About this role
Job title: Principal Engineer, Global Product Management
About the Role As a Principal Engineer, Global Product Management at ASM, you’ll influence a broad scope within the Product Management group. You will drive product management and technical marketing activities across the lifecycle, collaborating with global customers and internal experts to deliver innovative semiconductor and capital equipment solutions. This role requires curiosity, collaboration, and the ability to translate customer needs into strategic product plans.
What You'll Do
- Drive the product life cycle from concept to high volume manufacturing to obsolescence
- Maintain and update product roadmaps for a portfolio, aligning priorities with customers and internal experts
- Engage with customers in technical meetings; create/manage customer presentations; conduct market and competitive analyses
- Own market requirements specifications (MRS) and ensure alignment with customer needs
- Develop market strategies for executive R&D expenditure requests; prepare roadmap and product strategy presentations for executives
- Collaborate with finance on NPV and IRR analyses; maintain cost of ownership models
- Participate in operations/planning meetings; create business plans and forecasts; support budget planning and competitive analysis
- Lead cross-functional teams to achieve product gross margin targets
- Lead New Product Introductions, including inflection analyses, business planning, and executive alignment; position products in market
- Support product development teams with specifications, data collection, customer demo requests, and prioritization of development activities
- Engage with suppliers to develop capabilities for new products
- Promote products through conference materials, launches, and sales training
- Interact with external global customers and suppliers to understand needs and ensure alignment with product strategy and prioritization
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of semiconductor / capital equipment industry experience, with significant portion in technical marketing and/or product management
- Masters or PhD in Material Science, Electrical/Chemical/Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
- Process, hardware, or device experience in semiconductors or capital equipment
- High level of proficiency or deep understanding of capital equipment systems in semiconductor or similar industry
- Direct customer engagement or supplier management
- Ability to work with multiple internal disciplines on portfolio of products
- Understanding of product life cycle and technical marketing
- Ability to travel globally
Nice to Have
- ALD or CVD experience is a plus
Compensation & Benefits
- Not disclosed in the posting