We Are: Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.
You Are: You are an outbound (customer- and market-facing) product manager who loves putting new technology in front of engineers and seeing how it changes their work. You thrive in working side by side with Applications Engineers, Sales, and customer teams to get AI agents up and running in real engineering environments.
You bring 5-8 years of experience in product management or applications engineering in the engineering software industry, or you've lived these use cases and engineering workflows from the customer perspective. You are a power user of AI: you've built or improved something real with it, and you're ready to show us. You pair sharp product instincts with a strong sense of great user experience, and you carry one cohesive agentic AI story across Synopsys products, customers, and markets.
This role is open to candidates based in the
United States or Canada. The qualified candidate may work from their home country, and relocation to the U.S. is not required.
What You'll Be Doing: - Taking Synopsys Autopilot™ Platform and AgentEngineer™ solutions for Simulations & Analysis to market as the outbound product manager on the central Agentic AI product management team, shaping the market story and participating in forward-deployed engagements that get agents delivering value inside customer environments.
- Communicating one consistent Agentic AI story externally across S&A product lines: positioning, messaging, value propositions, and competitive differentiation that every product team, Sales, Marketing, and Applications Engineering team uses the same way.
- Leading customer discovery with Applications Engineering and customer engineering teams at strategic accounts and in forward-deployed engagements to identify the workflows where AI agents create the most value, and turning what you and the field teams learn into prioritized feedback that product line PMs and R&D use to build reusable AI product capabilities.
- Enabling S&A Applications Engineering (AE) to run forward-deployed lighthouse (first-of-a-kind) Agentic AI engagements: scoping high-value use cases with customers, defining success criteria and deployment plans, and joining on-site at strategic accounts.
- Co-develop the playbook and toolkit with our Application Engineering teams: engagement templates, demo use cases, reference architectures, and guidance for connecting agents to customer data, tools, and systems.
- Coordinating Agentic AI launches across S&A product lines and equipping Sales and Applications Engineering with launch plans, a single catalog of Agentic AI capabilities and proven use cases, demo scripts, FAQs, and standard answers on security, data handling, responsible AI, and deployment.
- Representing Synopsys S&A Agentic AI at key customer briefings, executive meetings, webinars, user conferences, industry events, and in joint go-to-market efforts with technology partners, and bringing competitive, pricing, and packaging insights back to the central team.
- Measuring outbound and forward-deployed results, such as technical wins, lighthouse-to-production conversion, adoption at target accounts, and customer outcomes, and reporting them back to leadership.
The Impact You Will Have: - Help engineers at leading companies put AI agents to work on real simulation and engineering workflows.
- Help Applications Engineering turn forward-deployed engagements into fast, repeatable customer wins.
- Make Synopsys the trusted choice for Agentic AI by pairing our leading autonomous engineering solutions with our strength in physics-based accuracy.
- Give customers and the field one clear, consistent Agentic AI story across the S&A portfolio.
- Turn lighthouse engagements and field deployments into reference customers and scalable product capabilities.
- Bring the voice of the customer into every Agentic AI product and development priority decision.
- Shorten the path from a new agent capability to measurable customer value.
What You'll Need: - Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, computer science, or a related field; a master's degree or MBA preferred.
- 5 - 8 years of customer-facing experience in product management, applications engineering, and/or related roles.
- Experience in the engineering software industry, or similar experience at a company that uses Ansys or comparable simulation or engineering tools.
- Strong product instincts: you identify the real customer problem, frame the value, and make sound trade-offs with incomplete information.
- Strong AI curiosity: a hands-on power user of AI tools, able to prototype and configure agent workflows yourself; be ready to tell us what you have built or improved with AI.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with engineers, customers, and executives, and a record of aligning teams you don't manage across product lines and functions.
- Ability to travel up to 25%, including customer visits, workshops, and industry events.
- Strongly preferred: superior UX instincts and experience working on user-facing products, ideally AI-powered ones.
- Strongly preferred: direct AI expertise or prior AI-related work, especially in product management, such as building, evaluating, or launching AI products.
- Strongly preferred: forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or professional services experience, including hands-on workflow automation or scripting (e.g., Python, PyAnsys) in customer environments.
- Nice to have: experience working with customer IT and security teams on data protection, IP, and AI deployment options, including in regulated industries.
Who You Are: - Customer-obsessed: you start with the customer engineer's workflow, not the technology.
- Curious and hands-on with AI: you try new use cases with AI every day.
- A natural storyteller who makes complex technology simple.
- A connector who builds trust across product lines, regions, and functions.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.
- An owner who follows through from the first pilot to broad adoption.
The Team You'll Be A Part Of: You'll join the Central Agentic AI product management team for the Synopsys Simulation & Analysis division. The team sets the Agentic AI strategic direction with our leadership for the S&A portfolio, drives AI platform infrastructure implementation, and collaborates with our diverse lines-of-businesses across the AI product lifecycle, from research and development to release, go-to-market, monetization and licensing, and customer adoption. You'll work closely with both the central AI platform infrastructure team and product line PMs, R&D, and Marketing, and partner closely with S&A Applications Engineering and Sales on forward-deployed and services-based customer engagements.
Rewards and Benefits: We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings.
At Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.
In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can share more specific details on the total rewards package upon request. The base salary range for this role is across the U.S.
