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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Product Manager IV - **Company:** Applied Materials - **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $161,000.0 - $221,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, IBM AIX, Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Data Integrity, DevOps, Software Engineering, Enterprise Application Integration, Enterprise Software Applications, Cloud Platform System, Information Technology, Microservices - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.themuse.com/jobs/appliedmaterials/software-product-manager-iv-91b7fd ## About the Role * Bachelor's or Master's in computer science, engineering, or related field. * 10+ years 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 across BU, GIS, and LabOps. Key Interfaces * Solution Architect, Application Development Lead, Lab Operations leadership, BU stakeholders, GIS, AIx, QA, DevOps, Design, Training/Enablement ## Description You'll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible-while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more. At Applied Materials, we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. We're committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits. As a Systems Engineer, you'll design, integrate, and optimize complex systems that drive the semiconductor industry forward. Your expertise in systems thinking and problem-solving is essential as you collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop advanced solutions to intricate processes and writing system specifications. You'll be responsible for analyzing requirements, defining system architectures, conducting thorough testing, and ensuring seamless integration of subsystems. Additionally, you'll identify and mitigate risks, confirming that our systems meet the highest quality standards and exceed customer expectations., The Product Manager in the Lab D&A team is responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of digital solutions for lab operations that drive automation, data integrity, and operational efficiency across labs. This role partners closely with solution architects, application development leads, and lab operations leadership, and chairs the product governance body to ensure alignment, prioritization, and change management for all released products and applications., 1. Product Strategy & Roadmap * Define and communicate the product vision and multi-year roadmap for digital applications for lab operations, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and lab operational goals. * Quantify and track product KPIs around automation, data integrity, cycle time, and user adoption. * Lead the transition from fragmented legacy workflows to unified, scalable platforms, collaborating with architects and engineering. 2. Governance & Change Management * Chair the decision-making body for change management and project prioritization, ensuring structured governance and recurring reviews of submitted product change requests * Approve, hold, or cancel projects entering the change management process, set priorities, and maintain the health of the change request pipeline and associated metrics. * Act as the escalation point for unresolved issues before senior management involvement. 3. Customer Discovery & Workflow Enablement * Lead discovery with BU stakeholders, LabOps, GIS, and other partners to design business-specific workflows and hardware/process execution capabilities * Analyze, optimize, and document end-to-end processes to drive operational efficiency and support organizational goals. * Facilitate MVP scoping, governance for upgrades, and new features; define clear problem statements, success metrics, and acceptance criteria. 4. Execution & Delivery Leadership * Coordinate cross-functional teams (engineering, QA, DevOps, design, product operations) to deliver high-quality releases on time; maintain clear release notes. * Lead readiness with GIS, AIx, and BU teams, including training plans and rollout communications for lab applications. * Drive training and adoption programs across user communities; capture feedback to inform backlog prioritization and roadmap iteration. ## Related Videos - [Remote Driving on Plant Grounds with State-of-the-Art Cloud Technologies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/251-remote-driving-on-plant-grounds-with-state-of-the-art-cloud-technologies) - [Microservices: how to get started with Spring Boot and Kubernetes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/242-microservices-how-to-get-started-with-spring-boot-and-kubernetes) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Stop Renaming Teams, Start Product Thinking: A PM's Guide to Platform-as-a-Product](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100342-stop-renaming-teams-start-product-thinking-a-pm-s-guide-to-platform-as-a-product) - [Cloud Chaos and Microservices Mayhem](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/104-cloud-chaos-and-microservices-mayhem) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [From developer to manager – what does it take to become an engineering manager?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/42-from-developer-to-manager-what-does-it-take-to-become-an-engineering-manager) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Now is the time for industrialized software development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/601-now-is-the-time-for-industrialized-software-development) - [Everything a Developer Needs to Know About MCP with Neo4j](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/604-everything-a-developer-needs-to-know-about-mcp-with-neo4j) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated)