Director, Magnetics Development

Your Job

The Director - Magnetics Development will lead the strategic and technical development of the ICMM magnetics business, with accountability for driving profitable growth through differentiated products, strong customer engagement and disciplined technology development.

The role combines technical leadership with commercial ownership, translating market and customer needs into product line strategy, technology roadmaps and executable new product development programs.

This leader will operate at the intersection of engineering, product management and the customer.

The successful candidate will bring a strong technical foundation together with business judgement, market awareness and the ability to build alignment across global functions.

Existing knowledge of magnetics markets, technologies, customers and the competitive landscape is strongly preferred.

Our Team

ICMM develops interconnect, cable, memory and magnetics solutions for global data centre, cloud, networking, industrial and communications markets.

The Magnetics Development leader will work closely with Product Management, Sales, Engineering, Signal Integrity, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Quality and Operations, and will engage directly with customers, semiconductor/PHY ecosystem partners, suppliers and manufacturing partners.

What You Will Do


* Own and execute the long-term growth strategy for the ICMM magnetics product group, with clear focus on profitable revenue growth, market share expansion and sustainable competitive advantage.


* Lead new product development across the magnetics portfolio, from market opportunity and concept definition through development, customer qualification, launch and production ramp.


* Define and maintain the magnetics product line strategy and roadmap, prioritising investments based on market attractiveness, customer demand, technology trends, competitive position, profitability and ICMM capabilities.


* Build and own the technology roadmap for integrated connector modules (ICM), discrete magnetics and adjacent magnetic technologies, ensuring ICMM develops the capabilities required for future customer architectures.


* Establish strong senior technical and business relationships with strategic customers.

Serve as a key interface for roadmap discussions, early architecture engagement, product definition and development priorities.


* Translate customer platform roadmaps, market trends and emerging requirements into differentiated product concepts and actionable development programmes.


* Partner with Sales and Product Management to identify target customers, applications and design-in opportunities, and develop winning value propositions and go-to-market plans.


* Own the business case discipline for new developments, including target market, expected revenue, pricing, cost, investment, resource requirements, risk and return.


* Drive design-to-cost and manufacturing competitiveness from the beginning of prod...