Product Marketing Manager

Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: Santa Clara - CA

Applied Materials

Key Responsibilities

  • Develops complex scope business & marketing plans, assesses market penetration and product positioning to drive competitive advantage, revenue and market share

  • Recommends investment decisions for new product development

  • Conducts complex competitive analysis for specific products or product lines.  Drives Red Team Analysis

  • Assists with complex pricing strategies to build and protect a leadership position in market share while enhancing profit margins and developing marketing tools for successful product introductions

  • Partners with Engineering, Manufacturing and Sales to develop new products and enhance existing products as well as communicate critical market needs and time requirements

  • Understands technical and business environments.  Assists with the development of strategies to meet business objectives

  • Supports the Field to ensure synergistic account approaches and optimization of all opportunities for account partnership and penetration

  • Manages release of complex products through the end of their product life cycle

Functional Knowledge

  • Demonstrates depth and/or breadth of expertise in own specialized discipline or field 

Business Expertise

  • Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services

Leadership

  • May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity 

Problem Solving

  • Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions

Impact

  • Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by functional policies

Interpersonal Skills

  • Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view

Must have the following experience to be considered:

  • minimum of 5 years experience working in the semiconductor industry

  • must have strong semiconductor knowledge, specifically technical knowledge of tools and/or equipment

  • ideal candidate will be knowledge in spares and services

  • ideal candidate will have knowledge supporting marketing and business objectives with a focus on obsolescence programs

  • minimum of a Bachelors Degree, ideally in an engineering discipline

U.S. Salary Range:

$152,000.00 – $209,000.00