SOLIDWORKS Roles Portfolio Manager

Role Descriptions & Responsibilities

As a SOLIDWORKS Roles Portfolio Manager, you will focus on AI-powered CAD, design, and product-development solutions. The role combines product strategy, AI/technology, customer research, go-to-market, and cross-functional leadership.

You will be connecting customers, business strategy, and engineering to innovate, define and manage SOLIDWORKS AI and Design products. Some more of your responsibilities include the following:

• Set product strategy: Analyze the CAD/AI market, competitors, technology trends, customer needs, and opportunities, then define where SOLIDWORKS should invest and differentiate.
• Plan the roadmap: Build long-term strategy (3–6 years) and near-term plans, plus an 18–24-month product/AI roadmap based on customer use cases.
• Work with customers: Talk with customers, prospects, and users to understand their workflows and translate their needs into product and AI capabilities.
• Drive AI innovation: Define and manage AI-powered design experiences and “Virtual Competences”—essentially AI capabilities that help users accomplish design and engineering tasks.
• Coordinate across teams: Work closely with R&D, engineering, sales, marketing, finance, operations, and pricing to bring products to market.
• Own commercialization: Help determine packaging and pricing, support sales opportunities, and influence go-to-market strategy.
• Launch products: Ensure products and AI capabilities are ready for release, including QA, content, training materials, sales tools, demos, and videos.
• Be a product evangelist: Represent SOLIDWORKS at internal and external events and communicate the value of its AI/design technologies.

Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical/ Mechatronics / Robotics Engineering / Electromechanical, or a related field of study.

· 3 years of Design or Manufacturing Industry experience or school project equivalent

· Strong CAD (SOLIDWORKS) background in using, consulting, selling, or managing

· Strong interest in AI, emerging technology trends, and how AI can be applied to real product and customer problems

· Familiarity with the latest developments in the AI industry, including LLMs, agentic AI concepts, and AI productivity tools such as Claude Code, OpenAICodex, or similar platforms.

· Strong research and analytical skills, with the ability to gather information, identify patterns, and turn findings into actionable insights

· Ability to manage multiple projects independently from start to finish, set and meet deadlines, and interact positively with employees at all levels, external vendors, resellers, prospects, and customers.

· Experience in using LLM for market research, validation, content creation, etc.

· Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize research clearly for cross-functional audiences

· Organized, proactive, and able to manage multiple workstreams in a dynamic and fast-paced environment

· Experience in image/video content creation, recording and editing tools (non AI/AI) such as Camtasia, Adobe Photoshop, DaVinci, OpenArt, etc.

· Ability to understand and communicate complex technical subjects in a clear and concise manner

· Strong organizational, analytical, and project management skills

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