Senior Product Marketing Manager - Emerging IoT Systems

Schneider Innovations • Monrovia, CA

14d • Onsite

About The Position

We are hiring a Senior Product Marketing Manager to own system-level market and product judgment for complex and high-risk product initiatives.
This role exists to bring early clarity to product decisions that involve significant uncertainty and downstream cost. The focus is not on execution volume, but on determining whether a system should be built, how it should be scoped or simplified, and when assumptions no longer justify continued investment.
This is a senior role with meaningful influence across product direction, portfolio decisions, and leadership discussions. Currently this role reports directly to CEO.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Product Marketing, Product Management, or closely related roles
• Experience working with complex, system-level products (smart devices, hardware + software, regulated or high-cost products preferred)
• Proven ability to influence high-stakes product decisions under uncertainty
• Demonstrated experience making or contributing to difficult product trade-offs, including scope reduction, simplification, or stopping initiatives
• Strong system-level judgment and comfort operating with incomplete information
• Ability to identify critical assumptions and design practical validation paths
• Excellent written and verbal communication for executive-level decision-making
• Comfort challenging momentum and surfacing risks early
• Ability to connect user experience, system complexity, and lifetime economics
• Structured thinker who produces decision-ready inputs and uses analytical or AI tools to support scenario comparison, stress testing, and trade-off analysis
• Comfortable using AI-powered tools as part of daily work, including market research, competitive analysis, and insight synthesis
• Able to apply AI tools to structure thinking, explore alternative hypotheses, and pressure-test product and market assumptions
• Fluency in written and spoken Chinese (Mandarin) is required

Nice To Haves

• Experience building repeatable AI-assisted workflows to improve research depth, speed, and decision quality is a strong plus

Responsibilities

• Own system-level market and product judgment for complex or high-risk product initiatives across the full lifecycle, from early concept through post-launch learning
• Identify and validate critical assumptions around user behavior, willingness to pay, experience complexity, and long-term value
• Evaluate trade-offs across user value, system complexity, technical constraints, cost structure, and lifetime economics, and provide clear Go / Pivot / Stop recommendations
• Assess products as end-to-end systems, identifying experience breakpoints that materially impact adoption, retention, support burden, and returns
• Build and pressure-test LTV and unit economics to inform product scope, pricing logic, monetization structure, and lifecycle decisions
• Define go-to-market direction for complex launches, including target segments, channel priorities, and success metrics, with clarity on who the product is for—and who it is not for
• Translate launch and early usage learnings into recommendations for iteration, simplification, repositioning, or exit
• Act as a senior market and user voice in product and leadership decision forums
• Partner with Product Management, R&D, and Operations to align system scope and downstream execution with validated assumptions
• Influence decisions through clarity, evidence, and structured judgment rather than authority

Benefits

• Competitive starting base salary with upside based on scope and experience
• Performance-based bonus tied to scope, decision quality and revenue impact
• Comprehensive health benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life, FSA, HSA, etc.)
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Tenure-based PTO and holidays
• Employee discounts on company products
• Potential business travel opportunities to China and Asia regions
• Visa sponsorship opportunities, including H-1B and employment-based Green Card sponsorship, for qualified candidates

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed