Director, Digital IP Roadmap

Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) is the leading innovator in low-power wireless connectivity, building embedded technology that connects devices and improves lives. Merging cutting-edge technology into the world’s most highly integrated SoCs, Silicon Labs provides device makers the solutions, support, and ecosystems needed to create advanced edge connectivity applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Silicon Labs has operations in over 16 countries and is the trusted partner for innovative solutions in the smart home, industrial IoT, and smart cities markets. Learn more at www.silabs.com.

Director, Digital IP Roadmap
Austin, TX

The Role
Silicon Labs is seeking a Director, Digital IP Roadmap to define and drive the roadmap for our digital IP portfolio. This portfolio provides the foundation for products across the company, so the role will connect current and future product needs with the development and evolution of the IPs that support them.

You will gather input from product definition, architecture, design, applications, customers, and emerging industry standards. Working across these groups, you will assess needs, set priorities, and guide roadmap planning for a portfolio of more than 200 IPs. You will also contribute to the processes that help teams align development with the roadmap.

This is a senior, highly collaborative role. You will work with IP managers and design teams across multiple global sites, while those teams remain responsible for executing the development work. Your technical background will help you evaluate proposed features and tradeoffs, understand implementation effort, and build a roadmap that is both useful to the business and grounded in engineering realities.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the digital IP roadmap in alignment with current and anticipated product needs.
• Gather and reconcile input from product definition, architecture, design, applications, customers, and external standards.
• Assess and prioritize IP development opportunities, including immediate market needs and longer-term portfolio improvements.
• Coordinate IP streams and communicate roadmap priorities, plans, and dependencies across global teams.
• Drive the IP change management process and support consistent planning across the portfolio.
• Work with IP managers and design teams to align development plans with roadmap priorities.
• Evaluate potential IP features and subsystems, including emerging areas such as display, vision, and audio.
• Build strong working relationships across functions and resolve differing viewpoints through thoughtful, inclusive collaboration.
• Keep roadmap decisions technically grounded by considering feasibility, implementation effort, and the needs of the products that will use the IP.
  

Skills You Will Need  

Minimum Qualifications:

• 15 or more years of experience in the semiconductor industry, with experience in a product-focused organization.
• A track record of working across multiple functions, such as design, systems, architecture, applications, or product definition.
• Hands-on experience with digital IP design, including prior RTL design experience.
• Strong understanding of SoC design and the role digital IP plays in product development.
• Ability to assess technical proposals, implementation tradeoffs, and development effort.
• Experience contributing to or driving IP planning, roadmaps, or cross-functional development initiatives.
• Clear communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to bring together stakeholders with different perspectives.
• A collaborative, open approach to gathering input, building alignment, and making decisions.
• Experience with wireless or general-purpose SoCs is relevant to this role. Direct people-management experience is not required.
• Experience with artificial intelligence (AI) powered tools and technologies used to enhance productivity, analysis, and decision-making 
  
  

Benefits & Perks 

You can look forward to the following benefits: 

• Great medical (Choice of PPO or Consumer Driven Health Plan with HSA), dental and vision plans
• Highly competitive salary
• 401k plan with match and Roth plan option
• Equity rewards (RSUs)
• Life/AD&D and disability coverage
• Flexible spending accounts
• Adoption assistance
• Back-Up childcare
• Additional benefit options (Commuter benefits, Legal benefits, Pet insurance)
• Flexible PTO schedule
• 3 paid volunteer days per year
• Charitable contribution match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Free downtown parking
• Onsite gym
• Monthly wellness offerings
• Free snacks
• Company updates with our CEO

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The annualized base pay range for this role is expected to be between $175,700 - $326,300 USD. Actual base pay could vary based on factors including but not limited to experience, geographic location where work will be performed and applicant’s skill set. The base pay is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include an annual cash bonus, equity package and a comprehensive benefits package.

Silicon Labs is an equal opportunity employer and values the diversity of our employees. Employment decisions are made on the basis of qualifications and job-related criteria without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.