Product Line Director - Optical Transceivers

Your Job

Smiths Interconnect, a Molex company, is seeking a Global Director of Product Line Management (PLM) to lead a high-performing global team responsible for rugged embedded fiber optic transceiver product lines serving aerospace, defense, and space markets.

This role has full ownership of product line strategy and P&L performance and plays a critical role in driving profitable growth, technology leadership, and long-term value creation across mission-critical optical communications portfolios.

Our Team

You will lead a distributed Product Line Management organization and partner closely with Engineering, Sales, Operations, Finance, and Marketing to align strategy, execution, and customer value across global markets.

What You Will Do

• Own full product line P&L accountability, delivering revenue growth, gross margin expansion, and operating income targets

• Define and execute global product line strategy aligned with business objectives and long-term market opportunities

• Develop and maintain product roadmaps, business plans, and go-to-market strategies for current and next-generation products

• Identify and evaluate growth opportunities across aerospace, defense, and space segments, including new applications and adjacencies

• Lead market, customer, and competitive intelligence to guide portfolio optimization and investment decisions

• Translate customer and market requirements into differentiated, ruggedized optical solutions in partnership with Engineering

• Actively manage the full product lifecycle, from concept through launch, production, and end-of-life decisions

• Partner with Sales and Marketing to develop product positioning, messaging, pricing strategies, and sales enablement tools

• Engage directly with key customers and strategic prospects, serving as the voice of the customer across the organization

• Lead, develop, and mentor a global PLM team while strengthening organizational capability and succession

• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve execution, operational alignment, and customer outcomes

• Support strategic initiatives, including partnerships, acquisitions, and other inorganic growth opportunities

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution

• Experience owning and managing product line P&L responsibility

• Experience leading product management or product line teams in aerospace, defense, space, or other high-reliability markets

• Working knowledge of electrical and/or optical systems used in complex, mission-critical applications

• Experience collaborating across Engineering, Sales, Operations, and Marketing to deliver business results

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally, up to 50%

What Will Put You Ahead

• MBA and/or technical degree

• Experience with ruggedized fiber optic transceivers or optical communications technologies

• Demonstrated success developing and executing global prod...