Role Overview
The Product Marketing Director will serve as a strategic leader and trusted advisor across Marketing, Business Management, Sales, and Product/Process Support Engineering (PSE). This role will help shape business and go-to-market strategy, strengthen field effectiveness, and develop scalable processes, tools, and best practices that drive measurable business outcomes.
What You Will Do
The ideal candidate will provide strategic leadership and direction to ensure Marketing, Sales, Process Support Engineering (PSE), and cross-functional teams are aligned with and effectively supporting the organization’s business objectives. They will lead complex, highly visible, cross-functional initiatives involving Marketing, Sales, PSE, Business Management, and other key stakeholders.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The ideal candidate combines deep product marketing expertise with strong business acumen, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence senior leaders across functions. They will tackle complex, high-impact business challenges and lead cross-functional initiatives spanning competitive positioning, value-based pricing and selling, field enablement, and business process optimization.
Requirements
- 15+ years of relevant experience in product marketing, business management, commercial strategy, field enablement, sales strategy, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated expertise in areas such as competitive analysis and score carding, value-based pricing, value selling, product marketing, field enablement, or commercial strategy.
- Exceptional business acumen with the ability to connect strategic initiatives to customer value, competitive differentiation, and measurable business outcomes.
- Demonstrated success leading complex, multidisciplinary projects and influencing stakeholders across organizational and functional boundaries.
- Strong ability to identify, structure, and solve highly complex and ambiguous business problems.
- Experience applying analytical frameworks and first-principles thinking to develop new approaches and solutions.
- Proven ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment among Marketing, Sales, Business Management, Engineering/PSE, and other cross-functional organizations.
- Strong communication, executive presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to operate effectively as both a strategic thought leader and an execution-focused business partner.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Bonus and stock award program (as applicable)
To apply for this job please visit careers.appliedmaterials.com.

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