Principal Product Manager, Fiber Connectivity

Location: San Jose, California, United States

Base salary: $185,000–$240,000 per year, depending on experience, level, and business need. The role may also include discretionary bonuses, incentives, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through semiconductor-based connectivity solutions and software, integrating technologies such as CXL, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe, and UALink.

What you will do

• Define the product strategy and multi-year roadmap for passive optical connectivity across fiber-to-chip and system interfaces.
• Identify applications, market opportunities, technology transitions, and competitive threats while representing customer needs.
• Set product requirements and balance optical performance, density, cost, manufacturability, reliability, supply chain, adoption, and time to market.
• Develop go-to-market strategies and launch plans, including market assessment, competitive positioning, technical content, and sales enablement.
• Drive product development from concept and requirements through qualification, customer deployment, production ramp, and sustaining support.
• Lead cross-functional work across engineering, manufacturing, operations, quality, supply chain, applications, sales, finance, and ecosystem partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, materials science, business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in product management, product line management, engineering, applications, business development, or a related function.
• Experience developing and commercializing complex hardware products.
• Experience with optics, photonics, fiber optics, optical connectivity, optical packaging, or related technologies.
• Experience working across engineering, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, sales, and commercial organizations.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and cross-functional leadership skills; willingness to travel internationally as needed.

Nice to have

• MBA or an advanced technical degree.
• Knowledge of AI, cloud, networking, data center, server, and high-performance computing infrastructure.
• Understanding of passive optical connectivity, optical coupling, fiber assemblies, connectors, alignment, and optical and mechanical tolerances.
• Experience with co-packaged optics, near-package optics, optical I/O, scale-up optical interconnects, high-volume manufacturing, supplier qualification, new product introduction, or production ramp.
• Experience working directly with hyperscalers, major system companies, and optical ecosystem partners.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with hyperscalers, AI infrastructure companies, system OEMs, and optical ecosystem partners.
• Collaboration spans optical, mechanical, electrical, systems, manufacturing, operations, quality, supply chain, applications, sales, and finance functions.
• Potential eligibility for discretionary bonuses, incentives, and company benefits.
• Applications are encouraged from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.