Product Marketing Manager, iPhone

Apple Inc.; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. seeks a Product Marketing Manager to lead product marketing strategy and execution. The role requires extensive experience in product marketing and proficiency in English and Arabic. You will be pivotal in driving product-centric marketing efforts and ensuring successful product launches.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in product marketing.
• Proficient in English and Arabic.
• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Articulate product opportunity and provide insight from introduction to end-of-life.
• Execute product launches and contribute to the annual Marketing plan.
• Influence product feature roadmap to enhance customer experience.

Skills

Customer relationship management

Product insight and leadership

Strategic thinking

Education

BS/BA or equivalent experience

Job description

As a member of our Product Marketing group, you’ll represent the customer throughout a product’s journey from concept through development and launch. You’ll develop and apply insights to help infuse innovative features into our product-development process. Together with our team, you’ll work to craft groundbreaking ideas into tangible products that excite the world. At Apple, we combine product management/development and product marketing responsibilities into a single, cross functional Product Management role that collaborates with design, engineering, finance, legal, marketing communications, public relations, market research, sales and support for maximum impact across the organization.The Product Marketing Manager will own and drive the product centric marketing strategy for their respective product line of business. A critical function of this role is to be the spokesperson for their product in market.The Product Marketing Manager is part of a team of product experts who champion products within their respective markets and seek innovative ways to keep our products at the heart of the customer conversation.

Description

Articulate the product opportunity in market and provide product insight and leadership from introduction through end-of-life to both the Marketing and Sales organisations.Execute product launches with excellence every time.Contribute to the annual Marketing plan, outlining opportunity and actions that lead growth and category leadership.Be the liaison between Market and worldwide for all local business needs and feature requirements. Influence the product feature roadmap, making clear recommendations that improve customer experience.Become a visible and vocal member of the Product Marketing team.Be the guardian of product messaging & positioning across every customer touch point, advancing the cause of excellence.Possess expert knowledge of competitive and 3rd party products and strategies.Build a sphere of influence across multiple internal functions / divisions.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in product marketing
• Proficiency in English and Arabic
• Ability to travel across the region and globally, up to 30% of the time

Preferred Qualifications

• Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions
• Ability to surprise and delight our customers’ experiences through innovative, thoughtful details
• Uses knowledge of business drivers, how strategies and tactics play out in the market, to guide actions
• Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• BS/BA or equivalent experience
• Instinctive ability to be the voice of the consumer