Koch Industries

Product Line Manager - Optoelectronics

Koch Industries$125K — $200K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, physics, or related disciplines
  • Experience in the datacom or telecom industry
  • Experience in a global manufacturing environment
  • Experience managing financial metrics
  • Experience in managing optical product lines (preferred)
  • Experience in optical product development (preferred)
  • MBA (preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute product line strategies and roadmaps aligned with market trends
  • Manage product lifecycle, mitigating risks for value-driven execution
  • Oversee product forecasts and streamline manufacturing processes
  • Address customer issues and drive service levels with cross-team collaboration
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives to ensure strategic alignment across departments

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance
  • Infertility assistance and paid parental leave options
Full Job Description
In Fremont, CA, we serve large, global clients in datacom and telecom industries in providing innovative optical modules and subsystems to support our customers' next generation networks.

Our Optoelectronics team is hiring a Product Line Manager to lead high volume optical transceivers to meet the demands of our customers. This role will be fast paced and require discipline, attention to detail and a high degree of organizational skills to meet the demands of the market. This PLM will support global customers and work with a large cross functional teams across various regions globally. This person will work with customers, Program Managers, Engineering to lead the strategic direction, development, and commercialization of Opto-E product lines. This role carries the responsibility of managing product lifecycle, driving the product line growth, and supporting the cross-functional initiatives to strengthen our presence in the market.

This opportunity could be designed for an engineer looking to shift their focus to Product Management or a well established Product Line Manager to help meet the market demands.

What You Will Do

  • Develop and execute product line strategies and product roadmap to ensure the alignment with the market trend and the customers' needs in cloud services and optical networking space.
  • Manage the product lifecycle, mitigating risks and ensuring the consistent executions with value-driven approach.
  • Oversee the product forecast and streamline the manufacturing processes, proactively addressing component obsolescence, supply chain shortage, quality improvement, and cost-reduction opportunities.
  • Work closely with Sales, Application, Engineering and Quality team to address customer issues, drive service level, and secure the design wins.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives across Sales, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, and Operation team, ensuring alignments on the strategy and the shared goals.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, physics, or other related disciplines
  • Experience in datacom or telecom industry
  • Experience in global manufacturing environment
  • Experience in managing financial metrics

What Will Put You Ahead
  • Experience in managing optical product line
  • Experience in optical product development
  • MBA


For this role, we anticipate paying $125,000 - $200,000 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.

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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