SMTS Product Manager - Global Tapeout and Mask Organization
GlobalFoundries · Austin · $118,000–$210,000 (stated in the posting)
About GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries (GF) is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world's most inspired technology companies. With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GF makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets. For more information, visit www.gf.com.
Summary of Role
As a Product Manager, you will lead the strategy, roadmap, and business ownership of critical tapeout engineering capabilities that support product configuration, design-data validation, and manufacturing readiness. These capabilities sit at the intersection of customer design enablement, tapeout engineering, and semiconductor manufacturing and ensure products are accurately defined, validated, and prepared for successful production. You will partner with Product Lines, manufacturing fabs, and Customer Sales to build roadmaps that modernize tapeout workflows and deliver a seamless customer experience.
Essential Responsibilities
Global Product Validator (GPV) design data verification tool, before and during tapeout to check customer design content against the expected manufacturing configuration. Global Product Configurator (GPC)
is product configuration capability that captures the technology, process, and product options
- Own the product strategy, roadmap, and release priorities for product configuration and design-data verification capabilities, partnering with Product Lines, Sales, Manufacturing, Tapeout Engineering, and IT stakeholders.
- Ensure seamless integration of configuration and verification processes, maintaining a single source of truth from customer order definition through tapeout and manufacturing execution.
- Drive improvements in data quality, configuration governance, and validation controls to reduce setup errors, verification mismatches, and downstream escalations.
- Translate business, technology, and manufacturing requirements into scalable product capabilities, automated rules, and user-centric workflows.
- Enable new technology nodes, products, and manufacturing offerings by ensuring configuration options and verification methodologies are accurately modeled and validated prior to customer deployment.
- Improve platform usability, performance, automation, and scalability to accelerate customer onboarding, design verification, and tapeout readiness.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize enhancements, manage product backlogs, and deliver solutions that improve operational efficiency and customer experience.
- Establish and track key performance indicators, including configuration accuracy, verification coverage, escape prevention, respin risk reduction, tapeout cycle time, and user adoption.
- Serve as the primary business owner and subject matter expert for product configuration and design-data verification solutions, ensuring alignment with strategic business and manufacturing objectives.
- Responsible to create the features required for product enhancement and transformation, perform product functionality testing and collaborate for the training needs.
Leadership Competencies
- Strong people leadership and talent development mindset
- Execution-focused with high accountability standards
- Ability to translate technical complexity into executive-level insights
- Confident decision-making and escalation judgment
- Collaborative, calm under pressure, and outcomes-oriented
Other Responsibilities
- Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety, and Security requirements and programs
- Other tasks as assigned by manager / supervisor
Required Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering (Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field)
- Experience: 12+ years of experience in semiconductor operations, product management, data management, or a closely related field
- Experience owning software or data products end to end, from roadmap through release
- Working knowledge of semiconductor design data, DMs, PDKs, mask layers and tapeout flows, or a demonstrated ability to come up to speed quickly in a technical manufacturing domain
- Proven ability to lead through ambiguity and influence across technical and non-technical stakeholder groups
- Strong written and verbal communication, planning, and organizational skills, with a bias toward continuously improving system solutions, documentation, and operating procedures
- Strong planning & organizational skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in electrical engineering, chemical engineering, computer science or a related field.
- Project management skills - i.e., the ability to innovate and execute on solutions that matter; the ability to navigate ambiguity
- 13+ years' experience in semiconductor operations / product & data management, tapeout flows, and technical aptitude in a manufacturing setting
Expected Salary Range
$118,000.00 - $210,000.00The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at usaccommodations@gf.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.
An offer with GlobalFoundries is conditioned upon the successful completion of pre-employment conditions, as applicable, and subject to applicable laws and regulations.
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