Product Marketing Manager

About the role

Applied Materials, a global leader in materials engineering solutions for chips and advanced displays, is hiring a Product Marketing professional in Santa Clara, CA. The role covers complex business and marketing planning, competitive analysis, pricing strategy and product launches, working across Engineering, Manufacturing and Sales.

Key responsibilities

• Develop complex business and marketing plans, assessing market penetration and product positioning to drive competitive advantage, revenue and market share.
• Recommend investment decisions for new product development.
• Conduct complex competitive analysis for specific products or product lines and drive Red Team Analysis.
• Assist with complex pricing strategies to build and protect market share while improving profit margins, and develop marketing tools for product introductions.
• Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing and Sales to develop new and enhanced products and communicate market needs and time requirements.
• Support the Field to ensure synergistic account approaches and optimize account partnership and penetration opportunities.
• Manage the release of complex products through the end of their product life cycle.

Required profile

• Depth and/or breadth of expertise in a specialized discipline.
• Ability to interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices.
• Ability to lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk and complexity.
• Ability to lead others in solving complex problems and to communicate difficult concepts and negotiate different viewpoints.

What we offer

• Salary of $152,000 to $208,500, depending on location, hire grade, knowledge, skills, experience and internal equity.
• Comprehensive benefits package, with possible eligibility for a bonus and a stock award program.
• Full-time, regular employee position with travel of about 10% of the time; relocation eligible.