Product Manager 5

Lam Research•Fremont, CA

1d•$125,000 - $270,000•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.

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.
Sound judgement and decision making capability
An inquisitive nature
Demonstrated capacity to provide structure and guidance in a chaotic environment
Ability to work effectively across multiple organizations and levels of management.
Confidence and background to lead and challenge a team of highly technical and competent individuals.
Ability to understand and mentor the role of product manager to less experienced peers.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Accountable for Product Lifecycle Management overall
EPL – 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 shipmentplans 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.