Position: Product Line Manager
Location: Location: North America Preferred (Valley Green PA & open to other locations)
Amphenol High Speed IO is a global leader in advanced interconnect solutions that enable next-generation AI, cloud, networking, and data center infrastructure. Our products power many of the world's most demanding computing platforms, delivering the performance, reliability, and scale required by leading technology companies worldwide.
With engineering, manufacturing, and commercial teams located across North America, Asia, and Europe, we develop innovative connectivity solutions that support the rapid evolution of AI and high-performance computing architectures.
We are seeking a Product Line Manager to join our OverPass™ business based in the Valley Green PA area. This role will be responsible for driving the strategic growth of a portfolio of advanced OverPass™ interconnect solutions supporting AI, networking, and next-generation computing platforms. The successful candidate may be responsible for one or more product families spanning near-chip, co-packaged, front I/O, cable assembly, and emerging connectivity technologies, while partnering closely with engineering, operations, sales, and customers to drive business growth and technology leadership.
The successful candidate will own product strategy, roadmap development, customer engagement, business planning, pricing, and design-win execution while working closely with engineering, operations, sales, and manufacturing teams to deliver industry-leading connectivity solutions for AI, cloud, and networking applications.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Product Line Manager will work with cross functional teams to drive the development and marketing of Amphenol's Overpass products. This role will be responsible for promoting our products to their assigned market, winning key new design opportunities, and developing/executing the product strategies required to rapidly grow the business, both top and bottom line. The ideal candidate must be versatile, with a good blend of business and technical savvy, and a quick learner with the ability to manage new responsibilities in a dynamic environment.
Product Strategy & Roadmap
- Own product roadmaps and growth strategy for product categories in the OverPass product families.
- Define market requirements and product specifications based on customer and industry trends.
- Identify new product opportunities supporting AI infrastructure, networking, high-performance computing, and next-generation data center architectures.
- Manage products throughout their lifecycle from concept to end-of-life.
- Develop deep understanding of customer technology roadmaps and translate future platform requirements into actionable product strategies and development priorities.
- Track emerging AI infrastructure trends and identify opportunities for new products supporting next-generation compute, networking, and rack-scale architectures.
Customer & Business Development
- Drive the new business opportunity funnel, helping sales and the business unit align on the strategy and actions required to win each new opportunity. Work closely with the field sales teams to identify requirements and market trends to facilitate new design wins
- Engage directly with customers to understand technology roadmaps, application requirements, and future platform needs.
- Lead customer presentations, technical reviews, and executive discussions.
- Partner with sales teams to develop account strategies and win new opportunities.
- Proactively present and promote the product portfolio to help the field teams understand the positioning, benefits, and target customers.
Commercial & Portfolio Management
- Own revenue forecasting, bookings visibility, and opportunity management.
- Develop pricing strategies and support profitability improvement initiatives.
- Build business cases for new products, capacity expansion, and strategic investments.
- Manage lifecycle planning, PCNs, capacity planning, and portfolio rationalization.
- Prepare revenue projections for key account(s); forecast analysis and preparing book-to-ship estimates
- Maximize share at key account(s) by coordinating pricing and market strategy with sales
- Regular customer visits, travel for training, factory visits and customer negotiations.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Lead coordination between Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Sales.
- Drive new product introduction (NPI) programs from concept through production.
- Monitor project execution, risks, schedules, and customer commitments.
- Support manufacturing readiness and long-term capacity planning.
- Work with cross-functional teams (marketing, engineering, business development and operations) to proactively identify product and solution gaps and define market requirements to close the total available market space.
- Play the role of Business Plan owner for their own products through:
- Life cycle management/rationalization, PCNs
- Cost, pricing and margin management
- Capacity planning management
- Involvement in NPD and Product Extension projects
- NBO and Incremental track and management
Product Marketing
- Develop product positioning, value propositions, and customer-facing collateral.
- Conduct market research and competitive analysis.
- Support trade shows, customer workshops, and industry forums.
- Assist in developing marketing materials
- Provide sales support in terms of quotation, product documentations, implementation of samples strategy.
- Work closely with design/development/production team on manufacture capability, requirements capacity, costing and quality of manufacturing service to ensure competitive new products are introduced timely to the market
- Initiate AR justification to new product development and product extension by rationalizing investment versus business potentials, risks analysis, optimize the payback.
- Keep abreast of the market situation (current condition and future trends) and contribute in the recommendation of product line positioning to be ahead of the competition.
- Fully target site KPIs for sales revenue achievement, product margin improvement on cost reduction driving, negative margin improvement, and design win and shorten response time to quote
Success Metrics
- New design wins secured
- New Business funnel growth
- Revenue and margin improvement
- Successful NPI execution
- On-time roadmap delivery
- Customer satisfaction and strategic account growth
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Marketing, Engineering, Business Development, or Program Management.
- Experience with interconnects, high-speed connectivity, AI infrastructure, networking, semiconductor ecosystems, or data center products preferred.
- Strong financial, analytical, and project leadership skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation abilities.
- Willingness to travel and engage directly with customers globally.
- Experience working directly with hyperscale, networking, semiconductor, or AI infrastructure customers preferred.