Product Management Director
About The Position
Jabil is seeking a strategic, customer-focused Director of Product Line Management to lead the definition, commercialization, and lifecycle management of next-generation Ethernet networking solutions for AI data centers. The role owns product strategy and business performance for Jabil’s AI networking portfolio, including high-performance Ethernet switches, liquid-cooled network systems, co-packaged optics, optical interconnect solutions, rack-scale networking platforms, and related hardware and software ecosystem offerings. The director will guide products from market requirements through deployment, working with engineering, operations, sales, supply chain, ecosystem partners, and strategic customers to create networking platforms for hyperscale AI infrastructure. The role calls for deep understanding of AI cluster architectures, Ethernet fabrics, switching silicon roadmaps, optical connectivity, cooling technologies, and datacenter deployment models. It also represents Jabil at industry events and helps build the company’s thought leadership and influence in AI networking.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
- 12 or more years of experience in product management, product marketing, engineering, or business leadership.
- Five years of experience in a team lead role.
- Five or more years managing networking infrastructure products.
- Proven experience with Ethernet switch technologies and datacenter networking.
- Experience leading complex cross-functional organizations.
- Demonstrated ownership of product roadmaps and business results.
- Strong knowledge of Ethernet switching architectures, AI cluster networking, leaf-spine fabric design, scale-out and scale-up AI networks, SONiC, network operating systems, switch ASIC architectures, optical interconnect technologies, silicon photonics, co-packaged optics, rack integration, liquid cooling architectures, the OCP ecosystem, and hyperscale datacenter infrastructure.
- Strong commercial acumen, customer focus, executive communication and presentation skills, and analytical and financial modeling capabilities.
- Ability to influence and work with geographically dispersed teams across different regions and time zones, with availability to interact at different times during the day.
- Ability to balance innovation, risk, profitability, and speed to market.
- Demonstrated success leading through ambiguity and rapidly evolving technologies.
Nice To Haves
- MBA.
- Experience with Broadcom Tomahawk, Jericho, Ramon, or equivalent switching platforms.
- Experience with Marvell networking solutions.
- Experience developing products for hyperscale cloud providers.
- Familiarity with AI infrastructure architectures from NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, Arista, Cisco, and similar ecosystem leaders.
- Knowledge of optics, fiber connectivity, and photonics manufacturing.
- Experience managing products through NPI-to-volume manufacturing transitions.
Responsibilities
- Own the long-term product strategy for Jabil’s AI networking portfolio.
- Define roadmaps for front-end Ethernet switching, AI scale-out Ethernet fabrics, AI scale-up networking, co-packaged and near-packaged optical architectures, and rack-level networking infrastructure.
- Identify emerging technology trends and turn them into differentiated product offerings.
- Develop business cases, investment strategies, and growth plans for new networking platforms.
- Engage with hyperscalers, cloud service providers, AI infrastructure companies, network OEMs, and semiconductor partners.
- Translate customer requirements into executable product specifications.
- Represent the product organization in customer workshops, roadmap reviews, and executive briefings.
- Establish strategic relationships with switch silicon, optics, and software ecosystem providers.
- Guide roadmap decisions involving Ethernet generations, switching silicon, SONiC and OpenBMC, co-packaged optics and silicon photonics, liquid-cooled networking, and OCP and ORv3 architectures.
- Ensure products align with evolving AI datacenter requirements and standards.
- Represent Jabil at industry events and influence industry standards and ecosystem development.
- Build Jabil’s thought leadership in AI networking infrastructure.
Benefits
- Short-term performance-based incentive.
- Medical insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Paid time off.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
