Senior Business Operations and Pricing Manager

MaxLinear is seeking a Senior Business Operations and Pricing Manager to join our Analog and Mixed-Signal business team. This role is the key business partner to Product Line Management, Sales, Sales Operations, Marketing, Finance, and Manufacturing Operations to drive data-based business decisions, demand planning, pricing execution, revenue growth, and operational excellence. In this role, you will focus on the following:

• Lead the business unit’s quarterly demand forecasting process, including consolidation of regional inputs, opportunity assumptions, inventory position, and product line priorities
• Provide raw material and product demand forecasts in coordination with Marketing, Product Management, Manufacturing Operations, and Supply Planning teams
• Support Product Line Managers and Marketing Managers with business analysis, pricing models, opportunity tracking, revenue forecasts, and management reporting
• Manage sample request reviews, special pricing requests, and price quote escalations to support customer engagements while maintaining business discipline
• Partner with regional sales teams to identify new revenue opportunities, channel programs, and customer growth initiatives
• Apply strong knowledge of semiconductor sales and distribution models, including MPP, POP, POSC, forecast consumption, channel inventory, and point-of-sale trends
• Evaluate channel inventory, internal available-to-ship supply, and customer demand signals to recommend actions that accelerate regional revenue growth
• Develop and recommend product pricing actions to regional sales teams to support quarterly revenue targets, gross margin objectives, and competitive positioning
• Align with Sales Operations on ship schedules, backlog coverage, revenue pacing, allocation priorities, and gross margin impact
• Prepare weekly business performance reports covering bookings, billings, backlog, revenue outlook, quote activity, opportunity funnel, channel inventory, and key customer actions
• Conduct quarterly business reviews and trend analysis to identify risks, opportunities, pricing actions, and operational improvements
• Maintain routine tracking of top customer opportunities in partnership with the sales organization, including next steps, owners, timing, and revenue impact
• Coordinate quarterly opportunity funnel reviews with regional sales teams and provide actionable insights to business unit leadership
• Support creation, maintenance, and governance of product column pricing; conduct competitive pricing analysis and recommend adjustments as needed
• Build scalable dashboards, operating rhythms, and decision frameworks that improve forecast accuracy, pricing responsiveness, and cross-functional execution

• Bachelors in Business, Finance, Marketing, Engineering, Operations, or related + 10 years of experience, or Master’s + 8 years of experience
• Semiconductor industry experience required
• Demonstrated experience in business operations, sales operations, pricing, demand planning, product marketing, or related roles within the semiconductor industry
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to translate bookings, billings, backlog, inventory, pricing, and opportunity data into clear business insights and recommendations
• Experience developing demand assessments, revenue outlooks, pricing quotations, and gross margin analysis
• Proven ability to create effective executive-level presentations and communicate complex business issues clearly to management
• Track record of success in fast-paced, results-driven business operations, tactical marketing, demand planning, or revenue execution environments
• Ability to prioritize competing business needs, manage multiple workstreams, and collaborate effectively across Product Management, Sales, Finance, Operations, and Marketing
• Prior experience in sales, sales operations, or distribution/channel management is strongly preferred
• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with business intelligence tools, CRM systems, ERP systems, or pricing tools is a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong follow-through, ownership, and attention to detail
• Comfortable operating independently, driving cross-functional alignment, and escalating issues with fact-based recommendations

MaxLinear is a global, NASDAQ-traded company (MXL) where the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. We are a fabless system-on-chip product company, striving to improve the world’s communication networks for everyone through our highly integrated radio-frequency (RF), analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for access and connectivity, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi-market applications.

We hire the best people in the industry and engage them in some of the most exciting opportunities that connect the world we live in today. Our growth has come from innovative, bold approaches to solving some of the world’s most challenging communication technology problems in the most efficient and effective manner.

MaxLinear began by developing the world’s first high-performance TV tuner chip using standard CMOS process technology. Others said we couldn’t achieve the extremely high-performance requirements using CMOS, but we proved them wrong and achieved enduring global market leadership with our designs. Since then, we’ve developed a full line of products that drive 4G and 5G infrastructure; enable data center, metro and long-haul optical interconnects; bring 10Gbit to the home; power the IoT revolution; and enable robust and reliable communication in harsh industrial environments. Over the years, we’ve expanded through organic growth and through several acquisitions that have perfectly complemented our existing portfolio and enabled us to deliver complete end-to-end solutions in our target markets. One such example was the acquisition of Intel’s Home Gateway Platform Division that added Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and Broadband Gateway Processor SoC technology to our connected home portfolio creating a complete and scalable platform of connectivity and access solutions to fully address our customers’ needs.

Our headquarters are in Carlsbad, near San Diego, California. We also have major design centers in Irvine and San Jose, California; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore, India; Munich, Germany; Israel; and Singapore.

We have approximately 1,200 employees, a substantial majority of whom have engineering degrees and include masters and Ph.D. graduates from many of the premiere universities around the world. Our employees thrive on innovation, outstanding execution, outside-the-box thinking, nimbleness, and collaboration. Together, we form a high-energy business team that is focused on building the best and most innovative products on the market.