Product Line Mgmt

Applied Materials • Santa Clara, CA

2d • $147,000 - $202,500

About The Position

Applied Materials is hiring for a Product Line Mgmt role in Santa Clara, California. The position owns product change management and control, including approvals and implementation of product and engineering changes, while ensuring customer-shipped configurations and bills of materials are accurate. It manages field-service activities and customer-impacting system feedback, and oversees common-module and component roadmaps after Phase 5 of ePLC.

The role also facilitates intercompany alignment on product strategies, pricing, spare-level contents, restricted-part orders, roadmaps, and market proliferation. It implements cost-reduction roadmaps, manages strategic vendor issues, and manages post-release product changes driven by engineering, quality, safety, customer demands, or supply obsolescence. The work calls for specialized expertise, sound judgment in solving complex problems, communication and negotiation skills, and may involve leading functional teams or projects of moderate complexity. Travel is 50% of the time, and relocation is eligible.

Requirements

• Demonstrated depth and/or breadth of expertise in the specialized discipline or field.
• Ability to interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products, processes, or services.
• Ability to lead others in solving complex problems using sophisticated analytical thought and judgment to identify innovative solutions.
• Ability to communicate difficult concepts and negotiate with others to adopt a different point of view.
• Willingness to travel 50% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Own product change management (PCM) and control.
• Approve and control unreleased products.
• Approve Engineering Change Orders (ECOs).
• Implement Part Change Notifications (PCNs) with Global Product Support.
• Manage field-service-related activities and review, approve, and filter system feedback activities that may affect customers.
• Ensure the accuracy of customer-shipped configurations and bills of materials (BOMs).
• Conduct Configuration Accuracy Review Meeting (CaRM) reviews and ensure BOM accuracy.
• Approve Non-Standard Requests (NSRs).
• Own the common-modules roadmap and its implementation after Phase 5 of ePLC.
• Implement component roadmaps, including part obsolescence, replacements, alternative vendors, and cost reduction.
• Facilitate intercompany communication to align on product strategies and provide guidance on pricing, spare-level contents, and restricted-part orders.
• Facilitate alignment meetings for product roadmaps and market proliferation.
• Implement the cost-reduction roadmap.
• Manage strategic vendor issues.
• Manage all product changes after product release, including changes driven by engineering, quality, safety, customer demands, or supply obsolescence.
• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, or complexity.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Candidates may be eligible for participation in a bonus program and a stock award program, as applicable.
• Relocation eligible.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed