Summary:
Celestica’s Hardware Product Solutions Team has an opening for a Product Line Manager for AI/ML Solutions. This individual must possess a strong understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning (DL), and Machine Learning (ML) solutions from the datacenters all the way out to the edge. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role working closely with multiple functional teams within Celestica to drive the development of platforms that help Enterprise, Service Provider, and Carrier customers transform their businesses using AI/ML technologies.
The ideal candidate has experience with hardware and software product management, understands the full product lifecycle (cradle to grave), and has strong program management experience with ongoing parallel projects. The candidate will own all commercial aspects of products and should possess strong analytical abilities and judgment, and be an active contributor in setting up... processes to increase the impact of strong product management practices. This opportunity requires excellent business, technical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Job Responsibilities:
- Keep abreast of new technologies, market trends, and customer requirements for AI/ML solutions.
- Strong knowledge of hardware accelerator technologies such as Servers, GPUs, DPUs, etc.
- Knowledge of open-source AI software toolkits, APIs and development frameworks such as TensorFlow, Spark ML, Torch, Caffe, and Scikit-learn.
- Drive Market Requirement Docs and Program Requirements Docs through creation, review, and approval.
- Support Product system architecture and product configuration definitions.
- Develop Business Cases to secure funding for new Celestica platforms.
- Lead technical RFI/RFQs and deliver cost-competitive and compelling technical proposals for customer opportunities.
- Determine market pricing for new platforms/solutions going to market.
- Track actual performance against business case plan.
- Responsible for the overall product P&L, including closed-loop analysis
- Drive cross-functional collaboration from key organizations (PMO, Marketing, Sales, Development, Aftermarket Services, Manufacturing, Quality, Account Mgmt, Pricing/Quoting, Legal, etc.)
- Review engineering change requests from development and customers
- Drive Value Engineering sessions to continuously reduce product costs
- Participate in all phase gate reviews for your products
- Provide key contribution of Product transfers (design and/or manufacturing)
Qualifications
- 10+ years of relevant product management experience at a Service Provider or Enterprise technology company
- Experience developing/launching products within the AI/ML segment.
- Experience leading product vision, go-to-market strategy, and product requirements.
- Experience managing strategic product roadmaps, and working with cross-functional teams.
- Entrepreneurship, positive attitude, ability, desire, and willingness to make an impact
- Excellent interpersonal, relationship building and communication skills (both verbal and written).
- Ability to adjust communication style based on the audience (from highly detailed to executive summary).
- Strong project management skills and experience, including managing internal and external stakeholders, and multiple launches and projects at once.
- Proven success in managing complex and multi-faceted hardware product programs with the ability to drive projects through to completion.
- Demonstrated ability to problem solve and ensure deadlines are met and expectations exceeded.
- Must thrive in a work-from-home environment.
- Recent experience in a fast-paced, multinational technology company.
Typical Education:
- BS in Engineering with a strong background in business and/or marketing
- MBA is preferred.
Travel:
- 20-25% travel (international and domestic when regular travel resumes
