Sr. Staff Product Manager (Photonics)

The role

You will lead product definition, rollout, and product introduction for photonics-enabled solutions. You will work with engineering, sales, operations, finance, and the executive team to drive design wins with semiconductor and cloud vendors.

What you will do

• Drive product definition, SKU strategy, and commercial positioning for silicon photonics products.
• Drive strategic industry partnerships for optical hardware solutions.
• Manage product rollouts and complete lifecycle management from development to volume production.
• Partner with sales to win key accounts through proposals and technical collaterals.
• Establish pricing guidelines, margin models, and revenue forecasts.
• Collaborate with technical teams to produce outbound collateral and technical documentation.

Required qualifications

• Detailed market and technical knowledge of silicon photonics and related optical technologies.
• 10+ years of related experience.
• 6+ years in product management, marketing, applications engineering, and business development roles driving high-complexity semiconductor products to volume production.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related engineering field.
• Proven track record driving products from initial business definition through design-in, volume production, and end-of-life.
• Deep experience with datacenter-deployed technology, including management, provisioning, operation, and maintenance of optical components.
• Comprehensive end-to-end knowledge of semiconductor chip design and manufacturing processes.
• Skilled in gathering, analyzing, and interpreting complex datasets.
• Collaborative leader adept at leveraging financial indicators and metrics.
• Strong communicator with a track record of aligning multi-disciplinary teams.

Nice to have

• PhD focused on Optics, Photonics, or related advanced photonic technology.
• Proactive self-starter who excels in fast-paced environments.
• Quick learner with a hands-on approach.
• Strong, established professional network across relevant datacenter, semiconductor, and optical industry segments.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Savings Matching Program
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Paid Family Leave
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Commuter Benefits
• Flexible, hybrid workplace model
• Equity grants

Before you apply

• Candidates should have capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws.

About the company

Lightmatter is leading the revolution in AI data center infrastructure. The company invented the world’s first 3D-stacked photonics engine, Passage™.