Global Product Manager

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Molex is hiring an experienced Global Product Manager to support our High-Speed Backplane, NPC products within our Enterprise segment. This role is pivotal to shaping data center and enterprise networking technologies at 112G and 224G+ silicon protocol speeds.

This person will own the product line and work with global customers, partners, and internal business partners to ensure that we develop and manage existing products to achieve sustainable revenue/margin growth and best return of investments. This role has a global reach and will work closely with big data and hyperscale customers, sales, and engineering teams to meet our customers’ needs by providing high-tech leading-edge technologies that are critical for the data superhighways existence in an ever-changing world. You will also ensure that the product and marketing efforts are tailored to support Molex's overall mission, strategy, and goals. Success in this role means becoming the trusted “go-to” contact for key customers and appropriately planning and seeing assignments through to completion with minimal direction, providing leadership to other team members, presenting technical information, meeting project schedules, managing risks, closing business with customers, and achieving profitable growth for the organization.

Our Team

At Molex, we create connections for life by combining innovation, engineering excellence, and superior customer experience. With presence in 40+ countries, we serve diverse markets such as data communications, consumer electronics, automotive, medical, and more.

What You Will Do

• Lead the development and execution product strategy for global hyperscale customers, including roadmap, pricing, positioning, and portfolio management.
• Own the full product lifecycle: define requirements from customer feedback, market trends, and technical advancements; drive on-time, on-budget product launches.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with customer’s Engineering teams, conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify new growth opportunities, emerging trends, and technology gaps.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify new growth opportunities, emerging trends, and technology gaps.
• Drive go-to-market strategies, including sales enablement and marketing collateral development, to promote new technologies and expand market penetration.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams including Product Design Engineering, Signal Integrity, DFM, Manufacturing, Quality, Sales, and Program Management to ensure alignment and successful execution.
• Lead and mentor project teams by setting clear goals, managing risks, resolving issues, and adhering to project schedules.
• Develop business cases and secure leadership buy-in for new product development and capacity expansions aligned with customers and broader data communications market needs.
• Track product performance and market shifts, recommending product enhancements or portfolio adjustments to sustain competitive advantage and profitable growth.
• Represent Molex externally by visiting customer sites, global manufacturing locations, and participating in industry forums as needed.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing or comparable experience in the field.
• Previous experience as a Product Manager, Sales, Product Design Engineer or similar role, with a focus on high-speed interconnect products in the data center or enterprise networking industries. 
• A minimum of 6+ years of experience within the Datacom Market.
• A minimum of 4+ years of sales experience calling on Datacom accounts.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influence without direct authority, driving complex projects with minimal oversight in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Willingness and ability to travel globally as required.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Master’s degree in technical or business discipline.
• Experience negotiating and working with contract manufacturers and electronics market OEMs.
• Understanding silicon protocols and experience of high speeds such as 112g and 224g.
• Knowledge of business dynamics and vendor relationships in the hyperscale market, especially managing partnerships with chip vendors.
• Hands-on experience with SAP.

For this role, we anticipate paying $130,000 - $150,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).

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