Product Marketing Manager - Microelectronics Wastewater

Naperville, IL (On-site)

$121K/yr – $181K/yrMid Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and drive the market strategy for wastewater and reclaim offerings in the microelectronics space, turning customer insights, regulatory trends, and competitive intelligence into MRDs, positioning, messaging, and go-to-market plans with close collaboration across R&D, marketing, and sales.

  • Define product positioning, value propositions, and differentiation
  • Lead market requirements and roadmap alignment with technical teams
  • Collaborate on pricing, portfolio decisions, and commercialization planning

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Assess, analyze and summarize insights related to market applications, competitive technologies, and customer needs.
  • Assess and quantify the opportunity size and business case.
  • Develop and own the product marketing strategy for wastewater and reclaim offerings in the microelectronics industry.
  • Translate customer needs, voice-of-customer input, technical constraints, regulatory trends, sustainability drivers, and competitive intelligence into formal Market Requirements Documents (MRDs).
  • Define clear product positioning, value propositions, messaging, and differentiation versus key competitors.
  • Partner with R&D and Industry Technical Consultants to provide market direction and customer insights during technical qualification, field validation, and commercialization planning.
  • Contribute to pricing, portfolio, bundling, and program decisions by using market research, customer insight, competitive analysis, and commercial data to inform recommendations.
  • Partner with the broader Marketing team to support go-to-market execution, including sales enablement materials, product presentations, and customer-facing content.
  • Engage directly with global customers to discuss offerings, gather voice-of-customer insights, and shape market-backed recommendations for future roadmap priorities.
  • Author white papers, technical knowledge documents, and abstracts that elevate Ecolab’s positioning.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Biology or a related field with 7 years of professional experience including 3 years of product marketing experience OR Master’s degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering or a related field with 5 years of professional experience including 2 years of product marketing experience
  • Technical understanding of wastewater design and operations (including, but not limited to metals removal, acid neutralization, fluoride precipitation, ion exchange, biological systems, reclaim technologies)
  • Immigration sponsorship not available for this role

Preferred

  • Experience in semiconductor wastewater design and/or operational background
  • Experience with capital equipment or industrial solutions preferred
  • Experience in advanced reclaim technologies supporting Zero Liquid Discharge
  • Proven ability to translate technical features and product capabilities into customer value, business impact, and differentiated messaging
  • Experience partnering with R&D and engineering teams on innovation development, field trials, market tests, and/or commercialization
  • Strong verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
  • Strong project management skills

Benefits

  • Ecolab strives to provide comprehensive and market-competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families. Click here to see our benefits.
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Ecolab

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A trusted partner for millions of customers, Ecolab (NYSE:ECL) is a global sustainability leader offering water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services that protect people and the resources vital to life. Building on more than a century of innovation, Ecolab has annual sales of $16 billion, employs approximately 48,000 associates and operates in more than 170 countries around the world. The company delivers comprehensive science-based solutions, data-driven insights and world-class service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, and optimize water and energy use. Ecolab’s innovative solutions improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, high tech, life sciences, hospitality and industrial markets.For more Ecolab news and information, visit www.ecolab.com.

Founded in 1923
St Paul, Minnesota, USA
46K employees (1,518 in marketing)
69% recommend to a friend
75% CEO approval

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