Altera
Lead Product Planner
San Jose, California, United States · Senior
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$22,630 more — $189,530 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $189,530 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Mechanical Engineers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- At Altera™, our independence as the world's largest pure‑play FPGA solutions provider gives us the focus, speed, and agility to innovate without compromise.
- The Product Planning Group plays a key role in partnering and influencing strategic deliverables throughout the organization.
- Activities include driving planning processes, competitive analysis, market analysis, and participating in strategic task forces.
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
- 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
- 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
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Masters or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 10+ years of experience with semiconductors (FPGA, ASIC/ASSP, processors) development and manufacturing
- Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.
- 10+ years of relevant hardware design, product planning/management, customer support or technical marketing experience
- 8+ years of experience interacting with customers
Nice to have
- 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
Skills
- About Altera
Compensation
- The 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
Company info
- The Product Planning runs certain strategic processes, visits customers, collaborates with Sales, the Business Management group, Architects and influences the organization via these processes.
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