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Technical Marketing V

Applied Materials
Santa Clara, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Dec 2025
💰 $214,500/yr($156,000/yr$214,500/yr)

About the role

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:

$156,000.00 - $214,500.00

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

We are actively recruiting a Technical Marketer for the Photonics Platforms Business (PPB).

PPB is a rapidly growing business within Applied Materials. We are harnessing the power of Applied Material’s world-leading material science and nano-fabrication capabilities to enable the next generation of augmented reality smartglasses and optical interconnects for AI datacenters.

We are looking for an experienced technical marketing expert to join our team, to help our go-to-market activities by driving analysis of ecosystem, cost, pricing, red team and bill-of-materials analysis.

General Profile: Recognized as an expert within the company. Anticipates internal and or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues; recommends process, product or service improvements. Solves unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business. Contributes to the development of functional strategy. Leads project teams to achieve milestones and objectives. Progression to this level is typically restricted on the basis of business requirements.

Key Responsibilities

1. Recognized as an expert and drives field/technical and customer engagement from a BU perspective. Conducts calls with field Technical Directors.

2. Drives penetration / adoption of unique and complex product strategies with BU, RPM and Field. Identifies customer adoption barriers and drives a plan to overcome [e.g. customer, product, BU]

3. Has expert understanding of global, technical and market trends and executes a systematic process for capturing competitive intelligence

4. Drives alignment and tracks business focus on TAM, share, margin between BU and Field

5. Leads project teams to achieve milestones/ objectives and map trends, opportunities and threats to roadmap and strategies.

6. Enhances technical communication and information flow between Field and Product Teams. Communicates customer info on applications, value validation and adoption issues.

7. Coordinate (TRM) Technical Review workshops with BU.

Functional Knowledge

· Regarded as the technical expert in their particular field

· Demonstrates in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function

Business Expertise

· Anticipates business and regulatory issues; recommends product, process or service improvements

Leadership

· Leads projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution

Problem Solving

· Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions

Impact

· Impacts the direction and resource allocation for program, project or services; works within general functional policies and industry guidelines

Interpersonal Skills

· Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Additional Information

Time Type:

Full time

Employee Type:

Assignee / Regular

Travel:

Yes, 10% of the Time

Relocation Eligible:

Yes

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