Head of Product Management & Marketing

Role Summary

The Head of Product Management & Marketing will own the P&L and business strategy for Ambiq's edge AI/MCU/SoC portfolio. Key responsibilities include defining the multi-year roadmap, orchestrating execution across Engineering, Sales, and Operations, and driving revenue growth and profitability.

About the Role

This role will be on-site 5 days a week in NW Austin. Ambiq is seeking a self-motivated, creative problem-solver who is eager to push technological limits and make a real impact in energy efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Own portfolio strategy, complete product lifecycles, and 3–5 year roadmaps across silicon, AI tools, SDKs, and reference solutions
• Define high-impact value propositions, positioning, and value-based pricing/packaging to maximize profitability
• Build and validate business cases (TAM/SAM/SOM, cost, margin, ROI) and prioritize investments
• Lead integrated product launches (alpha/beta, enablement, content, PR/analyst, and events)
• Partner with Sales and BD on flagship design-win strategy, funnel health, and channel programs
• Ensure the creation of powerful sales enablement assets including solution briefs, benchmarks, competitive battlecards, demos/reference designs
• Act as executive sponsor building C-level relationships with strategic customers to capture future requirements for strategic customers
• Maintain deep competitive analysis and market intelligence to guide roadmap, positioning, and messaging
• People Leadership & Operations
• Own annual planning for portfolio P&L targets, pricing strategy, and budget
• Drive tight alignment and prioritization across engineering, marketing, and sales leaders to ensure timely execution of the product roadmap and resolve critical trade-offs
• Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing team; establish clear career paths and objectives and foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and operational excellence
• Institute data-driven product operating rhythms (MRD/PRD reviews, launch gates, KPI dashboards)
• Translate customer/market needs into crisp requirements for Architecture, Silicon, Firmware, AI tools, and Software
• Partner with Applications/FAE to scale customer support, developer experience, reference designs, and ecosystems
• Collaborate with Supply Chain/Operations on forecasts and product plans

Requirements

• 15+ years in Product Management/Product Marketing for semiconductors, embedded systems, or edge AI
• 7+ years managing PM/PMM leaders and ICs
• Proven ownership of silicon + software portfolios (MCU/SoC/ASIC, SDKs, toolchains, reference designs)
• Demonstrated success taking complex technical products from concept to high-volume production
• Strong financial acumen (pricing, margin, P&L) and analytical rigor (market models, experiment design)
• Customer-facing credibility with OEM/ODM/Tier-1 partners; excellent executive communication
• Ability to synthesize architecture trade-offs (power, performance, area, BOM) into marketable value

Qualifications

• BS in EE/CE/CS (or related) required; MS/MBA preferred
• Nice to have: Experience with wearables/hearables, consumer health, industrial IoT, medical and/or vision/audio AI at the edge; Ecosystem chops: Zephyr, RTOS, TensorFlow Lite Micro/TVM, compilers/Kernels, model optimization/ML perf; Familiarity with developer marketing, communities, and reference app pipelines