Senior Product Marketing Manager

MaxLinear • San Jose, CA

17d • Onsite

About The Position

MaxLinear is seeking a Senior Product Marketing Manager to join our growing team. In this role, you will focus on maximizing market share of existing products by working with sales and customers, gaining a keen understanding of future needs of Tier1 customers. You will create new product definitions and roadmaps that will give us an edge over the competition by collaborating with Systems and Design Engineering. You will partner with Applications Engineering and Marcom to generate the tools and documentation needed to maximize the value and impact of our leading-edge Server Power products. You will manage product positioning and pricing of current products at new and existing customers and drive efforts for design wins and forecast revenue. You will train sales, develop tools for the direct sales team and channel partners, and create close relationships with key decision makers at current and future lead customers in the Enterprise market. You will develop, implement, and manage plans for product launches including documentation, sales collateral, presentation and positioning to maximize the potential of new products. For all new proposed projects, you will prepare Marketing Requirements Documents (MRDs), Competition and Return-on-Investment (ROI) analysis, for the basis of executive kick off reviews. You will research and analyze market opportunities, trends, and competitive pressures to develop effective product management strategies and roadmap. You will participate actively in cross-functional meetings to ensure alignment with needs of marketing and customers and support preparation of monthly and quarterly forecast for financial and supply management.

Requirements

• Previous direct involvement with Enterprise applications, especially servers
• Regular travel for customer meetings is required
• Extensive knowledge of the silicon chip industry and the competition and knowledge of industry standards, trends and future operator plans
• Track-record of success leading aggressive, results-driven product management and product planning strategies and initiatives
• Experience developing product roadmaps
• Extensive experience taking product from inception to commercialization, delivering on-time and the financial results targeted
• Success influencing opinions and actions of key stakeholders within their organization, customers and partners
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including market research and data gathering, ability to think / conceptualize independently and creatively, strength in building and analyzing complex financial models, and excellent business judgment and ability to synthesize, analyze and extract implications
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Experience creating and making highly effective presentations to senior management
• Strong organizational, project management, and execution skills and a demonstrated ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment
• BS + 8 years of experience, or MS + 6 years of experience, or Ph.D. + 3 years of experience

Responsibilities

• Maximize our market share of existing products by working with sales and customers, gaining a keen understanding of future needs of Tier1 customers
• Create new product definitions and roadmaps that will give us an edge over the competition by collaborating with Systems and Design Engineering
• Partner with Applications Engineering and Marcom to generate the tools and documentation needed to maximize the value and impact of our leading-edge Server Power products
• Manage product positioning and pricing of current products at new and existing customers and drive efforts for design wins and forecast revenue
• Train sales, develop tools for the direct sales team and channel partners
• Create close relationships with key decision makers at current and future lead customers in the Enterprise market
• Develop, implement, and manage plans for product launches including documentation, sales collateral, presentation and positioning to maximize the potential of new products
• Prepare Marketing Requirements Documents (MRDs), Competition and Return-on-Investment (ROI) analysis, for the basis of executive kick off reviews
• Research and analyze market opportunities, trends, and competitive pressures to develop effective product management strategies and roadmap
• Participate actively in cross-functional meetings to ensure alignment with needs of marketing and customers
• Support preparation of monthly and quarterly forecast for financial and supply management

Benefits

• base salary
• annual discretionary bonus eligibility
• stock-based compensation
• health care benefits
• 401k savings plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree