Sr Dir, Product Mgmt
Originally posted 2 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Own the definition of the MPU platform strategy, including family architecture, derivative and segmentation strategy, and roadmaps for industrial, physical AI, multi-modal AI, and general-purpose embedded markets. You will lead a platform team of IP planners and solution definers while arbitrating on-chip resource allocations and driving the platform business case.
What you'll do
- Own the definition of the MPU platform family architecture, derivative and segmentation strategy, and product roadmap.
- Build, lead, and mentor the platform team covering industrial solutions, robotics solutions, DDR/memory subsystems, vision IP, and performance benchmarking.
- Arbitrate die-level resource allocations across area, power, memory bandwidth, and schedule among competing IP domains.
- Establish standards for IP make-versus-buy-versus-license evaluations, technical due diligence, and requirement sign-off.
- Own the platform business case with Finance and the Business Unit, including margin modeling, pricing structure, and volume assumptions.
- Direct platform-level security and functional safety strategy, including secure boot, root of trust, and certification roadmaps.
What you'll need
- 12+ years of experience in semiconductor or embedded product planning, SoC/platform architecture, or IP planning, including experience defining MPU/SoC platforms.
- Demonstrated leadership experience building, hiring, and managing technical planning or architecture teams.
- Technical breadth across vision and multi-modal sensing, AI acceleration, memory/DDR sub-systems, connectivity, and security IP domains.
- Proven experience arbitrating cross-domain trade-offs across area, power, memory bandwidth, and schedule.
- Fluency in commercial models including cost structure, margin modeling, segmentation, and pricing structure.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Skills: product management, MPU, SoC platform, IP planning, pricing structure
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 35-day median for Product Management roles.
Product Management · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
42
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Median days open
35 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$229k
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| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (42 roles · 16 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 42 |
| Median days open | 2 d | 35 d (−33 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: product management, MPU, SoC platform, IP planning, pricing structure
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 12 open roles · median 34 d
- AMD · 7 open roles · median 33 d
- NVIDIA · 6 open roles · median 17 d
- GlobalFoundries · 3 open roles · median 31 d
- Arm Holdings · 2 open roles · median 41 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 2 open roles · median 96 d
How we counted: 42 open Product Management (SOC Architecture) roles from 16 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 2 Nov 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.