Director, Digital IP Roadmap

Silicon Laboratories•Austin, TX

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Silicon Labs is seeking a Director, Digital IP Roadmap to define and drive the roadmap for its digital IP portfolio, which provides a foundation for products across the company. The role connects current and future product needs with the development and evolution of the IPs that support them. It gathers input from product definition, architecture, design, applications, customers, and emerging industry standards, then assesses needs, sets priorities, and guides roadmap planning for a portfolio of more than 200 IPs. The director also contributes to processes that help teams align development with the roadmap. This is a senior, highly collaborative role working with IP managers and design teams across multiple global sites. Those teams remain responsible for executing development work. The director applies technical expertise to evaluate proposed features and tradeoffs, understand implementation effort, and build a roadmap that is useful to the business and grounded in engineering realities. The position is based in Austin, Texas.

Requirements

15 or more years of experience in the semiconductor industry, with experience in a product-focused organization.
A track record of working across multiple functions, such as design, systems, architecture, applications, or product definition.
Hands-on experience with digital IP design, including prior RTL design experience.
Strong understanding of SoC design and the role digital IP plays in product development.
Ability to assess technical proposals, implementation tradeoffs, and development effort.
Experience contributing to or driving IP planning, roadmaps, or cross-functional development initiatives.
Clear communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to bring together stakeholders with different perspectives.
A collaborative, open approach to gathering input, building alignment, and making decisions.
Experience with artificial intelligence (AI) powered tools and technologies used to enhance productivity, analysis, and decision-making.

Nice To Haves

Experience with wireless or general-purpose SoCs is relevant to this role.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain the digital IP roadmap in alignment with current and anticipated product needs.
Gather and reconcile input from product definition, architecture, design, applications, customers, and external standards.
Assess and prioritize IP development opportunities, including immediate market needs and longer-term portfolio improvements.
Coordinate IP streams and communicate roadmap priorities, plans, and dependencies across global teams.
Drive the IP change management process and support consistent planning across the portfolio.
Work with IP managers and design teams to align development plans with roadmap priorities.
Evaluate potential IP features and subsystems, including emerging areas such as display, vision, and audio.
Build strong working relationships across functions and resolve differing viewpoints through thoughtful, inclusive collaboration.
Keep roadmap decisions technically grounded by considering feasibility, implementation effort, and the needs of the products that will use the IP.