Senior Principal Product Manager – Software and Digital Platforms

About Analog Devices

Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) is a worldwide leader in semiconductors, connecting the physical and digital realms to power innovations at the Intelligent Edge. By integrating analog, digital, AI, and software technologies, ADI addresses challenges such as climate change, facilitates human connectivity, and supports progress in automation, mobility, healthcare, energy, and data centers. With revenues exceeding $11 billion in FY25, ADI enables today's innovators to advance beyond current possibilities.

Role Overview

The Senior Principal Product Manager for Software and Digital Platforms (SDP) is a senior-level contributor charged with shaping product definitions, translating market and business demands into actionable product requirements, and fostering coordination between business units, engineering, and program teams. This role acts as a critical technical and commercial bridge linking vertical market teams with software, digital, and AI development groups.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with marketing, engineering, and customers to translate software, digital, and AI business needs into clear product requirements focusing on "what" should be built and "why".
• Define product boundaries, use cases, feature priorities, and requirements for software and digital platforms ensuring technical validity, engineering validation, traceability, and verifiability through delivery.
• Partner closely with software, embedded, systems, and hardware engineering to refine requirements, balance tradeoffs, and design for usability, scalability, and reuse across different markets.
• Assist in roadmap creation and prioritization for software-enabled products and platform features, weighing customer demands, strategic significance, technical feasibility, and resource availability.
• Develop business cases including scoping, development effort estimation, cost considerations, lifecycle impact, and long-term platform reuse potential.
• Clarify the entire product lifecycle from concept to launch, support, and end-of-life, assuring readiness for release, sustained support, and customer adoption.
• Engage with customers and internal stakeholders to collect insights, assess product fit, and adjust product direction based on application demands, feedback, and competitive landscape.
• Align with program management and development teams during planning and execution, offering clear priorities, decision support, and transparency regarding roadmap changes, risks, and dependencies.
• Shape platform strategies by spotting opportunities to standardize software components, enhance developer experience, and expand embedded software reuse across product lines.
• Work with vertical business unit applications, marketing, and enablement to guarantee product requirements, positioning, documentation, and customer-facing materials reflect the precise value propositions and technical features.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Coordinate with vertical business unit application and engineering teams to integrate early customer experience, evaluation flows, and readiness into product plans.
• Consult embedded software and systems teams to understand architecture choices, development tradeoffs, and validation needs informing product decisions.
• Support go-to-market readiness by ensuring product documentation, evaluation platforms, and customer materials align with roadmap and launch goals.
• Drive issue resolution and prioritization across development, application, and support teams throughout the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline; advanced degrees or MBA preferred.
• Over 10 years of experience in product management, systems engineering, applications engineering, or related roles supporting embedded products.
• Proven experience managing or defining products involving embedded software, firmware, or software-enabled hardware platforms.
• Practical knowledge of embedded software development methodologies, software lifecycle management, and interactions between firmware, drivers, middleware, hardware, and applications.
• Skilled in converting customer and market requirements into detailed product specifications and guiding cross-functional teams to execute effectively.
• Strong aptitude in technical and business judgment including evaluating tradeoffs, feature prioritization, and business case contribution.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management capabilities with the influence to guide engineering, business, and customers without direct authority.
• Insightful understanding of competitive landscape, customer workflows, and trends in embedded and digital software platforms.

Additional Information

Positions requiring access to technical data may be subject to export license approvals by US government agencies. Only US citizens, permanent residents, or protected individuals are exempt from this licensing review.

Analog Devices promotes equal opportunity employment, supporting all legally protected classes and fostering an inclusive workplace.

Employment Details

• Job type: Experienced professional
• Travel expected up to 25% of the time
• Shift: First shift, daytime hours
• Salary range expected: $184,030 to $266,485 annually, subject to factors like location, experience, and education
• This role is eligible for a discretionary performance-based bonus.
• Benefits include medical, vision, dental coverage, 401k, paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick leave), and other employee benefits.