Sr. Product Marketing Manager

San Jose, CA (On-site)

$154K/yr – $286K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the PCIe and CXL IP story, translating market needs into a concrete product definition and value proposition for AI/HPC, data-center, and chiplet environments.

Responsibilities: own roadmap input, market requirements, and competitive positioning for PCIe and CXL IP, guiding engineering tradeoffs and collateral.
Engagement: lead customer and ecosystem conversations to shape system-level requirements and use cases across data center, storage, networking, and automotive segments.
Market intelligence: track PCI-SIG, CXL, NVMe and related ecosystem shifts to drive senior-management recommendations and cross-functional alignment.

Job Description

Own roadmap input, market requirements, and product definition for PCIe and CXL Controller IP based on customer needs, market trends, competitive analysis, standards evolution, market segmentation, and SWOT analysis.
Define and execute competitive marketing strategies for the PCIe and CXL Controller IP portfolio in partnership with SerDes marketing, engineering, sales, program management, and application engineering.
Engage with lead customers and ecosystem partners to understand system-level requirements, including AI / HPC infrastructure, data center accelerators, storage, networking, automotive, and advanced SoC / chiplet use cases.
Translate complex technical requirements into actionable product requirements, value propositions, competitive positioning, product briefs, presentations, white papers, web content, and sales enablement tools.
Collaborate with engineering teams on controller portfolio planning, including protocol feature priorities, configurability, integration requirements, compliance considerations, validation readiness, and collateral needs.
Support design-win activities by helping sales and field teams position Cadence IP against competitive alternatives, respond to RFIs/RFPs, and articulate differentiation at both technical and executive levels.
Track industry standards and ecosystem developments, including PCI-SIG, CXL Consortium, NVMe, AMBA / Arm interconnects, and related SoC / platform interface trends.
Represent and evangelize Cadence PCIe and CXL Controller IP at customer meetings, industry events, webinars, conferences, and on appropriate digital channels.
Synthesize unstructured customer, market, and competitive data into clear recommendations for senior management and cross-functional stakeholders.
Identify creative solutions to product, positioning, and customer-engagement challenges while operating with strong ownership, urgency, and cross-functional collaboration.

Cadence

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Cadence is a market leader in AI and digital twins, pioneering the application of computational software to accelerate innovation in the engineering design of silicon to systems. Our design solutions, based on Cadence’s Intelligent System DesignTM strategy, are essential for the world’s leading semiconductor and systems companies to build their next-generation products from chips to full electromechanical systems that serve a wide range of markets, including hyperscale computing, mobile communications, automotive, aerospace, industrial, life sciences and robotics. In 2024, Cadence was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the world’s top 100 best-managed companies. Cadence solutions offer limitless opportunities—learn more at www.cadence.com.

Founded in 1988

San Jose, California, USA

11K employees (393 in marketing)

www.cadence.com

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