Product & Marketing Manager Extended Reality

California, MO (Remote)

$109K/yr – $137K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own local market enablement and cross-functional rollout for ZEISS retail, turning market insights into actionable go-to-market actions and optimizing omnichannel execution across online and offline journeys.

  • Lead local rollout and cross-functional alignment for market enablement, including online journey and offline retail onboarding.
  • Translate insights into local product positioning, localization, and commercialization priorities with the global XR team.
  • Monitor readiness, launch performance, and customer feedback, driving local improvements with global partners.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead or support go-to-market planning, including launch readiness, channel activation, system set-up, marketing coordination, and cross-functional execution.
  • Conduct market, customer, competitor, and operational analysis and identify adoption barriers, localization needs, market constraints and operational gaps
  • Translate market insights into recommendations for product roadmap, commercialization priorities, and market improvement actions
  • Develop and adapt product positioning, messaging, and value propositions for the local market in alignment with the global XR team
  • Align cross-functional local stakeholders, including sales, marketing, operations, commercial, customer service, and regulatory
  • Local project management for market enablement incl. tracking readiness, launch progress, and execution quality
  • Lead coordination of the local rollout of online journey
  • Steer offline retail enablement in the market, including ECP selection, onboarding, staff training, and quality audits.
  • Create sales enablement tools such as product narratives, training materials, launch toolkits, and competitive guidance for commercial teams.
  • Handle customer escalation cases in alignment with local stakeholders, for example customer service, regulatory, and marketing.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of relevant professional experience managing omnichannel retail, product marketing, product management, online / offline retail, omnichannel operations, project management, stakeholder management
  • Proven track record in optical or health care industry a plus
  • Experience with international rollouts and omnichannel strategies
  • Proven track record in successfully managing multi-workstream initiatives or roadmap-related programs in a retail or B2B2C context
  • Experience managing local rollouts and coordinating cross-functional stakeholders in a matrix organization.
  • Strong understanding of product marketing fundamentals, including segmentation, positioning, messaging, launch planning, and go-to-market execution.
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills; capable of influencing at multiple levels
  • Ability to identify operational gaps, localization needs, and market constraints and translate them into practical actions.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills across sales, marketing, customer service, regulatory, retail operations, and global teams.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to track readiness, execution quality, launch performance, and customer issues in a structured way.

Preferred

  • Optional: Experience with consumer tech, medical device, optical retail
  • Optional: Experience with offline retail enablement, including partner or store onboarding, training coordination, and quality follow-up.

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Vision
  • Dental
  • 401k Matching
  • Employee Assistance Programs
  • Vacation and sick pay
  • The list goes on!
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ZEISS Group

ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. In the previous fiscal year, the ZEISS Group generated annual revenue totaling almost 12 billion euros in its four segments Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology, and Consumer Markets (September 30, 2025).For its customers, ZEISS develops, produces, and distributes highly innovative solutions for industrial metrology and quality assurance, microscopy solutions for the life sciences and materials research, and medical technology solutions for diagnostics and treatment in ophthalmology and microsurgery. The name ZEISS is also synonymous with the world's leading lithography optics, which are used by the chip industry to manufacture semiconductor components. There is global demand for trendsetting ZEISS brand products such as eyeglass lenses, camera lenses, and binoculars.With a portfolio aligned with future growth areas like digitalization, healthcare, and Smart Production and a strong brand, ZEISS is shaping the future of technology and constantly advancing the world of optics and related fields with its solutions. The company's significant, sustainable investments in research and development lay the foundation for the success and continued expansion of ZEISS' technology and market leadership. ZEISS invests 15 percent of its revenue in research and development – this high level of expenditure has a long tradition at ZEISS and is also an investment in the future.With over 46,600 employees, ZEISS is active globally in around 50 countries with more than 60 sales and service locations, around 40 research and development facilities, and 30 production facilities worldwide.Learn more about ZEISS: www.zeiss.com/aboutData privacy: www.zeiss.com/data-protectionImprint: www.zeiss.com/publisherThis is ZEISS's official LinkedIn account. It follows the ZEISS Netiquette: www.zeiss.com/netiquette

Founded in 2002
Oberkochen, Baden-Württemberg, DEU
25K employees (1,436 in marketing)