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General Manager – Optical Design Engineering (ODE)

Keysight Technologies, Inc. 🇩🇪 Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Onsite $207,360 - $379,200 Full-time Senior

The General Manager will have full P&L ownership and end-to-end responsibility for the strategy, growth, and execution of the Optical Design Engineering business unit. They will lead a global organization to drive recurring revenue, operational efficiency, and portfolio innovation across the DES division.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a global organization with core engineering and leadership hubs in the United States, Germany, and Japan, supported by regional commercial coverage across APAC and EMEA
  • Report directly to the Senior Vice President of DES and operate as a member of the DES senior leadership team, contributing to enterprise-level strategy, transformation, and execution
  • Own the end-to-end ODE business with full P&L responsibility, including product and technology strategy, engineering execution, go-to-market alignment, and revenue growth
  • Drive the evolution of ODE's business model by accelerating recurring revenue through subscription, hybrid, and enterprise deployment models, while improving customer adoption, retention, and lifetime value

Requirements

  • Senior leadership experience with full P&L ownership for a software or technology business
  • Proven ability to scale and lead engineering or simulation software organizations in complex, highly technical markets
  • Strong track record driving recurring revenue transformation, including subscription and enterprise licensing models
  • Technical credibility in optical, photonics, or multi-physics simulation, with experience guiding product and technology strategy
  • Experience owning end-to-end product and engineering execution, from roadmap definition through delivery

Benefits

  • Equal Opportunity Employer
  • Comprehensive pay range

Key Skills

Leadership Strategic planning Engineering management Product development Revenue growth Customer adoption Retention Lifetime value Technical credibility Optical simulation Photonics simulation Multi-physics simulation Software development Cloud computing Artificial intelligence Machine learning Data analytics Communication Collaboration Problem-solving

About Keysight Technologies, Inc.

Keysight empowers innovators to explore, design, and bring world-changing technologies to life. As the industry’s premier global innovation partner, Keysight’s software-centric solutions serve engineers across the design and development environment, enabling them to deliver tomorrow’s breakthroughs at speed and with reduced risk. Keysight leverages its strength as the world’s leading test and measurement provider and today enables innovators to push the boundaries of engineering by quickly solving design, emulation, and test challenges to help create the best product experiences. Whether you're looking to improve your design and development process, optimize and secure your network, or harness AI and digital twins to get a head start on technologies like 6G, AV and EV, IoT, or quantum computing — Keysight accelerates innovation across the workflow with intelligent insights built on the most accurate measurements. Our fusion of technology knowledge, measurement science expertise, a

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