Innovation Manager - Austin, Texas, United States
Originally posted 27 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As an Innovation Manager at Cirrus Venture Labs, you will take ownership of emerging technology ventures from problem discovery and opportunity definition through prototyping, business validation, and incubation. The role focuses on opportunities across mixed-signal processing, power, sensing, and embedded systems, including domains such as Physical AI, edge computing, sensor networks, and data center power infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Act as the directly responsible individual for emerging technology ventures, owning vision, strategy, execution, and transition toward a business unit. - Lead the identification, assessment, and prioritization of emerging technology opportunities and innovation funnels. - Mobilize internal engineering teams, startups, customers, and external partners to prototype and validate architectures and applications. - Develop technology and business hypotheses, define critical assumptions and success criteria, and drive investment proposals. - Identify, structure, and negotiate external technology partnerships, co-development agreements, and licensing arrangements. - Build relationships with lighthouse customers, startups, venture investors, and academic institutions to validate unmet needs.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. - Minimum of 7 years in technical product leadership, technology development, engineering leadership, or entrepreneurial roles advancing emerging technologies in semiconductors, software, or embedded systems. - Technical foundation in hardware and/or software systems and architectures, with demonstrated depth in at least one relevant domain. - Proven experience evaluating nascent technologies, defining technical and commercial success criteria, and advancing concepts through prototyping and validation. - Experience developing and negotiating commercial or technical agreements, including technology licensing, joint development, or strategic partnerships. - Ability to lead cross-functional multidisciplinary teams across engineering, research, and product functions without direct organizational authority.
Nice to have
- Master's or Ph.D. in a relevant technical discipline, or an MBA with a strong technical foundation. - Deep experience in Physical AI and edge ML algorithms, embedded compute architectures, intelligent sensing, sensor networks, data center power infrastructure, power electronics, robotics, or advanced control and drive systems. - Experience founding, building, or leading early-stage technology ventures, corporate incubation programs, or venture studios. - Demonstrated track record structuring and closing technology partnerships, co-development agreements, licensing arrangements, or strategic investments involving IP rights and commercial terms. - Experience leading agile, cross-disciplinary development teams to test technical hypotheses and advance early-stage concepts toward scalable products.
Skills: technology incubation, prototyping, venture leadership, product roadmap
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 50-day median for Product Management roles.
Product Management · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
40
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$229k
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| Metric | Cirrus Logic | All employers we track in this specialty (40 roles · 15 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 40 |
| Median days open | 0 d | 50 d (−50 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: technology incubation, prototyping, venture leadership, product roadmap
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 11 open roles · median 42 d
- AMD · 6 open roles · median 29 d
- NVIDIA · 6 open roles · median 11 d
- GlobalFoundries · 5 open roles · median 32 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 2 open roles · median 90 d
- Altera · 1 open role · median 87 d
How we counted: 40 open Product Management (SOC Architecture) roles from 15 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.