As a Product Manager at Lam, you play a crucial role in defining the strategy, roadmap, and features of the product. You are both strategic and tactical. You will span the entire product life cycle, from definition and planning to production release, upgrades, and end-of-life. Your leadership skills will be vital in ensuring cross-functional collaboration across different departments to drive the success of the portfolio of products. With your expertise in both business and technical domains, you’ll bring the product vision to life for Lam and our customers.
A Senior Product Manager’s focus is 100% on the Product. They are the leader for all groups to align priorities, define objectives, drive decisions to meet product development needs, market objectives, and released product support requirements.
– The ideal candidate will have sound judgement and decision making capability, an inquisitive nature, demonstrated capacity to provide structure and guidance in a chaotic environment and the ability to work effectively across multiple organizations and levels of management. They must have the confidence and background to lead and challenge a team of highly technical and competent individuals. They must be able to understand and mentor the role of product manager to less experienced peers.
Consolidator of Product Roadmap / Strategy / Vision
– Collect & distill market / customer needs and Lam business objectives input from across organization leadership (Technology, Engineering, Product Support, Marketing, etc.) to define product roadmap and strategy.
Leaders of Product Strategy / Vision Communication
– Vision statement author, accountable for documenting business objectives and product requirements that form the basis for development / improvement programs, maintain living document under revision control throughout development & release process
– Drive vision into projects / programs supporting program/project manager in achieving project goals
– Roadmap: facilitate roundtable review of market, technology, and competitive trends leading to revision of product strategy / roadmap and organizational priorities
– Define implementation strategy for product enhancements, improvements and fixes. Communicate via Plan of Record (POR) to the development, operations, and customer accounts.
– Ensures that key product decisions adhere to the PS&DM and PDR Processes.
Driver of Product Development and Release Execution
– Champion utilization of the PDR process, drive the program/project team to address PDR requirements, product design/development trade-offs and associated risk decisions. Drive release of the product into Lean Manufacturing, Customer Service and the Order Fulfillment process.
