Term: Full time, Permanent
Location: Bristol/Hybrid
Team: Product Management
The role
The System and Embedded Software Product Manager plays a central role in defining, delivering, and supporting XMOS’ portfolio of products across audio, voice, vision, and on-device AI. This strategic and delivery-focused position is responsible for managing the full product lifecycle – from market and requirements definition through development, launch, and in-life management – with a strong emphasis on driving competitive differentiation and commercial success.
Operating within a fast-paced and technically complex environment, this role involves close collaboration with engineering, marketing, sales, and leadership teams. It provides a unique opportunity to influence both what we build and how we take it to market, contributing directly to XMOS’ growth
Key Responsibilities
- Lead product strategy – own the vision and roadmap for system and embedded software products, aligned with XMOS’ long-term goals.
- Drive development lifecycle – manage every phase from idea to launch — including market analysis, business case development, and in-life performance.
- Champion GTM readiness – create development platforms and technical collateral that enable successful product adoption and revenue growth.
- Collaborate across the business – work closely with engineering, marketing, sales, and executive leadership to ensure a unified and impactful product strategy.
- Shape market positioning – define pricing, value propositions, and competitive positioning to ensure our products lead — and stay ahead.
- Empower sales success – equip our global salesforce with clear product narrative training, and support to win key design opportunities.
- Monitor & Report Success: Define KPIs, forecast performance, and provide insight-driven recommendations to leadership.
The ideal candidate
We are looking for a seasoned product management professional with a strong track record in semiconductors or embedded technology, who combines technical depth with strategic insight. The ideal candidate will be motivated by the opportunity to shape and deliver innovative, system-level products in a fast-evolving technology landscape.
This individual will be a confident collaborator, able to engage effectively across engineering, sales, marketing, and leadership and will bring both a customer-focused mindset and a commercial orientation. They will thrive in a dynamic environment, possess the credibility to operate within the semiconductor ecosystem, and be comfortable influencing stakeholders at all levels.
Key skills and qualifications
Required:
- Extensive product management experience in the semiconductor or embedded systems industry, ideally in audio, voice, vision, or edge AI.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects across the full product lifecycle, from concept through development, launch, and in-life management.
- Strong strategic and commercial thinking, with the ability to turn market trends and customer needs into actionable product strategy.
- Comfortable developing and presenting product roadmaps and business cases, and securing executive buy-in.
- Experience working with and influencing cross-functional teams, including hardware, firmware, software, and sales.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, adaptable for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Entrepreneurial, resilient, and comfortable operating in ambiguity with a high degree of ownership and accountability.
- A bachelor’s degree (technical preferred); a Master’s degree is a plus.
- Willingness to travel internationally (up to 15%
At XMOS, we believe that diverse experiences and perspectives drive innovation and success. We know that no one checks every box, and we don’t expect you to. If you’re excited about this role, passionate about what you do, and eager to learn, we want to hear from you—even if you don’t meet every qualification. Your unique background, skills, and potential to grow are just as important as ticking every box. If you believe you could make a valuable contribution to our team, we encourage you to apply.
About XMOS
XMOS is the leading producer of generative systems-on-chips (GenSoCs). Its XCORE® platform enables users to generate their own SoC with real-time reconfigurability across Control, I/O, DSP and AI in a single chip. Its deterministic, parallel architecture means it can perform multiple tasks at the same time without interference, and complete them reliably and predictably across all deployment scenarios. XCORE’s flexibility, scalability and determinism give it a critical edge as a platform upon which robust systems can be generated
