Sr./Principal Product Planner

About the Role

As part of Altera's HW Engineering organization, the Product Planning Group plays a key role in partnering and influencing strategic deliverables throughout the organization.

The Product Planning role requires a combination of technical expertise, business acumen, organizational understanding and networking capabilities. The Product Planning runs certain strategic processes, visits customers, collaborates with Sales, the Business Management group, Architects and influences the organization via these processes. Activities include driving planning processes, competitive analysis, market analysis, and participating in strategic task forces. This specific role will focus on a core component of FPGA - Hard Processor System (HPS) and its enablement

Key Responsibilities:

• Own Roadmap for Hard Processor Subsystem (HPS) and NOC, including prioritization, customer validation and communication of the roadmap both within and outside of Altera

• Lead cross functional team responsible for establishing and maintaining the Plan of Record for HPS products and NoC.  The team includes Planners, Architects, Engineering, Marketing, and Applications Engineering to drive your product from concept through mass production. 

• Assist in defining embedded software feature and performance targets to meet customer needs

• Lead, participate and contribute into corresponding core team and represent Product Planning in relevant forums

• Understand system level architecture, gather customer and Altera business partners requirements, MRD(s) from internal stakeholders and synthesize these into structured Product Requirements Document (PRD)

• Network and coordinate with Business Stakeholders and key partners to continuously drive customer requirements into the product definitions

Desired Competencies:

• Leadership - influences, inclusiveness, defines and drive decisions in a proactive, assertive manner, ability to articulate ideas and concepts in a compelling and targeted manner to promote change

• Presence and Communications - can create and facilitate engagement and dialogue and open communication in tense situations, and can communicate goals and plans to critical project stakeholders

• Self-starter - Comfortable driving unchartered, high paced programs with limited oversight

• Highly analytical - Data driven and possess strong problem-solving skills, can structure complicated issues and find creative solutions to business challenges

• Strong interpersonal skills - can bring difficult discussions to the table and arbitrate different viewpoints effectively, not afraid to speak up to ensure success of program and call out dysfunctionalities

• Business acumen - understands business and technical challenges and landscape, strong technical acumen with background on vertical markets and FPGA solutions

Salary Range 

The pay range below is for Bay Area California only. Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.  

$159,700 - $231,250 USD 

We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. 

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Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's or Masters or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 10+ years of relevant Embedded Processors, Embedded design, product planning/management, customer support or technical marketing experience inclusive of:

• Experience with Embedded development flows, ARM ecosystem, firmware development

• Experience interacting with customers

Preferred Qualifications

• 15+ years of total experience in a semiconductor or related role (ie. related to FPGA, ASIC, HW, SW, EDA etc.)

• Knowledge in FPGA architecture and FPGA development methodology

• Experience in architecting FPGA based solutions for an end market application

• Proven track record of driving successful innovation products and influencing product strategy

• Proven track record of leading cross functional teams