Senior Director of Product Marketing and Business Development

Redwood City, CA (Hybrid)

$280K/yr – $300K/yrSenior Level20+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own product marketing end-to-end positioning, messaging, and narrative, for a category we are creating at the intersection of AI and semiconductor design
  • Translate complex, deeply technical capabilities into clear value propositions for engineering leaders, executives, and partners
  • Build and lead the go-to-market strategy for new products and features, partnering closely with product, engineering, and sales
  • Drive business development: identify, structure, and close strategic partnerships across foundries, EDA vendors, semiconductor companies, and ecosystem players
  • Develop the competitive intelligence, analyst relations, and market insights that shape product direction and company strategy
  • Create sales enablement-content, demos, and tools-that equips the team to win technical, high-consideration deals
  • Build and mentor a high-performing product marketing and business development function as the company scales

Requirements

  • MS/MEng degree required; MBA or business degree preferred
  • 20+ years in product marketing, business development, or a combination, including several years in a leadership role
  • Track record marketing deeply technical products-semiconductors, EDA, developer tools, infrastructure, or AI/ML platforms
  • Demonstrated success building and closing strategic partnerships or complex commercial deals
  • Ability to go deep with engineers and scientists and translate that fluency into market-facing narrative
  • Experience building go-to-market motions from the ground up in an early-stage or high-growth environment
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication; you can make hard technology feel inevitable
  • Comfortable operating with ambiguity in a dynamic, research-heavy AI-oriented startup environment

Preferred

  • Working knowledge of chip design, EDA workflows, or semiconductor supply chains
  • Existing relationships across the semiconductor or EDA ecosystem
  • Domain knowledge in AI technologies, infrastructure, and model ecosystem
  • Experience launching a new product category or defining a new market
  • A background that blends technical depth (engineering or computer science) with commercial leadership
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Cognichip

Cognichip is developing the world’s first Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI®) to reimagine chip design. Founded by experts from Amazon, Google, Apple, Aquantia, Synopsys, and KLA, the company tackles high cost and inaccessibility in chip development, enabling hardware to evolve as quickly as AI software innovation.Backed by $33 million in seed funding from Mayfield, Lux Capital, FPV, and Candou Ventures, Cognichip’s ACI® features a first-of-its-kind physics-informed foundation model, purposely built for semiconductors. ACI® accelerates innovation and broadens access to semiconductor technology by making it easier, more affordable, and accessible to a broader range of innovators.

Founded in 2024
Redwood City, California, USA
57 employees (1 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$280K/yr – $300K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$93M
Last Raise
$60M
Series A, 6 days ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2026
    Series A • $60M
  • May 2025
    Seed • $33M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
8.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
48.4%
Direct
33.7%
Referral
6.4%
Social
9.9%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~61