Director of Product Marketing

Responsibilities

MaxLinear is seeking a Director of Product Marketing to lead one or more of our broadband product lines (based on your experience), including Fiber, Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), and/or Wi-Fi platforms. This role is pivotal in driving roadmap definition, lifecycle management, and go-to-market success by partnering with Engineering, Operations, Sales/Business Development, and Support to deliver differentiated solutions for Tier-1 operators and OEMs. In this role, you will focus on the following:

• Product Strategy & Roadmap
  • Define and maintain a multi-year roadmap for assigned platforms and Chips, including SoCs, reference designs, and software stacks
  • Author and update Marketing Requirements Documents (MRDs) and secure approvals and kick-off programs
  • Align roadmap with operator requirements, standards evolution, and competitive positioning
  • Develop strategic relationships with partners delivering complementary products to enable full platform solutions
• Execution & Release Management
  • Own release readiness across hardware boards, platform software, and collateral
  • Drive planning with Program Management: unify feature backlog, resolve cross-train conflicts, and ensure feature breakdown with R&D
• Go-to-Market & Pricing
  • Define positioning, messaging, and pricing strategy for the platform
  • Develop Collateral, Golden Decks, and competitive analysis
  • Support customer presentations, proposals, and trade-show schedules
• Customer Programs & Design Wins
  • Partner with Business Development and Sales to qualify opportunities, manage RFx responses, and convert pipeline into design wins
  • Oversee lifecycle from design-win through production ramp, coordinating with CPM/AE and Operations
• Forecasting & Lifecycle- Work with Operations lifecycle notices (PCN/PDN) and ensure timely communication with Marcom and Supply Chain
• Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Collaborate with Engineering and Program Management for debug priorities and feature closure
  • Work with Operations and Finance on production ramp plans, cost models, and yield targets
  • Provide regular updates to executive management on roadmap and product changes
• Regular travel for customer meetings, standards events, and trade shows

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of Tier-1 operator requirements and one or more of the broadband technologies: Fiber, Wi-Fi, FWA
• Proven experience in product management or product marketing for communications / networking platforms
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills
• Engineering Experience highly preferred
• BS in Electrical Engineering or related  12 years of experience or MS / MBA  10 years of experience

Compensation and Benefits

MaxLinear has a Total Compensation philosophy which includes base salary and annual discretionary bonus eligibility and many positions also include stock-based compensation.

MaxLinear expects to offer a starting base salary within the range of:  $162,000 to $227,240 Annually

We offer competitive benefits designed to support employee health, welfare, and retirement and some highlights are:  health care benefits, 401k savings plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), and paid time off.

The actual starting base salary will be determined by the match to certain role-related criteria such as educational degree(s) or equivalent, relevant work experience, skillset needed for the role, and geographic location; this is not an all-inclusive list as some roles may require unique skills or experience.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on race, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

Company Overview

MaxLinear is a global, NASDAQ-traded company (MXL) where the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. We are a fabless system-on-chip product company, striving to improve the world’s communication networks for everyone through our highly integrated radio-frequency (RF), analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for access and connectivity, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi-market applications.

We hire the best people in the industry and engage them in some of the most exciting opportunities that connect the world we live in today. Our growth has come from innovative, bold approaches to solving some of the world’s most challenging communication technology problems in the most efficient and effective manner.

MaxLinear began by developing the world’s first high-performance TV tuner chip using standard CMOS process technology. Others said we couldn’t achieve the extremely high-performance requirements using CMOS, but we proved them wrong and achieved enduring global market leadership with our designs. Since then, we’ve developed a full line of products that drive 4G and 5G infrastructure; enable data center, metro and long-haul optical interconnects; bring 10Gbit to the home; power the IoT revolution; and enable robust and reliable communication in harsh industrial environments. Over the years, we’ve expanded through organic growth and through several acquisitions that have perfectly complemented our existing portfolio and enabled us to deliver complete end-to-end solutions in our target markets. One such example was the acquisition of Intel’s Home Gateway Platform Division that added Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and Broadband Gateway Processor SoC technology to our connected home portfolio creating a complete and scalable platform of connectivity and access solutions to fully address our customers’ needs.

Our headquarters are in Carlsbad, near San Diego, California. We also have major design centers in Irvine and San Jose, California; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore, India; Munich, Germany; Israel; and Singapore.

We have approximately 1,200 employees, a substantial majority of whom have engineering degrees and include masters and Ph.D. graduates from many of the premiere universities around the world. Our employees thrive on innovation, outstanding execution, outside-the-box thinking, nimbleness, and collaboration. Together, we form a high-energy business team that is focused on building the best and most innovative products on the market.

Salary : $162,000 - $227,240