Director, Magnetics Development
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Director leading Molex’s magnetics product strategy, technology roadmaps, and new product development. Driving profitable growth across global data center, networking, industrial, and communications markets.
Responsibilities:
- Own and execute the long-term growth strategy for the ICMM magnetics product group
- Lead new product development from market opportunity and concept definition through development, customer qualification, launch and production ramp
- Define and maintain the magnetics product line strategy and roadmap
- Build and own technology roadmaps for integrated connector modules (ICM), discrete magnetics and adjacent magnetic technologies
- Establish senior technical and business relationships with strategic customers
- Translate customer platform roadmaps, market trends and emerging requirements into differentiated product concepts and development programmes
- Partner with Sales and Product Management to identify target customers, applications and design-in opportunities, and develop value propositions and go-to-market plans
- Own business cases covering target market, revenue, pricing, cost, investment, resources, risk and return
- Drive design-to-cost and manufacturing competitiveness while balancing performance, reliability, manufacturability, supply continuity and pricing
- Analyze competitors, alternative technologies and market dynamics to guide portfolio, make/buy/partner and investment decisions
- Build and develop a high-performing global magnetics development organization
- Ensure collaboration across Product Management, Engineering, Signal Integrity, Operations, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Quality, Marketing and regional Sales
- Develop relationships with PHY/IC vendors, technology partners, universities, suppliers and customer test organizations
- Create a pipeline of next-generation technologies and product concepts with readiness criteria and transition into NPD programs
- Provide transparent leadership on portfolio performance, development priorities, investment needs, technical risks and growth opportunities
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Physics, Materials Science or another relevant technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- Significant experience in technical product development within magnetics, interconnects, communications hardware, power electronics or an adjacent electronics industry
- Proven leadership of complex new product development from opportunity definition through qualification and production launch
- Demonstrated business experience connecting technology and product decisions to revenue growth, margin, investment and market position
- Experience developing product, technology or market strategies and converting them into executable roadmaps and priorities
- Ability to lead strategic customer discussions at technical and business levels and translate customer needs into product requirements and commercial opportunities
- Strong cross-functional leadership, communication, analytical and influencing skills in a global organisation
- Ability to make sound trade-offs among customer value, technical performance, speed, cost, quality, risk and manufacturability
- Direct experience in Ethernet magnetics, integrated connector modules (ICM), discrete magnetics, transformers, common-mode chokes or related magnetic components is advantageous
- Knowledge of the magnetics market, major customers, competitors, suppliers, technology trends and industry ecosystem is preferred
- Experience with Ethernet architectures, PHY interfaces, PoE requirements and system-level electrical performance
- Established relationships with strategic OEM, ODM, semiconductor/PHY or networking customers and ecosystem partners
- Experience managing a product line or business with responsibility for growth, profitability, portfolio choices and investment prioritisation
- Experience developing global engineering or product organizations and attracting/developing strong technical talent
- Experience with high-volume, cost-competitive Asian electronics manufacturing and supply chains
- Master's degree in an engineering, science or business discipline is preferred
Benefits:
- Variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Health savings accounts
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment (ADD) insurance
- Disability insurance
- Retirement benefits
- Paid vacation/time off
- Educational assistance
- May include infertility assistance
- May include paid parental leave
- May include adoption assistance
- Flexible work environment
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