Product Management , Staff

Originally posted 1 October 2026 by the employer.

This role focuses on the OptoCompiler and Lumerical product lines.

About the role

This staff product management role owns the product strategy and roadmap for OptoCompiler and Lumerical, tools essential for photonic IC designers, optical engineers, and process engineers.

What you'll do

• Own product strategy and roadmap for OptoCompiler and Lumerical, balancing customer needs, technical feasibility, competitive positioning, and business impact.
• Translate insights from photonic IC designers, optical engineers, and process engineers into clear product requirements and prioritized feature backlogs.
• Work directly with customers to understand their design workflows, adoption blockers, and emerging use cases in photonic integrated circuits, optical interconnects, and electronic-photonic co-design.
• Make roadmap prioritization decisions maximizing product impact and market success, informed by R&D, sales, applications engineering, and customer success teams.
• Lead product launches end-to-end, defining release content, developing positioning and messaging, proposing pricing and packaging, and creating 'What's New' content.
• Support go-to-market execution by collaborating with Product Marketing on launch plans, sales enablement materials, webinars, and conference presentations.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, optics, photonics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of product management experience in photonics, optics, simulation software, or closely related technical domains, or 3+ years with an advanced degree (MS or PhD preferred).
• Deep understanding of photonic design workflows, simulation methods such as FDTD, EME, or FEEM, and customer use cases in datacom, silicon photonics, optical interconnects, or foundry environments.
• Direct experience with products like OptoCompiler, Lumerical, or adjacent photonic design and simulation platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to own a product roadmap and make prioritization decisions balancing customer impact, technical risk, competitive positioning, and business value.
• Strong technical communication skills, including the ability to present roadmaps, trade-offs, and business cases to customers, internal teams, and executive leadership.
• Track record of leading product launches, including positioning, messaging, pricing and packaging recommendations, and sales enablement.

Nice to have

• Experience in EDA, photonic design automation, optical simulation, or adjacent engineering software markets.
• Willingness to travel occasionally for customer visits, conferences, and team meetings.

Skills: product strategy, roadmap, OptoCompiler, Lumerical, photonic IC designers