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:
$154,000.00 - $212,000.00
Location:
Santa Clara,CA
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Job Summary
The Product Manager, Level V is an emerging product leader role designed for a technically deep engineer with a PhD who is transitioning into Product Management within Applied Materials. This role leverages advanced engineering expertise to translate customer high-value problems, technology capabilities, field feedback, and business priorities into clear product requirements, roadmap inputs, and execution plans. The role is expected to operate with structured transition support while building product judgment, commercial acumen, stakeholder influence, and customer-facing communication skills.
Role Scope
- Contribute to product strategy, roadmap definition, and requirements development for a defined product, platform, service offering, or technology area.
- Partner with Engineering, BU, Field, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Service teams to convert technical opportunities into scalable product outcomes.
- Apply deep domain expertise to evaluate technical feasibility, customer value, differentiation, and execution trade-offs.
- Operate as an individual contributor or matrixed product lead with guidance from senior Product Management and business leaders.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Roadmap Support
- Translate customer, field, and engineering inputs into product requirements, use cases, value propositions, and roadmap recommendations.
- Support market and customer segmentation analysis to identify where Applied should invest, compete, or differentiate.
- Contribute to product lifecycle decisions, including feature prioritization, release readiness, adoption barriers, and retirement considerations.
- Build fact-based business cases that connect technical capability to customer outcomes, revenue opportunity, margin impact, and strategic fit.
Customer, Field & Competitive Insight
- Engage with field teams, customer-facing stakeholders, and technical experts to understand customer high-value problems and operational pain points.
- Capture and synthesize Voice of Customer, escalation learnings, installed-base insights, and competitive intelligence into actionable product recommendations.
- Support customer technical review preparation by providing product positioning, technical rationale, and evidence-based messaging.
- Identify gaps between current product capabilities and customer needs, then recommend corrective actions or roadmap adjustments.
Cross-Functional Execution
- Partner with Engineering and Program Management to ensure requirements are understood, feasible, prioritized, and traceable through execution.
- Coordinate with Sales, Field, Service, and Operations to support launch planning, enablement, adoption tracking, and issue resolution.
- Maintain clear documentation of product decisions, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and success metrics.
- Use structured operating rhythms, dashboards, and reviews to communicate progress and escalate issues appropriately.
Transition Support & Development Expectations
- Receive structured mentorship from a senior Product Manager or business leader for roadmap ownership, product strategy, customer engagement, and commercial decision-making.
- Complete a defined transition plan covering product management fundamentals, market requirements, pricing and business case development, launch readiness, and stakeholder influence.
- Participate in customer, field, and BU reviews initially as a technical product contributor, progressing toward ownership of selected product decisions and roadmap workstreams.
- Build capability in executive communication, concise storytelling, trade-off framing, and business outcome orientation.
- Demonstrate increasing independence over 6–12 months in converting technical depth into product strategy, requirements, and measurable business impact.
Qualifications
Required
- PhD in Engineering, Science, Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, Data Science, or a related technical discipline.
- Strong technical foundation with demonstrated ability to solve complex engineering or technology problems relevant to Applied Materials products, services, or customer environments.
- Ability to translate technical concepts into customer value, product requirements, and cross-functional execution plans.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage engineering, field, business, and customer-facing stakeholders.
- Demonstrated curiosity and commitment to developing product management, business, and commercial skills.
Preferred
- 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 other applications to develop dynamic product requirements documents.
Success Metrics
- Quality and clarity of product requirements, roadmap inputs, and business case recommendations.
- Ability to synthesize technical, customer, field, and market inputs into prioritized product decisions.
- Stakeholder feedback on collaboration, communication, ownership, and cross-functional follow-through.
- Progress against transition plan milestones, including product management skill development and increasing independence.
- Contribution to measurable product outcomes such as adoption, issue closure, customer value, revenue enablement, margin improvement, or execution readiness.
Additional Information
Time Type:
Full time
Employee Type:
Assignee / Regular
Travel:
Yes, 25% of the Time
Relocation Eligible:
No
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 members. In 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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