Sr. Product Marketing Manager

Kentucky, USA (On-site)

$190K/yr – $220K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own the go-to-market and product-marketing efforts for Ambarella’s robotics, drones, and Physical AI markets, shaping GTM strategy, customer engagement, and cross-functional execution across engineering, sales, and partners.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support product marketing for Ambarella in an assigned subset of robotics, drones / UAVs, machine vision, industrial automation, and adjacent Physical AI end markets.
  • Develop go-to-market strategy, including product definition (hardware and software), internal engineering deliverables, external branding, demonstrations, tradeshows.
  • Establish a worldwide target customer list and work with sales and partnership team to penetrate target accounts as well as maintain relationships at current accounts across OEMs, ODMs, module makers, system integrators, ISVs, and industrial / robotics / drone customers.
  • Support and drive program management for key DevZone initiatives and related GTM programs by working cross-functionally with product marketing, channels & partnerships, and engineering teams.
  • Be the link between the customer and our internal sales and FAE teams. Manage both the technical and business aspects of customer interactions.
  • Gather customers’ requirements and feedback to the engineering team, translating field insights into prioritized product and software requirements.
  • Create and maintain sales and partner enablement: positioning, messaging, product/application briefs, competitive materials, demos, case studies, and web content for technical and commercial consumers.
  • Work with the engineering teams to define software, chips, and feature roadmaps for robotics, drones, machine vision, and industrial automation use cases.
  • Support organization of tradeshows, webinars, customer workshops, and partner events; assist marketing before and during shows with technical and commercial credibility.
  • Regional and international travel approximately up to 30%, primarily for customer and partner meetings, events, and workshops.

Requirements

  • BA/B.Sc. in Computer Science, EE, or related field; advanced degree a plus.
  • Must have experience in the semiconductor industry (hardware, embedded, and/or SoC + software platforms).
  • 5+ years of experience in a similar senior product marketing or product management position.
  • Successful track record of developing new markets and/or growing a partner / ISV / developer ecosystem.
  • Working knowledge of artificial intelligence, video/imaging, and edge AI; familiarity with robotics, drones, machine vision, industrial automation, or Physical AI is highly preferable.
  • Working familiarity with hardware, embedded software, and AI concepts sufficient to engage engineering teams and technical customers on both product definition and go-to-market.
  • Experience combining product marketing with product management and/or program management (requirements, roadmap, cross-functional execution, and launch ownership), especially for developer platforms or SDKs, is highly desired.
  • Excellent presentation and communication skills; able to move between executive narrative and technical depth.
  • Strong cross-functional leadership with sales, FAE/apps, engineering, and external partners.
  • Availability to travel WW, up to 30% of the time.

Preferred

  • Direct experience marketing or managing developer platforms, Model Gardens / model zoos, SDKs, or low-code/no-code AI tooling.
  • Experience with industrial cameras, stereovision, SLAM / visual odometry, sensor fusion, aerial drones / UAVs, AMRs/cobots, or factory/warehouse automation applications.
  • Prior work with ISVs, ODMs, module vendors, or system integrators in an open-ecosystem GTM model.
  • Experience organizing or supporting major industry events (CES, Automate, robotics, drone, and industrial / embedded vision shows) and live technical demonstrations.

Benefits

  • new-hire RSU grants and the opportunity for annual RSU grants, as well as other highly competitive benefits.
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Ambarella

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With an installed base of more than 42 million AI SoC units, Ambarella’s products are utilized in a wide variety of physical edge AI applications, spanning edge endpoint and edge infrastructure use cases including physical security, vehicle safety, telematics, autonomy, portable video, aerial drones, and other emerging robotic applications. Building on this footprint, Ambarella offers a full-stack edge AI platform, from highly optimized silicon and programmable software to AI agentic frameworks that coordinate perception, decision-making and control across devices. Ambarella’s low-power systems-on-chip (SoCs) integrate proprietary and highly efficient perception and deep learning neural network AI accelerators, enabling electronic systems to become more productive with partial or complete levels of machine autonomy.

Founded in 2004
Santa Clara, California, USA
800 employees (37 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$190K/yr – $220K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
16 (2% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$38.5M
Last Raise
$15.4M
Private Equity

Funding History

  • Jan 2012
    Private Equity
  • Feb 2006
    Series C • $15.4M
  • Aug 2004
    Series B • $13M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
103.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
26.1%
Direct
66%
Referral
4%
Social
1%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~801

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