Sr. Manager, Strategic Marketing & AI Enablement

A Day in Your Life:

As the Sr Manager Strategic Marketing & AI Enablement you will develop marketing strategy investment recommendations market insights and growth plans to strengthen MKSs market position and profitability while accelerating practical AI adoption across Strategic Marketing and related functions. You will be reporting to the VP of Strategic Marketing.

This role blends strategic marketing leadership with hands-on AI enablement. Roughly 50% of the role focuses on market product investment and growth strategy while the other 50% focuses on identifying designing and implementing AI-enabled workflows automation and agentic capabilities that enhance decision-making market intelligence and productivity.

You Will Make an Impact By:

• Support strategic planning for assigned divisions and product lines.

• Develop and execute product investment portfolio and pricing strategies that drive innovation differentiation and profitability.

• Analyze market customer competitive technology and business intelligence to identify trends opportunities and growth priorities.

• Create executive-level market intelligence including market sizing competitor assessments technology roadmaps and strategic recommendations.

• Support M&A evaluations strategic partnerships and investment decisions through research and analysis.

• Contribute to operating plans and executive Board customer and analyst presentations.

• Partner with business and technology leaders to influence product customer market and technology strategies.

• Collaborate with the Office of the CTO to assess emerging technologies applications and innovation opportunities.

AI Enablement and Automation Responsibilities:

• Identify opportunities to apply AI generative AI predictive analytics and automation to improve strategic marketing market intelligence and planning processes.

• Design and implement AI-enabled tools and workflows that enhance the speed quality and accessibility of business insights.

• Lead development of AI use cases such as market monitoring competitive intelligence document summarization customer insight analysis and executive dashboards.

• Partner with cross-functional teams to define requirements evaluate solutions and ensure alignment with business objectives and enterprise standards.

• Drive adoption through training change management and responsible AI governance including data quality security and compliance.

• Stay current on emerging AI and automation capabilities recommending practical applications that deliver measurable business value.

What You Will Bring to the Team:

• Bachelors degree (Engineering degree is preferred) and 8 years of experience in technical product marketing strategic marketing corporate strategy market intelligence business development or related roles within technology industrial semiconductor electronics or advanced manufacturing industries.

• Applicable Advanced degree/mix of coursework/education will be considered as experience.

• 2 years of experience with data analytics and visualization tools (e.g. Tableau Power BI) large language models and AI-enabled workflows. Experience with agentic AI is strongly preferred.

• Proven success developing market product portfolio investment or growth strategies in complex business environments.

• Experience leading AI automation analytics or digital transformation initiatives that improve business performance decision-making or productivity.

• Working knowledge of generative AI AI agents workflow automation business intelligence and enterprise AI tools with the ability to balance AI capabilities with human judgment.

• Experience translating business requirements and partnering with IT data technical teams vendors or consultants to deliver digital and AI-enabled solutions.

• Familiarity with generative AI platforms AI agents large language models business intelligence tools data visualization APIs Python and SQL preferred. Deep software engineering expertise is not required.

Other:

• Strong research analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize technical market financial and customer insights into actionable recommendations.

• Strong business acumen and the ability to connect technology trends market dynamics customer needs and financial outcomes.

• Demonstrated leadership and influence skills with success working across large complex matrixed organizations.

• Excellent written verbal and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams executives and customers.

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives from concept through implementation adoption and continuous improvement.

• Commitment to data integrity confidentiality responsible AI practices and high-quality business recommendations.

In addition to the above responsibilities the following are considered material job dutiesofthe position:

• Ability to take and follow directions and instructions.

• Ability to interact with other employees customers suppliers vendors or the public in a safe professional and respectful manner.

• Access to sensitive and confidential business systems and software personallyidentifyinginformation the companys financial information and/or the ability tomaintainphysical security and safety.

• Because this position involvesthe above material job duties trustworthiness reliability and good judgmentalso arematerial job duties.

MKS is an equal opportunity employer including disability veteran status and all categories protected by law. Please review our EOE statements for additional details. MKS is generally only hiring candidates who reside in states where we are registered to do business.

MKS will consider qualified applicants with a criminal historypursuant tothe California Fair Chance Act and the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers.

Compensation and Benefits:

Salary Pay Range:

Total Base Pay Range $135000.00 - 225000.00

per year. This range is a good faith estimate of the expected salary range for this position based on a wide range of factors including qualifications experience and training operational and business needs and other considerations permitted by law.

Bonus: This position is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in an amount to be determined by MKS or as applicable.

Benefits: MKS offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance coverage (medical dental and vision) 401(k) with company match life and disability insurance 12 paid holidays sick time 15 paid vacation days 6 weeks fully paid parental leave adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement and for participation in any stock programs signing bonus etc..

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