Director, Product Marketing

San Jose, CA (On-site)

$209K/yr – $261K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 3 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and steer the global Edge AI PMIC strategy, shape a multi-year growth plan, and drive cross-functional initiatives from market insight to design-win execution.

  • Define roadmap and market strategy for Edge AI PMICs
  • Lead customer engagement and cross-functional collaboration to enable design wins
  • Present portfolio performance and strategic recommendations to senior leadership

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the global business strategy, multi-year growth plan, revenue outlook, and portfolio priorities for Edge AI PMIC solutions.
  • Define market segmentation, target applications, TAM/SAM/SOM, competitive positioning, pricing strategy, and investment recommendations.
  • Lead PMIC roadmap definition for AI PCs, robotics, autonomous machines, smart cameras, industrial AI, AR/VR/XR, edge servers, and intelligent networking.
  • Translate customer and platform requirements into product specifications, cost targets, launch priorities, and business cases.
  • Drive customer engagement with strategic OEMs, ODMs, processor vendors, and ecosystem partners from early architecture through design win and production ramp.
  • Partner with Sales on account strategy, opportunity qualification, funnel reviews, forecasting, and design-win conversion.
  • Collaborate globally with Engineering, Applications, Systems, Operations, Finance, and regional marketing teams.
  • Present market trends, competitive intelligence, portfolio performance, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
  • Build and mentor a high-performing product marketing organization as business scope expands

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Power Electronics, or a closely related technical field.
  • Advanced technical degree or MBA is preferred.
  • 15+ years of semiconductor industry experience, including 10+ years in product marketing, product line management, business management, strategic marketing, or technical marketing.
  • At least 5 years of direct responsibility for product portfolio revenue, gross margin, pricing, roadmap, and lifecycle decisions.
  • Demonstrated success taking semiconductor products from market requirements and business case through launch, design wins, qualification, and volume production.
  • Experience developing market models, revenue forecasts, product investment proposals, and executive-level portfolio reviews.
  • Proven record of working with global Sales, R&D, Applications, Operations, and Finance organizations.
  • Experience engaging senior technical and business leaders at OEMs, ODMs, semiconductor platform companies, or major ecosystem partners.
  • Strong working knowledge of PMIC architectures, multi-rail power trees, buck/boost/buck-boost conversion, multi-phase regulation, power sequencing, telemetry, protection, and thermal tradeoffs.
  • Understanding of CPU, GPU, NPU, AI accelerator, memory, and high-speed interface power requirements, including dynamic load behavior and power optimization.

Preferred

  • Direct product or business experience in AI PCs, Edge AI processors, robotics, smart cameras, industrial automation, AR/VR/XR, edge servers, or Physical AI systems.
  • Experience defining PMICs or power architectures for high-performance processors, AI accelerators, battery-powered AI devices, or embedded compute platforms.
  • Familiarity with NVIDIA Jetson, Qualcomm, AMD, Intel, MediaTek, Arm-based, or other Edge AI platform ecosystems.
  • Customer engagement experience with leading global OEMs and ODMs in computing, consumer, industrial, robotics, or infrastructure markets.
  • Experience with USB Power Delivery, battery charging, battery management, power-path control, or system-level power telemetry.
  • Experience creating reference designs or winning system solutions that combine PMICs with MCUs/MPUs, connectivity, sensing, battery management, and software.
  • Demonstrated success building or materially scaling a semiconductor product line, entering a new market, or establishing a new ecosystem position.
  • Existing relationships with AI processor vendors, strategic OEMs/ODMs, or power-architecture decision makers.
  • International leadership experience across North America, Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, or China.

Benefits

  • We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary.

Renesas Electronics

3.8 Glassdoor

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power. With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’

Founded in 1980
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
12K employees (704 in marketing)
70% recommend to a friend
89% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$209K/yr – $261K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($235K) is 19% above the median base salary for Product Marketing Director roles in the United States ($198K).

Product Marketing Director median pay in the United States

$198K/yr

Most pay falls between $180K and $229K. Based on 40 salaries.

See all Renesas Electronics salaries

Funding

Last Raise
Series Unknown, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2022
    Venture Round

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
954.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$10.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
60.2%
Direct
32.9%
Referral
4.9%
Social
0.9%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~11.6K

Director, Product Marketing

Renesas Electronics · San Jose, CA · On-site