Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

About Applied

Applied Materials is the leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. Our expertise in modifying materials at atomic levels and on an industrial scale enables customers to transform possibilities into reality. At Applied Materials, our innovations make possible the technology shaping the future.

Our Team

This position is in the Product Management group within the semiconductor Process Diagnostics and Control (PDC) BU, which deals with metrology and wafer inspection on semiconductor wafers for process monitoring and control. The systems for enabling metrology and inspection are designed with state-of-the-art e-beam and optical imaging capabilities coupled with cutting edge image processing algorithms in order to detect and dispose nanometer size defects. The Product Management group is responsible to define the roadmap and the required content being developed so that short and long-term business requirements are met.

Your Opportunity

We are looking for a highly talented Product Manager responsible for translating customer requirements for defect control on advanced semiconductor nodes to critical performance requirements towards product roadmap. This is a highly visible role requiring interfacing with product and field marketing teams and collaboration with RnD teams to drive product development.

Roles and Responsibility

• Define product requirements documents (PRD) and MVP (MVP stands for Minimum Viable Product)

• Customer requests: process customer requests and design them to best fit our tool architecture

• Concept and Feasibility: Our product managers aspire for data driven decisions. As such, we collect the relevant data, analyze it using advanced methodologies, and conclude decisions which drive our roadmap to the best possible Return on Investment

• Act as central resource between field and internal RnD to drive feature development life cycle

• Application value: Value verification upon dev completion

• Field expert support: Act as a 3rd level support in their expertise domain, keeping us close to the customer and maintaining in-depth understanding of customer problems and needs

• Field beta: plan the content of the beta at first customers

Our Ideal Candidate

• Strong technical background

• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders across disciplines and geographies in matrix environment

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• More than 6 years of experience in hands-on semiconductor process, inspection and/or metrology domain is a must.

• Solid Data analysis skillset: statistical tests, distributions and data interpretation techniques, Python programing and data visualization tools like Tableau JMP or PowerBI

Qualifications

Minimum qualification: Masters in Technology in engineering discipline

Additional Qualifications:

Matlab, python scripting skills are a plus

Applied Materials is committed to diversity in its workforce including Equal Employment Opportunity for Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.