Software Product Manager IV

Applied Materials

Confirmed live today High trust

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$161,000–$221,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
127 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today

Market check

Salary context

Competitive pay

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $200k
This role $191k
$142k most similar roles pay here $248k

This role pays less than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $177,250–$223,462 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $191k versus about $200k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About Applied Materials

Applied Materials is the world''s largest supplier of equipment, services, and software for the semiconductor and display industries, enabling the production of chips and advanced displays. Industry: Semiconductor Equipment

Applied Materials currently has 260 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $124,000–$171,000 across 180 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Applied Materials

At a glance

TL;DR · Software Product Manager IV

The Software Product Manager IV joins the Lab D&A team to lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of digital solutions for lab operations. This role focuses on driving automation, data integrity, and operational efficiency by transitioning fragmented legacy workflows into unified, scalable platforms. The manager chairs the product governance body to oversee change management, project prioritization, and risk mitigation while collaborating with solution architects and application development leads. Key responsibilities include conducting customer discovery with stakeholders, defining MVP scopes, and coordinating cross-functional teams across engineering, QA, and DevOps to ensure high-quality releases. The role requires expertise in cloud-native architectures including Azure, AWS, or GCP, as well as microservices and enterprise integration patterns. The work addresses the technical challenge of optimizing complex business processes and hardware execution capabilities within lab operations and metrology workflows.

What you'll do

  • Define and communicate the multi-year product vision and roadmap for digital lab operation applications.
  • Track key performance indicators related to automation, data integrity, cycle time, and user adoption.
  • Chair the governance body to manage project prioritization, change requests, and risk escalation.
  • Lead discovery sessions with stakeholders to design business-specific workflows and hardware execution capabilities.
  • Analyze and document end-to-end processes to improve operational efficiency and organizational goals.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality software releases are delivered on schedule.
  • Develop training plans and communication strategies to drive user adoption of new lab applications.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in product management, program management, enterprise systems, or related fields with progressive responsibility.
  • Proven experience with lab automation systems.
  • Familiarity with lab operations and process/metrology workflows.
  • Expertise collaborating on cloud-native architectures (Azure/AWS/GCP), microservices, and enterprise integration patterns.
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze, optimize, and document complex business processes with strong stakeholder engagement.

More like this

Similar roles

Software Product Manager

Anduril Industries

Costa Mesa, CA 16 days ago $166,000–$220,000
AI SDK API Firmware Hardware Geospatial Real-time Visualization RF Systems ISR Command and Control
5+ yrs exp

Expert Software Product Manager

HP Inc.

Palo Alto, CA 71 days ago
Agile JIRA Kanban Scrum Sprint Planning Lean Product Development Change Management Product Roadmap New Product Development Milestone-based Planning UX
7+ yrs exp

Internal Product Manager IV

Adobe

San Jose, CA 7 days ago
SaaS Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud APIs AI Analytics Product Telemetry Beta Programs Enterprise Software e-signature Workflows Customer Feedback Systems
5+ yrs exp

IT Product Manager

Abbott

Madison, WI 50 days ago $61,300–$122,700
Agile User Stories KPIs SOPs Calabrio Concur XTRAC Requirement Gathering
4+ yrs exp

Advanced Product Manager

Warner Bros. Discovery

Remote (UT) +1 59 days ago $122,500–$227,500
SQL Telemetry Live Operations Product Roadmap A/B Testing PRDs Monetization Cross-functional Leadership
7+ yrs exp Remote