Director of Product Management

Onto Innovation is a leader in process control, combining global scale with an expanded portfolio of leading-edge technologies that include: 3D metrology spanning the chip from nanometer-scale transistors to micron-level die-interconnects; macro defect inspection of wafers and packages; metal interconnect composition; factory analytics; and lithography for advanced semiconductor packaging. Our breadth of offerings across the entire semiconductor value chain helps our customers solve their most difficult yield, device performance, quality, and reliability issues.

Onto Innovation strives to optimize customers’ critical path of progress by making them smarter, faster and more efficient.
** Job Summary & Responsibilities
** ONTO Innovation is seeking a Director of Product Management to lead the strategy, business performance, and lifecycle management of advanced semiconductor inspection solutions supporting Advanced Packaging and Front-End Wafer Processing applications.

This is a Director-level Individual Contributor role responsible for owning the commercial and technical success of a product line. The successful candidate will serve as the business leader for their product portfolio, defining strategy, managing product profitability, driving roadmap execution, and ensuring successful customer adoption. This individual will work across engineering, project management, sales, service, operations, finance, and executive leadership to deliver differentiated solutions that address critical semiconductor manufacturing challenges.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong business acumen and is equally comfortable discussing inspection algorithms, optical architectures, and semiconductor process challenges with engineers and customers as they are discussing revenue growth, market strategy, and investment priorities with executive leadership.  
** Key Responsibilities
**** Product Strategy & Business Leadership
*** Own the overall business performance of assigned product lines, including revenue, gross margin, market share, and customer satisfaction.
* Develop and maintain multi-year product roadmaps aligned with customer technology needs, industry trends, and company growth objectives.
* Lead annual strategic planning activities, including market assessments, competitive analysis, technology investment recommendations, and long-range business planning.
* Define product positioning, value propositions, and differentiation strategies.
* Develop business cases for new products, feature enhancements, and technology investments.
* Monitor product performance and market dynamics to identify growth opportunities and strategic risks.
** P&L Ownership & Financial Management
*** Own product-line P&L performance and accountability.
* Develop, product growth plans, and gross margin improvement initiatives.
* Establish annual operating plans, Headcount and needs and investment priorities.
* Partner with Finance to develop budgets, track performance against plan, and implement corrective actions as needed.
* Evaluate ROI for development projects, customer-specific investments, and strategic initiatives.
* Drive pricing, cost reduction, and profitability initiatives throughout the product lifecycle.
** Customer & Market Engagement
*** Partner with product marketing, developing the roadmap, customer priorities and engagements.
* Serve as the primary product advocate with customers, sales teams, and executive leadership.
* Build relationships with leading semiconductor manufacturers, foundries, memory companies, and OSATs.
* Lead customer roadmap discussions, technology reviews, executive briefings, and strategic planning sessions.
* Gather customer requirements and translate them into actionable product…