Platform & Robotics Solutions Product Management & Marketing

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:
$152,000.00 - $208,500.00

Location:
Santa Clara,CA

You'll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible-while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more.

At Applied Materials, we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. We're committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits.

Core Responsibilities

Inbound Discovery & Platform Thinking

• Act as a systems thinker who identifies value synergies across products, platforms, and teams.
• Lead customer and field discovery to uncover cross‑product pain points, workflow gaps, and integration friction.
• Translate customer needs into platform‑level, automation, software requirements, guardrails, and capability definitions.

• Partner closely with engineering and product teams to:
  • Define platform roadmaps
  • Articulate the why behind priorities
  • Ensure solutions scale across use cases and segments
• Help define success metrics (adoption, time‑to‑value, reuse, attach, customer outcomes).

• Contribute to PMM/PM COE best practices:
  • Customer insight frameworks
  • Value articulation templates
  • Platform narrative consistency
• Enable field, sales, and solution teams with clear platform stories and integration guidance.

• Rapidly learn complex technical domains and connect dots across HW, SW, and COE systems.
• Be comfortable challenging assumptions, asking why, and proposing alternative approaches.
• Influence engineering teams through clarity of vision and customer evidence, not hierarchy. Don't just ask and accept roadmaps as is, think critically, challenge and independently propose ideas that have potential to contribute to pipeline.

• Support solution narratives, enablement content, and reference architectures rooted in inbound insights.
• Ensure outbound materials reflect real customer workflows, not just feature aggregation.
• Mastery in customer presentation , excellent communication

• Background in robotics, controls, sensors and HW platforms
• Strong technical foundation with customer empathy
• Bias for action and structured thinking
• Ability to zoom in (details) and out (platform strategy)
• Natural collaborator who builds trust with engineering

• Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services

• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity

• Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions

• Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by functional policies

• Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view