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Design Engineering Software (DES) is a global, multibusinessunit software organization within Keysight, delivering advanced engineering software platforms that enable customers to design, simulate, and validate the world’s most complex electronic, mechanical and optical systems. One of these business units, Optical Design Engineering (ODE), focuses on industryleading optical and photonics design and simulation software. 

Keysight is seeking a proven softwareoriented General Manager to lead the ODE Business Unit, with full P&L ownership and endtoend responsibility for strategy, growth, and execution. This role represents a significant general management opportunity for a senior leader with a strong software engineering background to scale a global engineering software business, modernize development practices, accelerate recurring revenue, and drive profitable growth within a broader, highly differentiated multiphysics software portfolio. 

ODE delivers industryleading optical and photonics software that extends DES’s multiphysics platform into optics and photonics. The business enables softwarefirst, systemlevel virtual prototyping across electronics, mechanics, and optics—empowering customers to innovate new products faster, reduce physical prototypes, and manage increasing system complexity through scalable simulation workflows. 

As part of Keysight’s ongoing DES transformation, this role is central to advancing modern software engineering excellence, including agile development, continuous delivery, and the effective use of AIenabled productivity tools across the value chain. The General Manager holds full accountability for business performance, software technology direction, and people leadership, while contributing to DESwide innovation, platform integration, and longterm value creation. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead a global software engineering–led organization with core development and leadership hubs in the United States, Germany, and Japan, supported by regional commercial coverage across the globe. 

• Report directly to the Senior Vice President of DES and operate as a member of the DES senior leadership team, contributing to enterpriselevel software strategy, portfolio evolution, and transformation execution. 

• Own the endtoend ODE business with full P&L responsibility, including: 

• Software product and platform strategy aligned with DES architectural priorities 

• Software engineering execution, agile roadmap delivery, and release predictability 

• Gotomarket alignment, pipeline expansion, and recurring revenue growth 

• Operational efficiency, cost discipline, and scalable software execution 

• Drive the evolution of ODE’s development model by strengthening agile and DevOps practices, improving crossfunctional collaboration between engineering, product management, and gotomarket teams, and increasing speed, quality, and customer impact. 

• Champion the adoption of AIenabled productivity tools across engineering, product management, and operations to improve developer efficiency, code quality, testing, documentation, analytics, and decisionmaking. 

• Lead the continued transformation toward recurring software revenue through subscription, hybrid, and enterprise deployment models, improving customer onboarding, adoption, retention, and lifetime value. 

• Act as a strategic software business leader, anticipating and shaping industry evolution across: 

• Optical and photonics simulation software platforms 

• Modern software licensing and deployment models (onpremise, subscription, hybrid enterprise) 

• Highperformance computing, GPU acceleration, cloudnative architectures, and scalable SaaS models 

• AIenabled design, simulation, and automation workflows 

• Identify and develop new growth opportunities by combining software technologies across DES business units, leveraging Keysight’s scale to address highvalue customer workflows and emerging market needs. 

• Drive portfolio focus and differentiation by prioritizing highimpact software use cases, target markets, and competitive positioning within a rapidly evolving simulation and engineering software ecosystem. 

• Ensure strong alignment with DES and Keysight strategies, integrating ODE priorities with broader software, hardware, and solutions portfolios to maximize customer value and operational leverage. 

• Build and sustain a highperforming, inclusive leadership culture, developing software engineering talent, succession, and engagement across geographies while leading effectively through change.