Cadence
Director, Product Management — Custom & Analog Design Solutions
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Sponsorship not specified$179k-$332kDetected 1 day ago
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About the role
- Analog and custom designers are expert, discerning, and rightly protective of proven methodologies.
- Success in this role depends on the depth to engage them as a peer, the judgment to prioritize what genuinely moves their productivity, and the influence to align R&D, sales, and marketing behind a single, well-articulated plan.
Responsibilities
- Engage and influence expert practitioners. Build deep, credible relationships with senior analog and custom circuit designers and their leadership
- understand their design challenges first-hand, and earn the technical trust needed to shift entrenched methodologies and drive adoption of Cadence solutions.
- Go-to-market. Own positioning, messaging, and technical value narrative
- Drive adoption & revenue. Lead key customer engagements and business-development activity
- convert skeptical, high-expertise design teams into active users and advocates, and grow adoption and revenue across strategic accounts.
- Competitive & market intelligence. Continuously monitor the analog, mixed-signal, and broader semiconductor design landscape
- Cross-functional leadership. Align R&D, sales, marketing, and other stakeholders around a single coherent plan, and represent the product in executive, analyst, partner, and customer forums.
- Build the team. As the product scales, hire, coach, and develop product managers - leading by context, not control - and instill rigorous product discovery and delivery practices.
- Build deep, credible relationships with senior analog and custom circuit designers and their leadership; understand their design challenges first-hand, and earn the technical trust needed to
- shift entrenched methodologies and drive adoption of Cadence solutions.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI/ML-assisted design tools and modern design-productivity approaches.
- Experience with EDA or software commercial models (subscription, term, and consumption-based licensing).
- MBA or equivalent commercial experience is a plus.
- We're doing work that matters.
- Help us solve what others can't.
- 10+ years in the semiconductor / EDA industry, including 5+ years in product management, product marketing, or product-line ownership.
- Demonstrated ownership of a product or product line - roadmap, requirements, pricing/packaging, and go-to-market - with accountability for adoption and revenue.
Compensation
- Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure.
- Please note that the salary range is a guideline and compensation may vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location.
Benefits
- Set the vision, strategy, multi-year roadmap, detailed requirements, and release priorities for your product line, grounded in direct customer and market feedback from analog design teams.
- bonus, equity, and benefits.
- Our benefits programs include:
- paid vacation and paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options, and more.
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