Job Description
Product Manager
Department: Product
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Plymouth
The Product Manager is accountable to the Director of Products and is responsible for defining and delivering Plessey’s MicroLED product offering for emerging Augmented Reality (AR) applications, while also supporting the development of new product opportunities in the optical interconnect domain.
This role represents a new function within Plessey, supporting the transition from advanced technology development to product definition, roadmap delivery, and customer-aligned execution.
The role will act as the Voice of the Customer (VoC) within Plessey, ensuring that product requirements, priorities, and delivery plans are aligned to the needs of major global customers.
Success in this role will be measured by development of clear, market-aligned product specifications, delivery of coherent product and feature roadmaps, effective alignment between customer expectations and engineering delivery & contribution to successful new product introduction (NPI) programmes.
Key Responsibilities
Product Definition & Specification:
- Lead the definition of MicroLED product specifications in collaboration with customers and external partners.
- Translate customer requirements into clear, structured, and actionable inputs for internal engineering teams.
- Support trade-off discussions between performance, manufacturability, and delivery timelines.
- Support early definition of product requirements and use cases in emerging optical interconnect applications.
Product Roadmap Development & Communication:
- Develop and maintain product and feature roadmaps aligned to customer programmes and market needs.
- Extend roadmap planning to include emerging application areas (e.g. optical interconnect) where aligned to Plessey’s technology strategy.
- Communicate roadmaps across internal teams, partners, and customers.
- Manage expectations on capability, timing, and product evolution.
Voice of the Customer (VoC):
- Act as the primary VoC within internal engineering and programme discussions.
- Ensure customer priorities are represented in development planning and technical decision-making.
- Capture and assess customer and market signals for both AR and emerging application spaces.
- Work closely with Programme and Project Managers to ensure delivery alignment.
Cross-Functional & Partner Coordination:
- Coordinate across internal engineering teams to align on product requirements.
- Work closely with partners to ensure manufacturability and readiness for scale.
- Support transition from development through NPI into scaled manufacturing.
Customer Engagement & Communication:
- Engage directly with major global customers.
- Present product definitions, roadmaps, and capability updates.
- Manage customer queries, feedback, and technical discussions.
- Support early-stage customer engagement in new application areas, including optical interconnect where relevant.
- Influence stakeholders by clearly articulating Plessey’s product positioning and roadmap.
Product Lifecycle & Continuous Improvement:
- Support evolution from product definition through NPI and early production.
- Contribute to lifecycle management, change control, and feedback integration.
- Drive continuous improvement in product performance, quality, and alignment to market needs.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Demonstrable experience in product management, including bringing new products to market.
- Technical background in semiconductor, display technologies, or related industries.
- Experience working with major international customers.
- Proven ability to define and communicate product strategies, specifications, and roadmaps.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional engineering teams and external partners.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills.
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding of product-market fit.
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
- Willingness to travel internationally.
- Experience or interest in emerging applications of compound semiconductor technologies (e.g. optical interconnect, photonics) is desirable.
Benefits
- Pension scheme
- Private medical & dental insurance
- 28 days’ holiday + bank holidays
- Free onsite meals
- Onsite gym
- Relocation support
- Visa support available
