Principal Product Manager - Renesas Electronics

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

As a Product Manager at Renesas' Memory interface product division, your goal is to secure design wins for our key and strategic customers.

We are seeking an individual who has a strong desire to interact with our customers and sales team, promote our product, and emphasize our leadership position in memory logic products.

Innovation, enthusiasm, and the drive to win are among the most important qualities for this position, as well as a strong team mentality.

Responsibilities

• Create compelling design win content for the current and upcoming memory logic products working with architecture and planning.
• Actively promote Renesas products to customers, internal sales teams, and distributors.
• Identify strategic opportunities in closely working with key memory eco-system players such as Intel, Samsung, Cloud Service Providers, and other controller vendors such as AMD and ARM.
• Provide technical and sales training to distributors.
• Perform top-down and bottom-up market analyses on existing and new markets
• Develop business plans to forecast and drive increases of design wins and net revenue worldwide.
• Generate market communication materials: sales and marketing promotional collateral and training collateral, including ad copy, press releases, articles, brochures and other print pieces, and PowerPoint presentations.
• Influence x-functional team with customer feature requirements, develop clear marketing requirements document (MRD) and product requirements document (PRD)
• Work with design, product, and test engineering groups to support the product throughout its lifecycle.

• BSEE or equivalent required, MBA or Masters in Engineering Management desirable
• 15+ years’ experience in product marketing, management, or planning
• Solid product management and marketing experience of enterprise silicon products, with a good understanding of Signal Integrity products and memory products.
• Semiconductor Product planning, technical marketing or application engineering experience, technical knowledge and skills within the specific areas of mixed-signal, logic or SI products.
• Understanding of distribution sales and how to motivate and incentivize demand creation.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with customers, sales force, peers, and management
• Understand the semiconductor product lifecycle.
• Strong analytical and business skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Up to 50% travel required

Renesas Electronics Corporation empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. The leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at renesas.com.

Renesas’ mission, To Make Our Lives Easier, is underpinned by our company culture, TAGIE. TAGIE stands for Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative and Entrepreneurial. Our goal is to embed this unique culture in everything we do to succeed as a company and create trust with our diverse colleagues, customers and stakeholders.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.