Senior Software Product Manager
Senior Product Manager at INFICON (East Syracuse, on-site) owning the vision, strategy, and roadmap for its semiconductor Fault Detection and Classification (FDC) software, using an AI-first approach and partnering closely with sensor/hardware teams. Requires 7+ years of B2B product management, Agile delivery, and AI/ML product experience.
- Compensation
- $120K–$160K / yr
- Location
- East Syracuse, United States
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Product
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 7+ years product management experience, including 3+ years at senior level, in B2B software
- Track record of growing existing products through innovation (adoption, expansion, customer outcomes)
- AI-first product thinking: experience scoping, shipping, and scaling AI/ML-powered B2B capabilities
- Strong working knowledge of Agile delivery, Design Thinking, and Lean Startup
- Excellent customer discovery, written communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Comfort working closely with hardware/firmware/sensor teams and translating physical-world data into software value
- Positive, energetic, growth-oriented mindset; thrives in ambiguity
Nice to have
- Direct experience with semiconductor manufacturing (fab operations, process control, equipment data); FDC experience strongly preferred
- Familiarity with SEMI standards, SECS/GEM, EDA (Interface A), MES integration, and time-series sensor data at scale
- Experience launching products combining on-premise, edge, and cloud deployment in regulated or high-availability environments
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or related technical field; advanced degree or MBA a plus
Full description
We are hiring a Senior Software Product Manager to lead the next chapter of growth for our semiconductor software portfolio, with a primary focus on Fault Detection and Classification (FDC). This is a high-impact role for an AI-first product leader who thrives at the intersection of advanced manufacturing, sensor hardware, and modern B2B software. You will own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for innovative solutions that solve real, costly problems for our customers on the fab floor — and you will partner closely with our hardware and sensor teams to deliver experiences that no software-only competitor can match.
You bring senior-level product judgment, an energetic and positive mindset, and a relentless focus on customer outcomes. You operate fluently in Agile delivery, ground your thinking in Design Thinking and Lean Startup principles, and treat AI not as a feature but as a foundational capability that reshapes how products are built and how customers extract value.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Roadmap
- Own the vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap for one or more software products in the semiconductor FDC space.
- Drive growth of existing products through innovative, differentiated capabilities — particularly those enabled by AI and machine learning.
- Define and track product KPIs tied to customer outcomes (yield, uptime, time-to-detection, time-to-root-cause) and business outcomes (ARR, expansion, retention).
Customer Discovery & Problem Framing
- Spend significant time with process engineers, equipment engineers, integration engineers, and fab IT to deeply understand workflows, pain points, and unmet needs.
- Apply Design Thinking to frame problems from the customer's perspective before jumping to solutions.
- Use Lean Startup methods — hypotheses, MVPs, and validated learning — to de-risk bets and accelerate the path from idea to customer value.
AI-First Product Development
- Champion an AI-first approach: identify where AI/ML meaningfully improves detection, classification, prediction, and decision support over traditional rule-based methods.
- Partner with data science and engineering to scope ML use cases, define data requirements, and design for explainability, trust, and operator adoption in a manufacturing setting.
- Make pragmatic build/buy/partner decisions across the AI stack.
Sensor & Hardware Integration
- Work directly with sensor hardware and instrumentation teams to ensure software products fully leverage upstream signal quality, sampling, and metadata.
- Influence sensor product roadmaps where software-side requirements (data fidelity, latency, edge processing, protocols) unlock meaningful customer value.