Global Product Manager

Molex is hiring an experienced Global Product Manager to support our High-Speed Backplane, NPC products within our Enterprise segment. This role is pivotal to shaping data center and enterprise networking technologies at 112G and 224G+ silicon protocol speeds.

This person will own the product line and work with global customers, partners, and internal business partners to ensure that we develop and manage existing products to achieve sustainable revenue/margin growth and best return of investments. This role has a global reach and will work closely with big data and hyperscale customers, sales, and engineering teams to meet our customers’ needs by providing high-tech leading-edge technologies that are critical for the data superhighways existence in an ever-changing world.

You will also ensure that the product and marketing efforts are tailored to support Molex's overall mission, strategy, and goals. Success in this role means becoming the trusted “go-to” contact for key customers and appropriately planning and seeing assignments through to completion with minimal direction, providing leadership to other team members, presenting technical information, meeting project schedules, managing risks, closing business with customers, and achieving profitable growth for the organization.

At Molex, we create connections for life by combining innovation, engineering excellence, and superior customer experience. With presence in 40+ countries, we serve diverse markets such as data communications, consumer electronics, automotive, medical, and more.

• Lead the development and execution product strategy for global hyperscale customers, including roadmap, pricing, positioning, and portfolio management.
• Own the full product lifecycle: define requirements from customer feedback, market trends, and technical advancements; drive on-time, on-budget product launches.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with customer’s Engineering teams, conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify new growth opportunities, emerging trends, and technology gaps.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify new growth opportunities, emerging trends, and technology gaps.
• Drive go-to-market strategies, including sales enablement and marketing collateral development, to promote new technologies and expand market penetration.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams including Product Design Engineering, Signal Integrity, DFM, Manufacturing, Quality, Sales, and Program Management to ensure alignment and successful execution.
• Lead and mentor project teams by setting clear goals, managing risks, resolving issues, and adhering to project schedules.
• Develop business cases and secure leadership buy-in for new product development and capacity expansions aligned with customers and broader data communications market needs.
• Track product performance and market shifts, recommending product enhancements or portfolio adjustments to sustain competitive advantage and profitable growth.
• Represent Molex externally by visiting customer sites, global manufacturing locations, and participating in industry forums as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing or comparable experience in the field.
• Previous experience as a Product Manager, Sales, Product Design Engineer or similar role, with a focus on high-speed interconnect products in the data center or enterprise networking industries.
• A minimum of 6+ years of experience within the Datacom Market.
• A minimum of 4+ years of sales experience calling on Datacom accounts.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influence without direct authority, driving complex projects with minimal…