SMTS Product Manager - Global Tapeout and Mask Organization

GlobalFoundries • Austin, TX

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About The Position

As a Product Manager in GlobalFoundries’ Global Tapeout and Mask Organization, you will lead the strategy, roadmap, and business ownership of tapeout engineering capabilities supporting product configuration, design-data validation, and manufacturing readiness. These capabilities connect customer design enablement, tapeout engineering, and semiconductor manufacturing to ensure products are accurately defined, validated, and prepared for production. You will partner with Product Lines, manufacturing fabs, and Customer Sales to modernize tapeout workflows and improve the customer experience.

The role owns the product strategy, roadmap, and release priorities for Global Product Configurator (GPC), which captures technology, process, and product options, and Global Product Validator (GPV), which verifies customer design data against the expected manufacturing configuration before and during tapeout. The Product Manager serves as the primary business owner and subject matter expert for these solutions, aligning them with business and manufacturing objectives. Responsibilities include developing product features, testing product functionality, and collaborating on training needs.

GlobalFoundries is an equal opportunity employer. An offer is conditioned upon successful completion of applicable pre-employment conditions and is subject to applicable laws and regulations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, such as Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 12 or more years of experience in semiconductor operations, product management, data management, or a closely related field.
• Experience owning software or data products end to end, from roadmap through release.
• Working knowledge of semiconductor design data, DMs, PDKs, mask layers, and tapeout flows, or demonstrated ability to quickly learn a technical manufacturing domain.
• Proven ability to lead through ambiguity and influence technical and non-technical stakeholder groups.
• Strong written and verbal communication, planning, and organizational skills.
• Bias toward continuously improving system solutions, documentation, and operating procedures.
• Strong people leadership and talent development mindset.
• Execution-focused approach with high accountability standards.
• Ability to translate technical complexity into executive-level insights.
• Confident decision-making and escalation judgment.
• Collaborative, calm-under-pressure, and outcomes-oriented approach.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Project management skills, including the ability to innovate and execute on meaningful solutions and navigate ambiguity.
• 13 or more years of experience in semiconductor operations, product and data management, or tapeout flows, with technical aptitude in a manufacturing setting.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy, roadmap, and release priorities for product configuration and design-data verification capabilities, working with Product Lines, Sales, Manufacturing, Tapeout Engineering, and IT stakeholders.
• Ensure configuration and verification processes integrate seamlessly and maintain a single source of truth from customer order definition through tapeout and manufacturing execution.
• Improve data quality, configuration governance, and validation controls to reduce setup errors, verification mismatches, and downstream escalations.
• Translate business, technology, and manufacturing requirements into scalable product capabilities, automated rules, and user-centric workflows.
• Enable new technology nodes, products, and manufacturing offerings by ensuring configuration options and verification methodologies are accurately modeled and validated before customer deployment.
• Improve platform usability, performance, automation, and scalability to accelerate customer onboarding, design verification, and tapeout readiness.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize enhancements, manage product backlogs, and deliver solutions that improve operational efficiency and customer experience.
• Establish and track KPIs, including configuration accuracy, verification coverage, escape prevention, respin risk reduction, tapeout cycle time, and user adoption.
• Serve as the primary business owner and subject matter expert for product configuration and design-data verification solutions, ensuring alignment with strategic business and manufacturing objectives.
• Create features for product enhancement and transformation, perform product functionality testing, and collaborate on training needs.
• Perform all activities safely and responsibly and support Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security requirements and programs.
• Perform other tasks as assigned by the manager or supervisor.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior