Senior Product Marketing Manager - Embedded Software
Silicon Labs · Austin, TX · 4 mo ago
HybridMarketing$125k–$231k/yrFull-time
About the role
Silicon Labs is seeking a Senior Product Marketing Manager – Embedded Software to lead the software product marketing efforts for Broad Market Products. This role will also serve as the BU-wide integration lead for software planning, prioritization, and release alignment.
Responsibilities
- Set and drive the broad market software strategy across Silicon Labs’ wireless IoT portfolio to improve developer experience, reduce friction, and increase mass-market adoption.
- Own the end-to-end developer experience for broad market products: SDKs, SDK packaging, tools/workflows, dev kits, reference apps, documentation, onboarding content, training, and community enablement.
- Develop and manage software launch and readiness for broad market products—ensuring internal and external enablement assets are complete, consistent, and measurable.
- Define and execute software-focused ecosystem partnerships (cloud/platform, RTOS/OS, tooling, middleware) that accelerate adoption and strengthen portfolio differentiation.
- Define and monitor adoption and customer experience metrics (e.g., time-to-first-build, eval-to-design-in conversion, tool usage, top support drivers, net promoter score) to inform decision-making and drive continuous improvement based on insights.
- Lead BU-wide software prioritization and release planning across Broad Market and Segments (Commercial, Home, Industrial, Life); represent a unified BU view in planning forums with Software Product Management and R&D, driving alignment on priorities and trade-offs.
- Communicate clear prioritization rationale using customer impact, revenue/design-in potential, time-to-value, quality, and strategic differentiation.
- Identify and translate market and customer needs into engineering-ready requirements at the 2nd/3rd level of detail; communicate technical and business implications to inform decisions.
- Partner with global stakeholders including leadership, Product Marketing, Product Management, Engineering/R&D, Program/Project Management, Sales/FAEs, Support/Apps, and Community to align roadmaps, priorities, release readiness, and stakeholder communications.
- Implement repeatable mechanisms (prioritization frameworks, readiness scorecards, voice-of-market intake, top support driver analysis, and post-release learnings) to improve execution quality and predictability.
Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
- Minimum of 10+ years of industry experience in IoT/wireless/embedded/semiconductors, including 5+ years in software product marketing or software product management.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle processes and release management.
- Proven track record of leading software planning, prioritization, and release execution and demonstrated ability to influence roadmap trade-offs across multiple business stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of wireless IoT markets, ecosystems, and technologies including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 802.15.4 (Zigbee/Thread/Matter), sub-GHz, and edge compute.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical topics into crisp, decision-ready narratives and enablement content.
Benefits & Perks
- Great medical (Choice of PPO or Consumer Driven Health Plan with HSA), dental and vision plans.
- Highly competitive salary.
- 401k plan with match and Roth plan option.
- Equity rewards (RSUs).
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
- Life/AD&D and disability coverage.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Legal benefits.
- Pet insurance.
- Free downtown parking.
- Onsite gym.
- Monthly wellness offerings.
- Free snacks.
- Monthly company updates with our CEO.