AIx Product Manager - Santa Clara, CA, United States
$154,000 - $212,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 8 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The AIx Product Manager is an emerging product leadership role designed to translate customer high-value problems, technology capabilities, field feedback, and business priorities into clear product requirements, roadmap inputs, and execution plans. The role leverages advanced engineering expertise within materials engineering and equipment domains with structured mentorship in product strategy and commercial acumen.
What you'll do
- Contribute to product strategy, roadmap definition, feature prioritization, and requirements development for defined products, platforms, or service offerings. - Build fact-based business cases connecting technical capabilities to customer outcomes, revenue opportunities, margin impact, and strategic fit. - Engage with field teams, customer-facing stakeholders, and technical experts to capture Voice of Customer, operational pain points, and competitive intelligence. - Partner with Engineering and Program Management to ensure requirements are feasible, prioritized, and traceable through execution. - Coordinate with Sales, Field, Service, and Operations to support launch planning, enablement, adoption tracking, and issue resolution. - Support customer technical review preparation with product positioning, technical rationale, and evidence-based messaging.
What you'll need
- PhD in Engineering, Science, Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, Data Science, or a related technical discipline. - Strong technical foundation solving complex engineering or technology problems relevant to Applied Materials products, services, or customer environments. - Demonstrated ability to translate technical concepts into customer value, product requirements, and cross-functional execution plans. - Written and verbal communication skills to engage engineering, field, business, and customer-facing stakeholders. - Demonstrated commitment to developing product management, business, and commercial skills.
Nice to have
- Experience working with semiconductor equipment, process technology, services, diagnostics, data platforms, automation, reliability, or advanced manufacturing environments. - Exposure to customer escalations, field support, roadmap discussions, technology transfer, or cross-functional product development. - Experience preparing technical presentations, competitive assessments, business cases, or requirements documents. - Familiarity with market requirements specifications, product lifecycle management, launch readiness, pricing inputs, or service product strategy. - Experience using Agentic AI solutions to develop concepts, UI prototypes, and dynamic product requirements documents.
Skills: product strategy, roadmap definition, product requirements, customer engagement, materials engineering
This role has been open 103 days — well above the 66-day median for Product Management roles.
Product Management · Manufacturing Equipment
|
Open roles in category
62
|
Median days open
66 d
|
Median salary
$194k
|
See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Applied Materials | All employers we track in this specialty (62 roles · 10 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 24 | 62 |
| Median days open | 78 d | 66 d (+12 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $194k |
Skills observed across this category: product strategy, roadmap definition, product requirements, customer engagement, materials engineering
Who's hiring in this category
- Applied Materials (this employer) · 24 open roles · median 79 d
- Lam Research · 15 open roles · median 62 d
- ASM International · 7 open roles · median 92 d
- Entegris · 6 open roles · median 71 d
- KLA Corporation · 3 open roles · median 137 d
- Keysight Technologies · 2 open roles · median 79 d
How we counted: 62 open Product Management (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 10 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.