Principal Product Marketing Manager

San Jose, CA (On-site)

$227K/yr – $278K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 13 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and drive SambaRack and SambaStack positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategy, including launch planning, enablement content, and competitive differentiation across enterprise AI audiences.

  • Define portfolio story and customer value proposition
  • Lead GTM strategy, enablement, and field execution

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own positioning, messaging, value propositions, personas, priority use cases, packaging narratives, and competitive differentiation for SambaRack and SambaStack
  • Define the portfolio story that connects purpose-built RDU hardware, rack-level infrastructure, full-stack software, model serving, and deployment flexibility into a clear customer value proposition
  • Build differentiated messaging for enterprise AI teams, infrastructure leaders, data center operators, inference providers, sovereign AI initiatives, technical evaluators, partners, and the field
  • Lead go-to-market strategy and launch planning for major SambaRack and SambaStack capabilities, working across Product, Engineering, Sales, Communications, Developer Relations, Partner Marketing, and Design
  • Develop high-quality sales enablement, including pitch decks, solution presentations, one-pagers, battlecards, discovery guidance, objection handling, competitive plays, and executive-ready content
  • Create market-facing content such as product briefs, web copy, launch assets, blogs, customer presentations, thought leadership, and solution narratives
  • Partner with Technical Product Marketing to translate deployment experience, technical proof, and demonstrations into sharper positioning and more useful seller guidance
  • Work with Account Executives and Field Marketing to refine product messaging around customer needs, activate it through field and regional programs, and build scalable enablement for customer conversations
  • Equip sales, solutions, partners, and customer-facing teams with repeatable training and content; measure adoption and improve materials based on field feedback
  • Lead market, customer, and competitive research to identify emerging needs, sharpen differentiation, inform roadmap discussions, and improve go-to-market priorities

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in B2B product marketing, product strategy, technical product marketing, or a closely related role, including ownership of complex enterprise technology portfolios
  • Deep fluency in AI infrastructure, enterprise AI, semiconductors, data center systems, cloud platforms, or another technically complex market
  • A track record of creating differentiated positioning for integrated hardware-software products and translating it into launches, sales enablement, content, and measurable go-to-market outcomes
  • Exceptional writing, editing, presentation, and narrative-development skills across executive, business, field, and technical audiences
  • Strong strategic judgment paired with a willingness to build the deck, write the one-pager, develop the battlecard, edit the web page, and deliver the training
  • Experience influencing executive leaders and coordinating Product, Engineering, Technical Product Marketing, Account Executives, Field Marketing, Communications, Design, and partner stakeholders without direct authority
  • Ability to operate independently, prioritize high-leverage work, and bring structure to ambiguity in a fast-moving environment

Preferred

  • Experience marketing AI inference platforms, accelerator systems, turnkey data center products, full-stack enterprise platforms, or cloud infrastructure
  • Experience developing product and portfolio strategy across related hardware and software offerings
  • Experience building a sales enablement program with measurable adoption, field readiness, and business impact
  • Familiarity with enterprise buyers, infrastructure decision-makers, technical evaluators, inference providers, partner ecosystems, and managed-service use cases
  • Experience leading category creation, a major product launch, competitive repositioning, or a portfolio-wide messaging transformation
  • A portfolio of high-quality positioning, launch, enablement, thought-leadership, or product-marketing work

Benefits

  • SambaNova offers a competitive total rewards package, including the base salary, plus equity and benefits. We cover 95% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, and 77% premium coverage for dependents and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution. We also offer Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans in addition to Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options like Health Care, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care. Our library of well-being benefits available to you and your dependents includes a full subscription to Headspace, Gympass+ membership with access to physical gyms, One Medical membership, counseling services with an Employee Assistance Program, and much more.
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Welcome to SambaNova: Revolutionizing AI CapacityAt SambaNova, we're empowering developers, enterprises, governments, and data centers to unlock their full AI potential. Our full-stack infrastructure, from chips to models, enables lightning-fast performance, low power consumption, and high-efficiency computing.Our MissionTo give every developer, enterprise, government and data center absolute sovereignty over their own data, models and AI infrastructure – to future-proof the AI workloads that will power and scale tomorrow.Our TechnologyWe give our customers the optionality to experience SambaNova through the cloud or on-premise.Samba Cloud delivers the fastest inferences on the largest open source models like Llama 4 and DeepSeek. Developers can get started building in minutes with our OpenAI compatible APIs. All customers start on the developer tier and when they need more capacity can scale into our enterprise tier.SambaStack is our on-premise offering which includes the system, the platform, and foundation models. These components combine into a powerful technology stack that delivers unparalleled performance, ease of use, accuracy, data privacy, and the ability to power every use case across the world's largest organizations.SambaManaged is a modular and ready-to-deploy AI cloud designed to deliver unmatched efficiency for data centers and cloud service providers. This solution allows organizations to quickly deploy advanced AI inference services—without the need for costly infrastructure upgrades or specialized expertise—in as little as 90 days.At the heart of SambaNova innovation is the Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU). Purpose built for AI workloads, the RDU takes advantage of a dataflow architecture and a three-tiered memory design. The three tiers of memory enable the platform to run hundreds of models on a single node and to switch between them in microseconds. In 2023, SambaNova released its 4th generation RDU chip, the SN40L.

Founded in 2017
San Jose, California, USA
405 employees (25 in marketing)
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$227K/yr – $278K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
7 (2% of company)
Median Tenure
1.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
8

Funding

Total Funding
$2.5B
Last Raise
$1B
Series F

Funding History

  • Jul 2026
    Series F • $1B
  • Feb 2026
    Series E • $350M
  • Oct 2023
    Secondary Market

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
197.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$4.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.2%
Direct
39.8%
Referral
4.5%
Social
8.8%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~405

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Principal Product Marketing Manager

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