Job Title: Product Manager

Division: Transportation Innovative Solutions | Sensing Solutions

Location: Lisle, IL or Rochester Hills, MI (Onsite)

Travel: 10-20%

Your Job

Molex is looking for a Product Manager for Sensing Solutions to lead the front end of new business creation in automotive sensing. You will identify market opportunities, engage with customers early, shape product and market strategies, and drive quoting decisions that have lasting business impact.

This is a strategic leadership role focused on defining what to build, why it matters, and how it delivers value, while collaborating closely with engineering, operations, and commercial teams to ensure successful execution.

In this role, success looks like:

• Establishing a fact-based and Voice of customer-based market landscape and creating a path to market for Molex in the first 12 months
• Lead opportunity pipeline creation and resulting RFQs that result in awarded business
• Lead the sensor team to create a positive value proposition for Molex in select sensing solutions and collaborate with the shared resources within Molex to drive results
• Shape strategy for the next 5 years for the product family

Our Team

You'll join a cross-functional product organization responsible for shaping and scaling our sensing solutions business. Our team brings together engineering, commercial, operations, and market-facing roles to build new product capabilities, partner with key technology providers, and deliver differentiated sensing solutions to customers across industrial, automotive, and data center applications.

We operate with an entrepreneurial mindset in our Principle Based Management (PBM) culture; your work will directly influence how we enter new market verticals, develop product roadmaps, and deliver long-term value. This is a highly visible role that blends strategy, customer interaction, and hands-on execution.

What You Will Do

• Lead cross-functional teams in planning, development, and execution of new sensing solutions, including collaboration with external technology partners.
• Create market maps, prioritize verticals, and develop go-to-market strategies for new sensing product areas.
• Build financial and commercial business cases to ensure opportunities meet profitability and product viability expectations.
• Lead Voice of Customer activities and translate market insight into clear product requirements for engineering.
• Drive customer engagement during RFI/RFQ phases, ensuring accurate requirements, competitive positioning, and informed quoting decisions.
• Apply Agile principles to coordinate engineering, operations, and commercial teams for iterative development.
• Own the product family roadmap and manage lifecycle, cost, and commercial performance.
• Train internal stakeholders (Sales, distributors, customers) on product capabilities and new solution offerings.
• Manage cost, capital planning, and cross-functional deliverables through the PDP process toward safe launch.
• Identify opportunities for cost improvements and next-generation design initiatives.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• 5+ years leading product strategy for engineered or technology products.
• Demonstrated success driving product lifecycle activities from concept through commercialization.
• Experience with structured development processes (AQP, PDP, or similar).
• Proven ability to develop business cases and make data-driven commercial decisions.
• Engineering or technical degree OR 10+ years of experience working with complex engineered products.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Technical knowledge of sensors or electronic assemblies supplied to OEMs.
• Expertise in sensor applications within automotive, industrial, or related markets.
• Experience with complex sensing solutions.
• Advanced degree in Electrical/Electronics, Engineering or significant product management experience (10+ years) in similar environments

For this role, we anticipate paying $140, 000 to $155, 000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu ).

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