Sr. Product Marketing Manager - San Jose, United States

Originally posted 27 July 2026 by the employer.

Lead product strategy and technical marketing for PCIe and CXL Controller IP.

About the role

This role leads product marketing and product-management activities for Cadence PCIe and CXL Controller IP and related subsystem opportunities. You will drive product strategy, roadmap definition, customer engagement, and go-to-market execution across AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, data center, automotive, and chiplet applications.

What you'll do

- Own roadmap input, market requirements, and product definition for PCIe and CXL Controller IP based on customer needs, market trends, competitive analysis, and standards evolution. - Define and execute competitive marketing strategies in partnership with SerDes marketing, engineering, sales, program management, and application engineering. - Engage with lead customers and ecosystem partners to evaluate system-level requirements across AI/HPC infrastructure, data center accelerators, storage, networking, and automotive applications. - Author technical marketing collateral, including product briefs, value propositions, competitive positioning, white papers, and sales enablement tools. - Collaborate with engineering teams on controller portfolio planning, protocol feature priorities, configurability, integration requirements, compliance considerations, and validation readiness. - Support design-win activities by helping sales and field teams position Cadence IP, respond to RFIs/RFPs, and present differentiation to technical and executive audiences.

What you'll need

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. - 8+ years of experience in semiconductor IP, SoC, hardware design, verification, systems engineering, product management, product marketing, applications engineering, or a closely related technical role. - Strong working knowledge of PCI Express and/or CXL technologies, including controller architecture, protocol features, SoC integration, performance, power, debug, compliance, and ecosystem requirements. - Demonstrated experience directly engaging customers, sales teams, engineering teams, or field application teams in a semiconductor or IP business environment. - Demonstrated ability to translate complex hardware and software solutions into technical collateral and business value propositions.

Nice to have

- MBA or MS in a technical field. - Hands-on design, architecture, verification, application engineering, or product-management experience with PCIe, CXL, NVMe, Ethernet, SerDes, or related high-speed interface IP. - Familiarity with PCIe Gen5/Gen6/Gen7, CXL 2.0/3.x/4.0, PIPE, IDE, TDISP, FLIT mode, ordering rules, RAS, low-power features, compliance flows, and subsystem-level integration considerations. - Understanding of AMBA standards and SoC fabrics or interfaces, such as AXI, CHI, CXS, LTI/DTI, SMMU, and GIC-related integration considerations. - Experience with PCIe/CXL IP integration in SoCs, chiplets, packages, boards, or data-center platforms, including interactions between controller, PHY/SerDes, firmware, software, and system validation. - Participation in or familiarity with industry standards bodies such as PCI-SIG, CXL Consortium, NVMe, or OCP.

Skills: PCIe, CXL Controller IP, market requirements, product definition, competitive analysis, technical marketing