Product Manager Actionable Insight Accelerator (AIx) Strategic Initiatives (Software Platform)

Who We Are

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world.

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What Youll Do

We are looking for a Software Product Manager to drive key strategic initiatives on the AIx platform.

This role focuses on building core platform capabilitiesAPIs services data flows workflow integrations and telemetrythat support multiple AIenabled applications across the organization.

Youll define clear requirements work closely with engineering and UX guide releases and ensure the platform is reliable easy to adopt and aligned with business goals. This role requires technical depth strong communication and the ability to lead crossfunctional efforts.

Key Responsibilities:

Product Planning & Prioritization

• Develop a practical achievable roadmap for AIx platform initiatives.

• Prioritize work based on user needs technical constraints and business impact.

• Translate strategy into clear objectives and success metrics.

Requirements & Specifications

• Write concise PRDs and user stories for APIs backend services data contracts and workflow features.

• Define essential nonfunctional requirements (performance reliability security and usability).

• Work with architects and engineers to align on feasible scalable technical designs.

Execution & Delivery

• Manage the product backlog and lead sprint rituals with engineering.

• Validate builds against acceptance criteria and support release planning.

• Ensure quality through standard SDLC practicestesting documentation and change management.

User Experience & Adoption

• Partner with UX to define intuitive workflows and ensure features fit naturally into users daytoday tools.

• Gather feedback from users and internal stakeholders; translate it into actionable improvements.

• Support onboarding adoption and crossteam enablement.

Monitoring & Continuous Improvement

• Define KPIs for availability performance adoption and usage patterns.

• Collaborate with engineering to build dashboards and telemetry.

• Use metrics to refine priorities and guide incremental improvements.

Qualifications

• 510 years in Software Product Management or Technical Program Management.

• Bachelors or Masters in a technical field (Engineering CS Data etc.) or equivalent experience.

• Experience shipping platform features (APIs services backend systems developer tools).

• Familiarity with AIassisted workflows data pipelines or enterprise SaaS is a plus but not required.

• Strong technical literacy (APIs data models service architecture basics).

• Excellent communication and ability to explain trade-offs in simple terms.

• Strong problemsolving and decisionmaking abilities.

• Comfort working with engineers designers and crossfunctional teams.

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The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location hire grade job-related knowledge skills experience and with consideration of internal equity of our current team addition to a comprehensive benefits package candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program as applicable.

For all sales roles the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

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