RF Product Manager
GlobalFoundries · Santa Clara, United States · 1d ago
About GF:
GlobalFoundries (GF) is a leading manufacturer of essential semiconductors, enabling AI at scale from the cloud to the physical world. Through deep partnerships with customers, GF delivers differentiated, power-efficient and high-performance solutions for high-growth markets. With global manufacturing operations across the U.S., Europe and Asia, GF is a trusted and holistic technology partner for customers around the world. GF’s talented, global team remains focused every day on security, longevity, and sustainability. For more information, visit www.gf.com.
Summary of Role:
The RF Product Manager is responsible for the profitability and growth of GlobalFoundries’ RF technology portfolio, including RF SOI, SiGe BiCMOS, RF GaN, and related wireless connectivity solutions. This role drives the business strategy, commercial success, and customer adoption of the portfolio and serves as a key interface between customers, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, and executive leadership.
The RF Product Manager develops and executes product and market strategies, evaluates customer requirements, analyzes competitive positioning, drives design-win activities, and manages product lifecycle execution from concept through high-volume manufacturing. This position requires a strong combination of semiconductor technical knowledge, business acumen, financial analysis, strategic thinking, and customer engagement skills.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Own the profitability and growth of the RF GaN business line and support the broader RF technology portfolio.
- Define and execute product-line strategies to achieve revenue, profitability, market-share, and customer-adoption objectives.
- Develop and implement programs and strategies that support business and financial objectives.
- Develop and maintain technology and product roadmaps aligned with customer requirements, market trends, and business objectives.
- Identify target customers and build and strengthen strategic customer and external partner relationships.
- Identify, prioritize, and drive strategic customer engagements, design wins, and business growth opportunities across target RF markets.
- Lead business-case development, including TAM/SAM analysis, revenue forecasting, ROI assessment, and investment prioritization.
- Partner across Product Development, Technology Development, Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales, and Finance to support successful product execution and commercialization.
- Establish product positioning, value propositions, pricing strategies, and go-to-market plans.
- Analyze competitive offerings, technology trends, and market dynamics to identify opportunities for differentiation and growth.
- Support customer meetings, executive reviews, roadmap discussions, technical workshops, and business negotiations.
- Monitor product financial performance, including bookings, revenue, gross margin, wafer demand, pricing, and capacity requirements.
- Drive product lifecycle management, including product introduction, qualification, customer ramp, and end-of-life planning.
- Provide business updates, forecasts, and strategic recommendations to executive leadership.
- Collaborate with ecosystem partners, EDA vendors, IP providers, and other external organizations to strengthen the RF technology portfolio.
- Ensure compliance with applicable internal policies and legal requirements across areas of responsibility.
Other Responsibilities:
- Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.
Required Qualifications:
- Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Semiconductor Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in semiconductor product management, marketing, business development, product engineering, technology development, or related technical leadership roles.
- Demonstrated understanding of RF semiconductor technologies, including RF SOI, SiGe BiCMOS, RF GaN, CMOS, or related wireless technologies.
- Experience developing business cases, financial models, market forecasts, and long-range strategic plans.
- Strong customer-facing experience with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and executive audiences.
- Experience working across cross-functional organizations in a global environment.
- Ability to travel up to 25% domestically and internationally.
- Strong analytical, presentation, communication, and project management skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in RF devices, circuits, or systems; MBA is a plus.
- Experience in wireless connectivity, cellular infrastructure, SATCOM, aerospace and defense, Wi-Fi, mobile RF front-end, optical communications, or high-speed communications markets.
- Experience designing and characterizing RF devices and circuits.
- Experience with foundry business models and semiconductor manufacturing operations.
- Knowledge of semiconductor cost modeling, pricing strategy, and product portfolio management.
- Experience supporting executive business reviews and strategic planning activities.
- Familiarity with RF system concepts, device technologies, and market analysis tools.
- Demonstrated success driving customer design wins and commercial negotiations.
- Experience using business intelligence and analytics tools.
- Demonstrated ability to drive design-win and revenue-growth objectives.
- Ability to manage product profitability and support market-share growth.
- Ability to influence product and technology roadmaps to strengthen competitive positioning.
- Demonstrated ability to develop strong customer relationships and long-term strategic engagements.
- Experience successfully launching and ramping new products or technology platforms.
- Ability to provide accurate business forecasts and strategic recommendations to support executive decision-making.
Expected Salary Range
$167,000.00 - $275,000.00The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.
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