About this role
About the Role Wolfspeed is seeking a SiC Discrete Product Manager to lead product management and technical marketing for the silicon carbide (SiC) power discrete portfolio. The role focuses on the global market, existing and future customers, and requires collaboration with internal technical and operations teams, as well as sales, to translate requirements into market-ready products and back into actionable customer needs.
This position requires creativity, vision, and attention to detail to map customer requirements to internal capabilities and drive next-generation product platform innovations.
What You'll Do
- Develop market requirement documents (MRD) and product requirement documents (PRD) with prioritized features, target market applications, and business plan support.
- Lead technical presentations with customers and sales on product and application issues.
- Champion internal development of new discrete MOSFETs and diodes to meet customer demand and drive qualification at customers.
- Monitor market trends via Voice of the Customer and publication reviews.
- Be an expert on competitors' capabilities and product positioning while understanding end-market uses and requirements.
- Work with sales on product specifications for special business opportunities.
- Manage the product portfolio from market launch through obsolescence of all discretes.
- Interface with R&D, NPI, Production/Operations, and Quality to build and sustain product lines.
- Contribute to new product roadmaps and initial product definitions.
- Create and distribute sales tools, application notes, and technical guidelines.
- Conduct field and customer training; establish ongoing methodologies and processes.
- Understand cost models to support product pricing strategies.
What We're Looking For
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, or similar technical degree.
- 7-10 years of semiconductor product management, product marketing and/or applications engineering.
- Good general knowledge of both sales and semiconductor product manufacturing processes.
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
- Strong verbal, written, and presentation communications skills.
- Willingness to travel, including internationally as necessary.
- Self-motivated with a strong drive to achieve business objectives.
- Ability to blend the technical and commercial to deliver a balanced approach to problems.
- Strong analytical skills.
Highly preferred
- Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, or similar technical degree.
- Knowledge of wide bandgap semiconductors.
- System-level power electronics knowledge.
- Experience supporting customers, direct sales and distribution sales partners.
- Experience with new product launch and new business development.
- Understanding and implementation of multiple marketing tools and approaches.
- Understanding of basic semiconductor device technology and assembly.
Nice to Have
- Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, or similar technical degree.
- Knowledge of wide bandgap semiconductors.
- System-level power electronics knowledge.
- Experience supporting customers, direct sales and distribution sales partners.
- Experience with new product launch and new business development.
- Understanding and implementation of multiple marketing tools and approaches.
- Understanding of basic semiconductor device technology and assembly.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary and benefits not specified in the posting.