Senior Software Product Manager

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 customers 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. 
• Translate hardware capabilities into compelling software value propositions for fab customers. 

Agile Delivery & Execution 

• Operate as the product owner within Agile teams maintaining a prioritized outcome-oriented backlog and clear acceptance criteria. 
• Partner with engineering UX QA and DevOps to ship high-quality releases on a predictable cadence. 
• Balance discovery and delivery keep the team running fast on committed work while continuously validating what comes next. 

Go-to-Market & Cross-Functional Leadership 

• Partner with Sales Application Engineering Marketing and Support to launch features enable the field and drive adoption. 
• Serve as the credible product voice with customers partners and internal executives including roadmap reviews and strategic account engagements. 

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications 

• 7 years of product management experience including 3 years at a senior level in B2B software. 

• Demonstrated track record of growing existing products through innovation not just managing a backlog but moving the needle on adoption expansion and customer outcomes. 

• AI-first product thinking: experience scoping shipping and scaling AI/ML-powered capabilities in a B2B software product. 

• Strong working knowledge of Agile delivery Design Thinking and Lean Startup methodologies and the judgment to know when to apply each. 

• Excellent customer discovery written communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and executive audiences. 

• Comfort working closely with hardware/firmware/sensor teams and translating physical-world data into software value. 

• Positive energetic growth-oriented mindset; thrives in ambiguity and brings clarity optimism and momentum to the team. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Direct experience with the semiconductor manufacturing process (front-end fab operations process control equipment data) Fault Detection and Classification (FDC) experience strongly preferred. 

• Familiarity with industry standards and data ecosystems such as SEMI standards SECS/GEM EDA (Interface A) MES integration and time-series sensor data at scale. 

• Experience launching products that combine on-premise edge and cloud deployment models in regulated or high-availability environments. 

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science Physics or a related technical field; advanced degree or MBA a plus. 

Additional Information :

The expected salary range for this position is between $120000 and $160000 annually.  The actual compensation will be determined based on experience location and other factors permitted by addition INFICON employees are eligible for a profit-sharing bonus with a target of 10% as well as 401K match up to 8% (vesting schedule).

INFICON provides a dynamic work environment that promotes diversity equity and inclusion. Our employees experience ongoing green initiatives flexible work hours and a variety of health and wellness programs.

INFICONs forward-thinking approach offers countless opportunities to design support and manufacture a diverse product portfolio that expands globally. Our Lean and Agile work environment offers competitive compensation relocation assistance a discretionary bonus and generous employee benefits; major medical dental health vision 401K vacation and sick time tuition reimbursement and more!

INFICON is committed to ensuring that our online application process provides an equal opportunity to all job seekers that apply without regard to race religion ethnicity national origin citizenship gender age protected veteran status disability status genetic information sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic. A notice describing Federal equal employment opportunity laws is available here to reaffirm this commitment.   Any contact that would like to request a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application process should contact .

INFICON Inc. strictly complies with all aspects of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) including those sections dealing with deemed exports to foreign nationals.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time