Principal Technical Product Manager

Job Title

Principal Technical Product Manager

Role Summary

Lead product strategy and execution for Siemens EDA's Questa verification platform, focusing on verification management, digital thread, cloud deployment, and AI-driven verification workflows. You will work with R&D, customers, sales, and marketing to define vision, prioritize features, and deliver solutions for complex SoC and FPGA verification.

This role is based in Austin, TX with a hybrid work arrangement.

Experience Level

Senior (Principal) — typically 8–10 years of product management experience; experience in EDA, semiconductor, or enterprise software is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include defining strategy and driving delivery for verification products and capabilities.

• Own the product vision and roadmap for Verification Management: verification planning, coverage management, regression analytics, and metrics-driven closure.
• Drive the Digital Thread strategy to ensure traceability and data continuity across design and verification lifecycles.
• Lead product efforts for scalable, cloud-native verification environments and deployment models.
• Define and prioritize AI-powered capabilities to enable intelligent automation and insight-driven workflows.
• Translate customer needs and market trends into product requirements, user stories, and roadmap priorities.
• Partner with R&D, sales, marketing, and customer success to align priorities and validate direction with key accounts and industry stakeholders.
• Define KPIs and success metrics for product initiatives and iterate based on data and customer feedback.

Requirements

Must-have skills and qualifications for the role.

• Proven product management experience (see Experience Level) delivering software products to market, ideally in EDA, semiconductor, or enterprise software.
• Strong knowledge of functional verification methodologies, including simulation, formal verification, and coverage-driven verification.
• Experience driving cloud or SaaS product initiatives from concept to market.
• Familiarity with verification management concepts such as coverage closure, regression management, and metrics-driven verification planning.
• Understanding of digital thread and data continuity across complex engineering workflows.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence engineering, sales, and executives.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum and product lifecycle management.
• Compliance with U.S. export-control requirements: employment contingent on verifying U.S. Person status or obtaining necessary export licenses.
• Nice-to-have: exposure to Questa, SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHDL, and prior experience applying AI/analytics in verification workflows.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Siemens

Headquarters: Munich, Germany

Siemens EDA is a leading global provider of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) products and systems. Their innovative solutions enable companies to enhance the development of electronic products efficiently and effectively, keeping pace with the complex demands of technology and physics. Siemens is committed to delivering advanced workflow solutions that integrate both EDA and MCAD tools for multi-domain design and manufacturing in the semiconductor industry.