Product Line Manager

The role

This individual contributor role supports strategy and execution across high-speed optical interconnect solutions. You will partner with various teams to define product priorities, support customer engagement, and drive execution against business goals.

What you will do

• Own and drive execution of the co-packaged optical solution product line.
• Partner with engineering, product, customer-facing teams, suppliers, and contract manufacturers.
• Lead manufacturing partner engagement for design, reliability, and compliance testing.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across multiple technical and operational departments.
• Lead internal readiness planning for materials, suppliers, and technical documentation.
• Support supplier technical discussions.
• Partner with engineering and operations to ensure qualified suppliers meet requirements.
• Prepare and document technical reviews, product line updates, and risk assessments.
• Support product adoption and ensure smooth integration for customers.
• Work with customer engineering teams to support design wins.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related field
• 7-10 years of industry experience supporting or managing optical product lines for communications, networking, or data transmission applications
• Working knowledge of pluggable optical modules and transceiver technologies, including 800G platforms and emerging 1.6T architectures
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, operations, sales, and manufacturing teams
• Familiarity with product lifecycle management, market analysis, and customer engagement
• Comfort working with business metrics, product performance data, and commercial trade-offs

Nice to have

• MBA or advanced technical degree
• Experience in photonics, optics, or adjacent high-speed connectivity technologies
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, data center, or optical networking markets
• Familiarity with common pluggable transceiver form factors and deployment considerations, such as QSFP-DD and OSFP platforms

Benefits

• Competitive salary and significant equity compensation
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible time off policy
• Direct impact on groundbreaking technology shaping the future of AI and data centers
• Opportunity to work with a highly experienced and collaborative team
• Dynamic and innovative work environment
• Opportunity for rapid career growth

About the company

Lumilens is building critical photonics infrastructure that powers AI supercomputing. It is a well-funded startup backed by Mayfield.