Lead Product Planner

About Altera

At Altera™, our independence as the world’s largest pure‑play FPGA solutions provider gives us the focus, speed, and agility to innovate without compromise. With more than four decades of industry‑leading FPGA expertise, our singular mission is to deliver the programmable technologies that help customers differentiate, innovate, and scale across rapidly evolving markets like AI, cloud, networking, and edge. As an independent company, we move faster, invest deeper, and partner more closely—empowering our teams to drive breakthrough innovation and shape the future of the FPGA industry.

About the Role

As part of Altera's HW Engineering organization, the Product Planning Group plays a key role in partnering and influencing strategic deliverables throughout the organization.

The Lead Product Planner role requires a combination of technical expertise, business acumen, organizational understanding and networking capabilities. The Product Planning runs certain strategic processes, visits customers, collaborates with Sales, the Business Management group, Architects and influences the organization via these processes. Activities include driving planning processes, competitive analysis, market analysis, and participating in strategic task forces. This specific role of Lead Product Planner will focus on leading planning activities for next generation device of product family

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead definition and planning activities for next generation Altera FPGA or product family

• Own roadmap for one of the future devices or product families, including prioritization, customer validation and communication of the roadmap both within and outside of Altera

• Lead cross functional team responsible for establishing and maintaining the Plan of Record for one of the future families.  The team includes Planners, Architects, Engineering, Marketing, and Applications Engineering to drive your product from concept through mass production.  

• Lead, participate and contribute into corresponding leadership teams and represent Product Planning in relevant forums

• Understand system level architecture, gather customer and Altera business partners requirements, MRD(s) from internal stakeholders and synthesize these into structured Product Requirements Document (PRD)

• Network and coordinate with Business Stakeholders and key partners to continuously drive customer requirements into the product definitions

Desired Competencies:

• Leadership - influences, inclusiveness, defines and drive decisions in a proactive, assertive manner, ability to articulate ideas and concepts in a compelling and targeted manner to promote change

• Presence and Communications - can create and facilitate engagement and dialogue and open communication in tense situations, and can communicate goals and plans to critical project stakeholders

• Self-starter - Comfortable driving unchartered, high paced programs with limited oversight

• Highly analytical - Data driven and possess strong problem-solving skills, can structure complicated issues and find creative solutions to business challenges

• Strong interpersonal skills - can bring difficult discussions to the table and arbitrate different viewpoints effectively, not afraid to speak up to ensure success of program and call out dysfunctionalities

• Business acumen - understands business and technical challenges and landscape, strong technical acumen with background on vertical markets and FPGA solutions

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Masters or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

• 10+ years of relevant hardware design, product planning/management, customer support or technical marketing experience

• 10+ years of experience with semiconductors (FPGA, ASIC/ASSP, processors) development and manufacturing

• 8+ years of experience interacting with customers

Preferred Qualifications

• 15+ years of total experience in a semiconductor or related role (ie. related to FPGA, ASIC/SOCs, Hardware etc.)

• Knowledge in FPGA architecture and FPGA development methodology

• Experience in architecting FPGA based solutions for an end market application

• Proven track record of driving successful innovation products and influencing product strategy

• Proven track record of leading cross functional teams