Senior Product Manager

Key Duties and Responsibilities
• Drive product strategy, planning, marketing as well as sales support activities for a specific line or area of the Business Unit's products
• Focus on go-to-market activities aimed at helping to achieve strategic revenue objectives
• Work closely with the customers and channel partners to evaluate and prioritize product changes and enhancements
• Provide research and insights into ongoing market trends/needs and articulate the findings in the form of product requirements
• Play proactive role in product planning and design to ensure the product is differentiated from competitors in the marketplace
• Work closely with Development teams to create realistic development plans and schedules
• Create written product specifications and requirements
• Work closely with technical ACE (ANSYS Customer Excellence) teams to gain product feedback and assess competitive threats
• Maintain close relationships with customers to remain aware of their needs and perspectives
• Evaluate and prioritize requests for product changes, enhancements, etc.
• Participate in producing technical white papers, application notes, product positioning presentations, and webinars as part of the GTM strategy
• Engage and facilitate solutions in any Pre-Sales situation as appropriate
• Function as a specialist/expert during customer visits and technical events as appropriate
• Provide quality assurance testing and feedback on new product features and design flows as necessary
• Provide training to Customer Excellence and Account Teams as necessary
• Travel Requirement: 25% locally and internationally.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience
• MS or Ph.D. in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, MS with 3 years' experience, or PhD with 1 years' experience
• Significant commercial experience with IC design, or support of EDA in the semiconductor field
• Ability to manage complex projects
• Excellent technical knowledge and significant commercial experience with EDA/CAD software tools particularly on custom layout, STA, Extraction-SPEF/DSPF and Spice enabling IC design, Analog Mixed Signal circuit design, RFIC design, PowerFET, PMIC, and conceptual knowledge of a specific domain (e.g. power integrity, signal integrity, ESD etc.)
• Proven track record of crafting robust and efficient code
• Solid TCL, Python programming skills
• Excellent communication skills, especially the ability to communicate business value of technical innovations

Preferred Qualifications and Skills
• Advanced degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, 8+ years of combined experience in engineering in semiconductor field, or technical sales
• Expert usage of Ansys Totem/Totem-SC, PathFinder/PathFinder-SC, RedHawk/RedHawk-SC and/or competitive products in the market
• Technical knowledge of circuit behavior, physical design, timing and noise analysis, or power noise analysis
• Experience leading projects and delivering high-quality support for large-scale commercial software
• Ability to translate business needs into development plans
• Ability to overcome obstacles and drive projects to completion
• Technical knowledge and experience with power modeling of ICs, IR drop analysis, thermal analysis, advanced process technology, ESD reliability analysis
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams and geographies, and to mentor junior engineers
• Prior experience in product management role

At Ansys, we know that changing the world takes vision, skill, and each other. We fuel new ideas, build relationships, and help each other realize our greatest potential. We are ONE Ansys. We operate on three key components: our commitments to stakeholders, our values that guide how we work together, and our actions to deliver results. As ONE Ansys, we are powering innovation that drives human advancement

Our Commitments:

• Amaze with innovative products and solutions
• Make our customers incredibly successful
• Act with integrity
• Ensure employees thrive and shareholders prosper

Our Values:

• Adaptability: Be open, welcome what's next
• Courage: Be courageous, move forward passionately
• Generosity: Be generous, share, listen, serve
• Authenticity: Be you, make us stronger

Our Actions:

• We commit to audacious goals
• We work seamlessly as a team
• We demonstrate mastery
• We deliver outstanding results

VALUES IN ACTION

Ansys is committed to powering the people who power human advancement. We believe in creating and nurturing a workplace that supports and welcomes people of all backgrounds; encouraging them to bring their talents and experience to a workplace where they are valued and can thrive.

Our culture is grounded in our four core values of adaptability, courage, generosity, and authenticity. Through our behaviors and actions, these values foster higher team performance and greater innovation for our customers.

We're proud to offer programs, available to all employees, to further impact innovation and business outcomes, such as employee networks and learning communities that inform solutions for our globally minded customer base.

WELCOME WHAT'S NEXT IN YOUR CAREER AT ANSYS

At Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary leaders across the globe. Collectively, we strive to change the world with innovative technology and transformational solutions. With a prestigious reputation in working with well-known, world-class companies, standards at Ansys are high — met by those willing to rise to the occasion and meet those challenges head on. Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology, empowering our customers to turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at a lower cost. Ready to feel inspired? Check out some of our recent customer stories, here and here.

At Ansys, it's about the learning, the discovery, and the collaboration. It's about the "what's next" as much as the "mission accomplished." And it's about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic direction and results that have, can, and do impact real people in real ways. All this is forged within a working environment built on respect, autonomy, and ethics.

CREATING A PLACE WE'RE PROUD TO BE
Ansys is an S&P 500 company and a member of the NASDAQ-100. We are proud to have been recognized for the following more recent awards, although our list goes on: Newsweek's Most Loved Workplace globally and in the U.S., Gold Stevie Award Winner, America's Most Responsible Companies, Fast Company World Changing Ideas, Great Place to Work Certified (China, Greece, France, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and U.K.).

For more information, please visit us at www.ansys.com

Ansys is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

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