Product Marketing Manager, AI Models

Ifm Us; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Bonus

401K

Paid time off

Parental Leave

EAP

Life & Disability

Job summary

Institute of Foundation Models is seeking a Product Marketing Manager to lead launch and sustaining marketing for our growing portfolio of AI models. You’ll translate complex research into clear positioning, craft content, and coordinate campaigns that raise awareness and drive adoption.

You’ll work across research, engineering, communications, design, and partners to define audiences, messaging, and go-to-market plans, measure impact, and iterate for ongoing momentum.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in product marketing or technical marketing, with AI/ML focus.
• Strong understanding of AI model landscape, including LLMs and world models.
• Excellent writing and storytelling skills for researchers, developers, enterprise audiences, partners, and media.

Responsibilities

• Lead model launch planning and integrated go-to-market plans.
• Build sustaining marketing programs: explainers, demos, use cases, and community engagement.
• Develop positioning and messaging grounded in capabilities and release details.
• Track competing models and shifts in open-source and proprietary releases.
• Translate research into clear stories; collaborate with researchers and engineers.
• Create marketing content: launch narratives, briefs, website copy, blogs, FAQs.
• Coordinate execution across research, engineering, communications, design, and partners.
• Support communications and executive visibility with competitive context and proof points.
• Measure awareness, engagement, and adoption; refine future launches.

Skills

Product marketing

AI/ML marketing

Technical marketing

Storytelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Campaign management

Go-to-market

Research translation

Job description

About the Institute of Foundation Models

We are a dedicated research lab for building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mandate is to advance research, nurture the next generation of AI builders, and drive transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy.

As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to work on the core of cutting-edge foundation model training, alongside world-class researchers, data scientists, and engineers, tackling the most fundamental and impactful challenges in AI development. You will participate in the development of groundbreaking AI solutions that have the potential to reshape entire industries.Strategic and innovative problem-solving skills will be instrumental in establishing MBZUAI as a global hub forhigh-performance computing in deep learning, driving impactful discoveries that inspire the next generation of AIpioneers.

IFM is seeking a Product Marketing Manager to lead launch and sustaining marketing for our current and developing portfolio of large language models (LLMs) and world models. This person will translate complex AI research and model capabilities into clear positioning, compelling content, and coordinated campaigns that build awareness, engagement, and adoption.

Working closely with, engineering, communications teams and business planning, you will shape how we bring models to market and maintain momentum beyond launch. You should have AI experience, a strong understanding of the AI model landscape, and the ability to communicate credibly with technical audiences while making our work accessible to broader audiences.

Success in this role means delivering well-coordinated launches and ongoing marketing programs that demonstrate each model’s relevance, sustain engagement, and grow adoption-while establishing a consistent and distinctive voice for IFM.

• Lead model launch planning. Develop and execute integrated go-to-market plans for LLM and world model releases, defining target audiences, positioning, messaging, launch assets, channels, timelines, and success measures.
• Build sustaining marketing programs. Maintain momentum beyond launch through technical explainers, demonstrations, use cases, community engagement, partner stories, and model updates.
• Develop positioning and messaging. Articulate what each model enables, who it serves, and how it differs from alternatives. Ground claims in validated capabilities, evaluations, and release details.
• Understand the AI model landscape. Track competing models, emerging capabilities, developer needs, and shifts in open-source and proprietary AI. Translate these insights into recommendations for positioning and campaigns.
• Translate research into relevant stories. Partner with researchers and engineers to explain model architectures, benchmarks, training approaches, and practical applications with clarity and technical accuracy.
• Create compelling marketing content. Partner to develop launch narratives, messaging briefs, website copy, blog posts, presentations, FAQs, briefs for demos, creative assets, and in some cases, social content.
• Coordinate execution across teams. Align research, engineering, communications, design, and external partners around launch readiness, deliverables, and deadlines.
• Support communications and executive visibility. Equip communications teams with competitive context, proof points, and materials for media, events, and industry discussions.
• Measure and improve performance. Establish meaningful metrics for awareness, engagement, and adoption. Use results and audience feedback to refine future launches and ongoing campaigns.

• Five or more years of experience in product marketing, technical marketing, or a related role, including direct experience marketing AI or machine learning models, platforms, or products.
• A strong understanding of the AI model landscape, including LLMs, multimodal models, emerging world models, and the audiences that develop, evaluate, and use them.
• Experience leading complex technical launches, from audience definition and positioning through execution and post-launch engagement.
• The ability to understand technical research, ask informed questions, and translate findings into accurate, differentiated messaging.
• Familiarity with model evaluation, benchmarks, deployment considerations, and distinctions among open-source, open-weight, and proprietary releases.
• Excellent writing and storytelling skills, with the ability to tailor content for researchers, developers, enterprise audiences, partners, and media.
• Strong project management skills and experience working across technical and creative teams.
• A practical, hands-on approach: you can set strategy, create content, manage execution, and assess results.

• Experience marketing foundation models, open-source AI projects, or developer-focused AI products.
• Experience working with research scientists or within an AI research organization.
• Familiarity with world model applications such as simulation, robotics, embodied AI, and interactive environments.
• Experience engaging AI communities through platforms such as Hugging Face and GitHub.
• Experience building campaigns that turn technical releases into sustained developer engagement and adoption.
• Experience planning and overseeing paid marketing campaigns, including audience selection, messaging, channel recommendations, budget allocation, and coordination with internal specialists or external agencies.
• Experience evaluating paid media’s contribution to engagement and adoption. Hands-on campaign setup and optimization experience is a plus.

Visa Sponsorship

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Benefits Include

• *Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• *Bonus
• *401K Plan
• *Generous paid time off, sick leave and holidays
• *Paid Parental Leave
• *Employee Assistance Program
• *Life insurance and disability