Platform & Robotics Solutions Product Management & Marketing
Santa Clara County, CA - USA
Job Summary
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.
What We Offer
Salary:
$152000.00 - $208500.00Location:
Santa ClaraCAYoull benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn develop and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possiblewhile learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more.
At Applied Materials we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. Were committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work at home or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits.
Core Responsibilities
Inbound Discovery & Platform Thinking
- Act as a systems thinker who identifies value synergies across products platforms and teams.
- Lead customer and field discovery to uncover crossproduct pain points workflow gaps and integration friction.
- Translate customer needs into platformlevel automation software requirements guardrails and capability definitions.
Roadmap & Value Definition
- Partner closely with engineering and product teams to:
- Define platform roadmaps
- Articulate the why behind priorities
- Ensure solutions scale across use cases and segments
- Help define success metrics (adoption timetovalue reuse attach customer outcomes).
PMM COE (Center of Excellence) Enablement
- Contribute to PMM/PM COE best practices:
- Customer insight frameworks
- Value articulation templates
- Platform narrative consistency
- Enable field sales and solution teams with clear platform stories and integration guidance.
Technical & CrossFunctional Leadership
- Rapidly learn complex technical domains and connect dots across HW SW and COE systems.
- Be comfortable challenging assumptions asking why and proposing alternative approaches.
- Influence engineering teams through clarity of vision and customer evidence not hierarchy. Dont just ask and accept roadmaps as is think critically challenge and independently propose ideas that have potential to contribute to pipeline.
Outbound Support (as an Extension of Inbound)
- Support solution narratives enablement content and reference architectures rooted in inbound insights.
- Ensure outbound materials reflect real customer workflows not just feature aggregation.
- Mastery in customer presentation excellent communication
Success Profile
- Background in robotics controls sensors and HW platforms
- Strong technical foundation with customer empathy
- Bias for action and structured thinking
- Ability to zoom in (details) and out (platform strategy)
- Natural collaborator who builds trust with engineering
Business Expertise
- Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products processes or services
Leadership
- May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements risk and/or complexity
Problem Solving
- Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions
Impact
- Impacts the achievement of customer operational project or service objectives; work is guided by functional policies
Interpersonal Skills
- Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view
Additional Information
Time Type:
Full timeEmployee Type:
Assignee / RegularTravel:
Yes 20% of the TimeRelocation Eligible:
NoThe 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.
Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin citizenship ancestry religion creed sex sexual orientation gender identity age disability veteran or military status or any other basis prohibited by law.
About Company
Applied Materials, Inc. is the global leader in materials engineering solutions for the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic (PV) industries.