Senior Product Marketing Manager

Responsibilities

• Maximize our market share of existing products by working with sales and customers, gaining a keen understanding of future needs of Tier1 customers
• Create new product definitions and roadmaps that will give us an edge over the competition by collaborating with Systems and Design Engineering
• Partner with Applications Engineering and Marcom to generate the tools and documentation needed to maximize the value and impact of our leading-edge Server Power products
• Manage product positioning and pricing of current products at new and existing customers and drive efforts for design wins and forecast revenue associated
• Train sales, develop tools for the direct sales team and channel partners
• Create close relationships with key decision makers at current and future lead customers in the Enterprise market
• Develop, implement, and manage plans for product launches including documentation, sales collateral, presentation and positioning to maximize the potential of new products
• For all new proposed projects, prepare Marketing Requirements Documents (MRDs), Competition and Return-on-Investment (ROI) analysis, for the basis of executive kick off reviews
• Research and analyze market opportunities, trends, and competitive pressures to develop effective product management strategies and roadmap
• Participate actively in cross-functional meetings to ensure alignment with needs of marketing and customers
• Support preparation of monthly and quarterly forecast for financial and supply management

Qualifications

• Previous direct involvement with Enterprise applications, especially servers
• Regular travel for customer meetings is required
• Extensive knowledge of the silicon chip industry and the competition and knowledge of industry standards, trends and future operator plans
• Track-record of success leading aggressive, results-driven product management and product planning strategies and initiatives
• Experience developing product roadmaps
• Extensive experience taking product from inception to commercialization, delivering on-time and the financial results targeted
• Success influencing opinions and actions of key stakeholders within their organization, customers and partners
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including market research and data gathering, ability to think / conceptualize independently and creatively, strength in building and analyzing complex financial models, and excellent business judgment and ability to synthesize, analyze and extract implications
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Experience creating and making highly effective presentations to senior management
• Strong organizational, project management, and execution skills and a demonstrated ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment
• BS + 8 years of experience, or MS + 6 years of experience, or Ph.D. + 3 years of experience

Compensation And Benefits

• MaxLinear has a Total Compensation philosophy which includes base salary and annual discretionary bonus eligibility and many positions also include stock-based compensation.
• MaxLinear's good faith estimate starting base salary range is: $ 170,000 to $ 200,000 Annually
• We offer competitive benefits designed to support employee health, welfare, and retirement and some highlights are: health care benefits, 401k savings plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), and paid time off.
• The actual starting base salary will be determined by the match to certain role-related criteria such as educational degree(s) or equivalent, relevant work experience, skillset needed for the role, and geographic location; this is not an all-inclusive list as some roles may require unique skills or experience.

About the role

• MaxLinear is a global, NASDAQ-traded company (MXL) where the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well.
• We are a fabless system-on-chip product company, striving to improve the world’s communication networks for everyone through our highly integrated radio-frequency (RF), analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for access and connectivity, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi-market applications.
• We hire the best people in the industry and engage them in some of the most exciting opportunities that connect the world we live in today.
• Our growth has come from innovative, bold approaches to solving some of the world’s most challenging communication technology problems in the most efficient and effective manner.
• MaxLinear began by developing the world’s first high-performance TV tuner chip using standard CMOS process technology. Others said we couldn’t achieve the extremely high-performance requirements using CMOS, but we proved them wrong and achieved enduring global market leadership with our designs.
• Since then, we’ve developed a full line of products that drive 4G and 5G infrastructure; enable data center, metro and long-haul optical interconnects; bring 10Gbit to the home; power the IoT revolution; and enable robust and reliable communication in harsh industrial environments.
• We have approximately 1,200 employees, a substantial majority of whom have engineering degrees and include masters and Ph.D. graduates from many of the premiere universities around the world.
• Our employees thrive on innovation, outstanding execution, outside-the-box thinking, nimbleness, and collaboration.
• Together, we form a high-energy business team that is focused on building the best and most innovative products on the market.