Product Line Manager - Irvine, CA, United States
$120,000 - $145,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 3 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Product Line Manager, you will partner with engineering, sales, operations, and customers to drive early-stage customer engagement, evaluate new business opportunities, and translate technical capabilities into market-driven solutions. Reporting to the Director of Product Marketing, you will evaluate opportunities using real-win-worth analysis across technical feasibility, business value, and risk.
What you'll do
- Lead customer engagement activities, build relationships, and guide technical and commercial discussions. - Identify new growth opportunities through Voice of Customer insights, market trends, and strategic alignment. - Evaluate opportunities using real-win-worth analysis, including technical feasibility, business value, and risk. - Translate complex technical concepts into clear value propositions for customers and internal stakeholders. - Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, operations, and commercial teams to align on scope, timelines, and execution. - Support proposal development, presentations, and early-stage program coordination with up to 30% travel.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Optics, Materials Science, Business, or a related technical field. - 5+ years of experience in technical marketing, business development, product management, applications engineering, or a related technical-commercial role. - Experience in optics/photonics. - Ability to evaluate opportunities from both technical and commercial perspectives and connect technical concepts to customer value and business outcomes. - Communication and presentation skills suitable for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Nice to have
- Experience with semiconductor capital equipment or subsystems. - Background in optics, photonics, lasers, imaging, or precision engineering. - Experience with RFQs, proposal development, and customer roadmap alignment. - Exposure to new product introduction (NPI) or early-stage development programs. - Experience supporting strategic accounts or complex technical sales cycles.
Skills: technical marketing, product management, semiconductor capital equipment, optics/photonics, customer roadmap, new product introduction
This role has been open 103 days — well above the 66-day median for Product Management roles.
Product Management · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
62
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Median days open
66 d
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Median salary
$194k
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| Metric | MKS Instruments | All employers we track in this specialty (62 roles · 10 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 62 |
| Median days open | 82 d | 66 d (+16 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $194k |
Skills observed across this category: technical marketing, product management, semiconductor capital equipment, optics/photonics, customer roadmap, new product introduction
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials · 24 open roles · median 79 d
- Lam Research · 15 open roles · median 62 d
- ASM International · 7 open roles · median 92 d
- Entegris · 6 open roles · median 71 d
- KLA Corporation · 3 open roles · median 137 d
- Keysight Technologies · 2 open roles · median 79 d
How we counted: 62 open Product Management (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 10 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 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.