The Product Line Manager for Optical Engines will define product strategy, manage customer engagement, lead cross-functional teams, and track product performance metrics to drive the success of the optical engine platform.
Product Line Manager (PLM) – Optical Engines
Ranovus is a leading provider of high-capacity photonics-based interconnect solutions that enable scale-up and scale-out compute networks for AI and cloud infrastructure. Our ODIN® optical engine platform combines advanced silicon photonics, high-speed electronics, lasers, and packaging technologies to deliver multi-terabit/second connectivity with industry-leading energy efficiency.
We are seeking a Product Line Manager (PLM) to own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for our next-generation multi-terabit optical engines.
Key Responsibilities
- Product Strategy & Roadmap
- Define and execute the product roadmap for high-capacity optical engines (100G–200G/lane, multi-terabit systems).
- Anticipate customer needs and align products to Hyperscaler, AI/ML infrastructure, and networking roadmaps.
- Work with executive leadership to set pricing, positioning, and go-to-market strategy.
- Customer & Market Engagement
- Act as the primary interface with hyperscalers, networking OEMs, and semiconductor partners.
- Collect and translate customer requirements into product features and specifications.
- Build business cases, market analyses, and competitive positioning for product decisions.
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- Drive collaboration across engineering, sales, operations, and executive teams to deliver on time and within budget.
- Define MRDs (Market Requirement Documents) and PRDs (Product Requirement Documents).
- Ensure seamless new product introduction (NPI) and lifecycle management.
- Performance & Metrics
- Track KPIs across revenue, margins, adoption rate, and customer satisfaction.
- Identify opportunities for differentiation in power efficiency, bandwidth density, and cost per bit.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field (Master’s or MBA preferred).
- 5+ years of experience in product management, business development, or technical marketing in optical interconnects, photonics, or semiconductor industries.
- Strong technical understanding of silicon photonics, optical engines, pluggables, or Co-Packaged Optics (CPO).
- Proven success managing multi-terabit interconnect products or high-speed networking technologies (Ethernet, PCIe, InfiniBand, etc.).
- Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills with ability to engage C-level and technical stakeholders.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a track record of driving new product adoption in emerging markets.
Top Skills
Ethernet
Infiniband
Optical Engines
Pcie
Silicon Photonics
RANOVUS Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CAN Office
11 Hines Rd, 101, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2K 2X1
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