Director, Product Line Management - (M6)

Who We Are

Applied Materials is the global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips – the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry, Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT. If you want to work beyond the cutting-edge, continuously pushing the boundaries of science and engineering to make possible the next generations of technology, join us to Make Possible® a Better Future. 

What We Offer

Salary:

$210,000.00 - $289,000.00

Location:

Santa Clara,CA

At Applied, we prioritize the well-being of you and your family and encourage you to bring your best self to work. Your happiness, health, and resiliency are at the core of our benefits and wellness programs. Our robust total rewards package makes it easier to take care of your whole self and your whole family. We’re committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits. 

You’ll also benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible—while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more about careers at Applied.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage all Service Products to optimize efficiencies, productivity, and velocity.
• Update Service Product Structures, going to market strategies, and scalability. 
• Manage AIx portfolio, growth, improvements, scalability with partner teams.
• Owns common modules roadmap and implementation post sPDP release, including scalability requirement and actions.
• Manage all changes to the service product after product release.
  • Whether driven by engineering, digital teams, quality, safety, customer demands, or supply obsolesce.
• Support or Lead as necessary effort and coordination between various intercompany groups (such as operations, TPS / Engineering and FSO) to achieve cost targets and improve operational metrics.
• Facilitates intercompany communication to align on product strategies, provide guidance on spare level contents, and restricted part orders, and overall field support. Facilitates alignment meeting for product roadmap and market proliferation.
• Support Partner teams with technical feedback, field metrics, and improvement strategies.
• Manage strategic vendor issues.
• Support installation and warranty programs.
• Implementation of component roadmaps including part obsolescence, replacements, alternative vendors, and cost reduction
• Technical improvement, reliability, commonality, excursion reductions, option reduction etc.
• Understands product change management (PCM) and control.
  • Unreleased product approval and control
  • ECO (Engineering Change Order) approval
  • Implementation of PCN (Part Change Notification), with Global Product Support
  • Manages field service related activities, reviews approves and filters all system feedback activities that will have customer impact       
  • Provides single point of information for Product options. 
• Initiate and drive CIPs (Continuous Improvement Programs) for the product where appropriate, within entitlement.
• Support for product prioritization and resource allocation.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years experience within specific Product family (Etch, CMP, etc)
• Bachelors degree or higher (preference in Engineering/Business/Mechanical)
   

Business Expertise

• Applies broad industry and commercial awareness to drive financial and operational performance across direct team, business units, sub-functions, and customers.
• Applies Service Product principals to grow product adoption and value.
   

Leadership

• Leads through subordinate managers of managers; executes segment/functional business plans and contributes to the development of segment/functional strategy.
• Applies appropriate levels of communication to effectively convey complex messages to executives, management, working levels, and customers.
   

Problem Solving