Product Line Manager (Optical Interconnects)

Location: San Jose, United States

Company

hirify.global is a well-funded startup building photonics infrastructure for AI supercomputing, including chip-to-chip optical interconnects and scalable photonic engines.

What you will do

• Drive strategy and execution for co-packaged and pluggable optical product lines, including 800G and emerging 1.6T transceiver platforms.
• Coordinate engineering, packaging, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, sales, and operations teams through product development and production transfer.
• Manage manufacturing partner engagement across design verification, reliability, compliance testing, and product launch readiness.
• Support customer adoption, design wins, technical issue resolution, and customer feedback collection.
• Analyze product requirements and trade-offs involving form factor, power, thermal performance, reach, and interoperability.
• Prepare product plans, customer proposals, business cases, technical reviews, reliability reports, and risk assessments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering, business, finance, or a related field.
• 7–10 years of industry experience supporting or managing optical product lines for communications, networking, or data transmission.
• Working knowledge of pluggable optical modules and transceiver technologies, including 800G platforms and emerging 1.6T architectures.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with engineering, operations, sales, and manufacturing teams.
• Familiarity with product lifecycle management, market analysis, customer engagement, business metrics, and commercial trade-offs.

Nice to have

• MBA or advanced technical degree.
• Experience in photonics, optics, or high-speed connectivity technologies.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, data centers, or optical networking markets.
• Familiarity with QSFP-DD and OSFP transceiver form factors.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary with significant equity compensation.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible time off policy.
• Opportunity to influence photonics technology for AI and data centers.
• Collaborative environment with experienced engineers and opportunities for rapid career growth.