Senior Product Manager - Semiconductor

Working at Watlow

Watlow is a global technology and manufacturing leader who provides world class engineering expertise through innovative thermal products and systems, enabling our customers to thrive. We are making a positive impact every day as our solutions enrich the lives of people everywhere. We have been providing breakthrough thermal solutions for nearly a century. Our corporate values guide us uncompromisingly to always do the right thing, continually learn and improve, respect everyone, and lead with service and humility.

About the Role

Watlow is seeking a strategically oriented Senior Product Manager to lead the growth and innovation agenda for products that heat or condition fluids and gases. This role has a specific focus on thermal systems that enable next-generation semiconductor manufacturing. This leader will shape the product vision, define portfolio strategy, and drive execution across engineering, commercial, and operations teams.

This is a growth-oriented role focused on innovation, strategic evolution, and cross-functional leadership. It's an opportunity to own the full product lifecycle, build customer-centric solutions, and align Watlow's technology roadmap with market inflections facing advanced fabs and leading OEMs.

The Senior Product Manager will be a member of the segment leadership team and play a critical role in driving Watlow's 2030 growth ambition.

The ideal candidate will be based at one of our sites in Hillsboro, Oregon; San Jose, California; St. Louis, Missouri; Columbia, Missouri; Hannibal, Missouri; or Winona, Minnesota.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Roadmap Development: Define and evolve a multi-year product roadmap aligned with semiconductor capital equipment trends.
• Capability Planning: Identify future capability needs and integrate them with long-term product architecture.
• Financial Leadership: Create business cases for new product development, including NPV, IRR, and margin modeling.
• System Integration: Lead transition from stand-alone components to fully integrated system solutions across heating, sensing, control, and data insights.
• Customer Engagement: Drive voice-of-customer initiatives with OEMs and integrators to uncover unmet needs and translate insights into product requirements.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Orchestrate engineering, operations, supply chain, and sales teams through stage-gate processes and align on technical-commercial tradeoffs.
• Business Performance: Own category-level P&L, track portfolio performance, and partner with sales on go-to-market strategies, pricing, and value propositions.
• Technical Expertise & Thought Leadership: Serve as a credible expert in thermal and gas delivery technologies, supporting internal teams, partners, publications, and IP strategy.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or applied science; MBA preferred
• 4-8 years in product management, business leadership, or strategic marketing in high-tech B2B industrial sectors (preferably semiconductor or thermal systems)
• Proven success in managing complex, global product portfolios with multi-tiered stakeholder environments
• Strong fluency in technical commercialization, product line strategy, and stage-gate methodologies
• Experience developing platforms that integrate across mechanical, electrical and software

Desired Qualifications

• Comfortable engaging at the executive level with OEM and fab customers
• Analytical rigor with the ability to build financial models, track KPIs, and make data-informed investment decisions
• Strong storytelling, relationship-building and influencing skills, both internal and external, commercially and technically
• Experience working across geographies, especially in U.S., Europe, and Asia-based semiconductor hubs
• Background in global program or product management, with the ability to navigate diverse customer timelines, expectations, and cultural nuances
• Demonstrated success in leading, managing and developing others

Benefits: The Watlow Total Compensation Plan

The health, well-being and financial stability of you and your family is a high priority to us. The Watlow Total Rewards Plan includes competitive compensation and a full range of life and career enhancing benefits:

• Annual Incentive Program
• 401(k) plan that includes a company match on your contribution and an annual company contribution that is tied to company performance
• Wellness incentives
• Employee Personal Assistance Program
• Dental, medical, vision and short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Paid holidays, personal time, and vacation
• Parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement

Diversity & Inclusion

We proactively embrace diversity in all its dimensions across our company and cultivate a culture of inclusion and forward thinking that respects and reflects each team member's individual strengths, views, and experiences. Watlow takes pride in being an inclusive equal opportunity employer and considers for employment qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Please let us know confidentially if you need or require any special accommodations to participate in our recruiting process by emailing us at accommodations@Watlow.com.