Senior Product Manager

Job Title: Senior Product Manager

Location(s): Irvine, CA - Onsite

Compensation: $110,000 - $130,000

About this position:

Advantech is seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive the strategic direction of our server and high-performance computing product lines. This role focuses on developing localized go-to-market (GTM) strategies, ensuring effective product positioning, understanding customer needs, and enhancing engagement with sales teams and clients to win deals.

Responsibilities:

• Lead product strategy and execution for server and high-performance computing lines, ensuring alignment with corporate goals and market trends.
• Develop and implement localized go-to-market (GTM) plans by identifying regional opportunities and tailoring solutions to customer needs.
• Partner with marketing to define and execute product promotional strategies, including online and offline marketing plans, internal training sessions, webinars, and collaboration with sales teams, partners, or customers.
• Collaborate with sales to strengthen customer engagement, understand customer need, and conduct technical feasibility studies and respond to RFIs/RFPs/RFQs, including clarifying product specifications, preparing proposals, defining quotations, facilitating meetings, and tracking progress.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams—such as application engineering, procurement, supply chain, and manufacturing—for seamless execution.
• Manage product phase-in and phase-out processes, including announcements, documentation updates, and database maintenance.
• Address product and project-related quality issues by collaborating with the quality department, HQ product teams, and engineering teams to resolve any challenges effectively.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients and partners to drive long-term growth.
• Communicate with overseas counterparts regarding product and project-related action items, which may require occasional late-hour meetings.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or a related technical field is preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in product management, project management, or product engineering within the PC industry or related fields.
• Proficient in defining x86 product specifications.
• A solid understanding of computer hardware is highly preferred.
• Strong teamwork abilities, with a proactive mindset and the ability to execute tasks efficiently and independently.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration across teams and with stakeholders.
• Proven time management and organizational skills, with the ability to work independently, stay motivated, and focus on details.
• Positive, determined attitude, with the capacity to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to new systems, processes, plans, and programs.
• Proven track record of managing multiple projects and deadlines, with excellent prioritization skills.

Travel:

• 10-15% of travel per year (trade shows, customer visits, etc.)

Benefits:

• Competitive salary dependent on experience (DOE)
• Winning culture with a friendly, team-oriented environment
• Generous benefits package including medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(k) with company match
• Education & personal development reimbursement program
• Generous vacation and paid holidays package
• Company events, and lunches
• Work from home program – once eligible
• Referral Bonus

About Advantech

Founded in 1983, Advantech is a leader in providing trusted innovative embedded and automation products and solutions. Advantech offers comprehensive system integration, hardware, software, customer-centric design services, and global logistics support; all backed by industry-leading front and back-office e-business solutions. Advantech has always been an innovator in the development and manufacture of high-quality, high-performance computing platforms.

We cooperate closely with our partners to help provide complete solutions for a wide array of applications across a diverse range of industries. To realize our corporate vision of Enabling an Intelligent Planet, Advantech will continue collaborating and partnering for Smart city & IoT Solutions.

World-class Recognition

Advantech is an authorized alliance partner of both Intel and Microsoft. Our customers will find the technologies we use inside our products to be widely compatible with other products in the global marketplace. In 2018 and 2019, Interbrand, the world-renowned brand consulting firm, once again recognized Advantech efforts to build a trusted, global brand; it also symbolizes a promise we gave to our business partners, which was to do our best to keep building a trustworthy brand that is recognized everywhere in the world. Advantech was selected as Interbrand's #5 best Taiwan Global Brand in 2018.

Work Authorization:

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations (ITAR), applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8. U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. More information can be found at

Advantech is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We accept applications directly from candidates only and will not be responsible for any recruiting agency fees absent a formal agreement.