Sr. Director Strategic Technology Initiatives

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San Jose, CA
179K-255K Annually
Senior level
3D Printing • Marketing Tech • Design
The Role
The Sr. Director of Strategic Technology Initiatives at Lumentum will lead the strategy for optical components and packaging, drive product definition and architecture, and engage with partners to innovate in high-speed optoelectronics. This role requires collaboration across teams to meet timing and cost requirements, balancing technical risks with financial returns.
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Lumentum Holdings is seeking an experienced engineer to drive our Advanced optical components, packaging, and advanced development module strategy.  In this critical role, you will define and lead the strategy on optical components (such as lasers, PDs, modulators), packaging (CoWoS, FoWLP, etc), and modules and connect this strategy Lumentums’ world class optoelectronics component and module teams.  You will work with our partners, customers, and internal teams, to define strategies that create differentiation along our product lines that meet timing, cost requirements, and customer expectations.  The successful candidate will also drive the initial product definition and product architecture making tradeoffs that balance technical risk with financial returns and time to market. 

Key responsibilities:

  • Owns company wide long term module strategy.
  • Works closely with current module partners to create differentiation for Lumentum products.
  • Drives long term module supplier engagements for all forward looking products.
  • Leads the architecture, design, and initial product definition for Lumentums’ early-stage product concepts, making the appropriate tradeoffs between technical and business risk. 
  • Represents Lumentum at various standards and industry leading events.

Education

  • MS, PhD, Electrical Engineering, Photonics, or related field.

Qualifications:

  • 12+ years of experience in high-speed optoelectronics, packaging, and module design, with a proven track record of successful product development and deployment.
  • Extensive experience with high-speed PCB and package design, including PCB signal integrity and advanced packaging concepts.
  • Strong understanding of optical components such as lasers, photodetectors, modulators.
  • Excellent knowledge of photonics / electronics high speed interfaces and ICs for photonics (TIA, Drivers, DSP).
  • Strong understanding of high speed electrical and optical systems and software
  • Experience with data communication protocols (Ethernet, PCIe, etc)
  • Strong understanding of high speed SerDes technology.
  • Excellent understanding of different modulation formats such as PAM4, Coherent.
  • Excellent written, presentation, and communication skills.

Pay Range:

P95-USA-1 :$178,500.00 - $255,000.00

Disclaimer:

Final base salary for the successful candidate will depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job location, where work will be performed, qualifications, work history and relevant experience. With our continual goal of making Lumentum a best place to work for our employees, we strive to offer employees competitive total compensation packages, which may include annual bonus, commission for certain sales roles, equity, and health and welfare benefits.

Top Skills

Electrical Engineering
Photonics
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The Company
HQ: San Jose, CA
3,219 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a market-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and laser applications worldwide. Lumentum optical components and subsystems are part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities. Lumentum is headquartered in San Jose, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.lumentum.com.

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