions
Location: Preferred location: Lisle, IL (onsite). Remote work arrangements may be considered for candidates located outside the Lisle area who possess significant experience within the fiber optic or copper product portfolio.
Travel: ~10% travel

Your Job

As a Product Line Manager, you will lead the strategy and performance of a portfolio of primarily fiber-based interconnect solutions, with adjacent copper offerings, supporting enterprise buildings and commercial data center environments. You'll operate with a true General Manager mindset, owning direction, investment decisions, and business outcomes.

This portfolio represents a strategically critical and globally deployed product line, supporting customers across key enterprise infrastructure markets and applications.

As enterprise environments continue to evolve, with increasing bandwidth demands, density, and performance requirements, the need for scalable, high-performance fiber connectivity solutions is accelerating. This creates meaningful opportunities to shape the future of enterprise and data center infrastructure.

This is a strategic, high-visibility role where you will align product strategy with practical customer applications and real-world deployment needs, helping strengthen Molex's position in the enterprise connectivity market.

Our Team

You will be part of Molex's Connected Enterprise Solutions business unit, focused on delivering end-to-end fiber and copper infrastructure that powers enterprise buildings and data centers.

Our team operates with a Principle Based Management (PBM) philosophy, empowering individuals to think like owners, challenge assumptions, and create long-term value. We are highly collaborative across engineering, operations, sales, and marketing, and we are deeply aligned around innovation, customer success, and business impact.

We value principled entrepreneurs, individuals who combine ownership, initiative, and sound judgment to drive results and create long-term value.

What You Will Do

  • Own and drive the global product line strategy and roadmap for fiber-led enterprise connectivity solutions, with supporting copper applications
  • Lead the full product lifecycle, from concept through commercialization and end-of-life
  • Define and execute NPI strategy, partnering closely with engineering to deliver application-driven fiber solutions
  • Translate voice of customer and field insights into clear product and technology requirements
  • Own portfolio performance, growth, margin, and profitability
  • Develop and execute pricing strategy and support key customer engagements
  • Partner directly with Sales and customers across enterprise buildings, structured cabling, and commercial data centers
  • Evaluate competitive dynamics and position Molex solutions around performance, scalability, ease of deployment, and total cost of ownership
  • Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, operations, and supply chain to execute effectively
  • Lead continuous improvement across cost, quality, and portfolio optimization


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Experience in product management or product line leadership within fiber optics, connectivity, structured cabling, or related infrastructure markets
  • Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to connect strategy to results
  • Proven ability to translate customer and market insights into actionable product strategies
  • Experience working cross-functionally in technical environments
  • Strong communication and stakeholder influence skills
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience owning a global product portfolio with P&L accountability
  • Experience with fiber optic interconnects or fiber cabling systems (highly preferred), with exposure to copper solutions as a complementary capability
  • Familiarity with enterprise building infrastructure or commercial data center environments
  • Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders


For this role, we anticipate paying $150,000- $180,000 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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