Product Manager 5

Lam Research•Fremont, CA

11h•Hybrid

About The Position

In the Global Products Group, we are dedicated to excellence in the design and engineering of Lam’s etch and deposition products. We drive innovation to ensure our cutting-edge solutions are helping to solve the biggest challenges in the semiconductor industry. As a Product Manager at Lam, you play a crucial role in defining the strategy, roadmap, and features of the product. You are both strategic and tactical. You will span the entire product life cycle, from definition and planning to production release, upgrades, and end-of-life. Your leadership skills will be vital in ensuring cross-functional collaboration across different departments to drive the success of the portfolio of products. With your expertise in both business and technical domains, you’ll bring the product vision to life for Lam and our customers. A Senior Product Manager’s focus is 100% on the Product. They are the leader for all groups to align priorities, define objectives, drive decisions to meet product development needs, market objectives, and released product support requirements. The ideal candidate will have sound judgement and decision making capability, an inquisitive nature, demonstrated capacity to provide structure and guidance in a chaotic environment and the ability to work effectively across multiple organizations and levels of management. They must have the confidence and background to lead and challenge a team of highly technical and competent individuals. They must be able to understand and mentor the role of product manager to less experienced peers.

Requirements

Minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

Minimum 5+ years applicable experience
Previous experience in semiconductor capital equipment industry
Familiarity with wafer handling and/or mechatronics systems
Supervisory or management experience

Responsibilities

Collect & distill market / customer needs and Lam business objectives input from across organization leadership (Technology, Engineering, Product Support, Marketing, etc.) to define product roadmap and strategy
Author vision statement, accountable for documenting business objectives and product requirements that form the basis for development / improvement programs, maintain living document under revision control throughout development & release process
Drive vision into projects / programs supporting program/project manager in achieving project goals
Facilitate roundtable review of market, technology, and competitive trends leading to revision of product strategy / roadmap and organizational priorities
Define implementation strategy for product enhancements, improvements and fixes
Communicate implementation strategy via Plan of Record (POR) to the development, operations, and customer accounts
Ensure that key product decisions adhere to the PS&DM and PDR Processes
Champion utilization of the PDR process, drive the program/project team to address PDR requirements, product design/development trade-offs and associated risk decisions
Drive release of the product into Lean Manufacturing, Customer Service and the Order Fulfillment process
Accountable for Product Lifecycle Management overall
Stakeholder of the Program Priority List of programs/projects to focus resources in line with organizational objectives for owned products
Prioritize programs to allocate resources aligned with overall organizational objectives
Define and communicate the product offered for sale through the Product Option Architecture(POA) system and approve product changes
Manage unreleased product proliferation: capture and communicate early forecasts and shipment plans in the Unreleased Build Plan Process (URBP); submit DMRF’s to drive unreleased material; and approve Critical Design Reviews; align and approve new part spares inventory
Define & manage E/OCOGS – financial reserve fund requirements to support implementation of enhancements/improvements to issues in the field, define and manage reserves maintained to achieve specific business objectives in the field
Review and disposition PR’s in iPLM, BOM change orders, and NSR’s; provide supporting rationale and alternatives to justify decisions and determine pricing
Ensure timely option release of NSRs
Communicate across Lam and with customer known product issues, the impact to ongoing operations/production and POR
Lead CFTs as necessary, coordinating operations and development groups, to mitigate the customer production impacts when scarce resources are available
Lead Safety issue CFTs to drive Safety Alert and implementation plans
Analyze and make recommendation of financial reserves and disposition of unreleased material inventory in engineering, operations and spares locations
Monitor, report & manage cost of products via collaboration with supply chain, engineering and ensure cost is a critical consideration in all design, change and product definition/strategy decisions
Identify opportunities and drive changes to achieve Shift Left gains for all product development and release activity