Security Product Marketing Manager

191 Altera Corporation; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 118,900 - 172,200; Full time

Job summary

Altera seeks a Security Product Marketing Manager to define and drive our outward-facing security vision, translating FPGA security capabilities into clear customer value across design, data, and supply-chain security. You will shape market conversations as regulations evolve and drive compelling assets for customers.

The role requires 5+ years in product/technical marketing, deep security knowledge, and the ability to translate complex tech into business value for global customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years in product marketing, technical marketing, or related role.
• Experience in semiconductors, embedded systems, or infra technologies.
• Ability to create external-facing technical content and messaging.
• Strong understanding of security fundamentals including secure boot and root of trust.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain outward-facing security narrative and positioning across design, data, and supply-chain security.
• Lead messaging for core innovations including Secure Device Manager, crypto agility, and PQC adoption strategies.
• Create customer-facing assets like briefs, whitepapers, blogs, and sales decks.
• Equip sales teams with security-focused pitches, competitive positioning, and use-case messaging.
• Analyze competitive security positioning to highlight FPGA-based security advantages.

Skills

Product marketing

Technical marketing

Security fundamentals

Cryptography concepts

Clear messaging

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Job description

Altera is seeking a Security Product Marketing Manager to define and drive our outward‑facing security vision and narrative, translating advanced FPGA security capabilities into clear, differentiated customer value across design, data, and supply‑chain security. This role goes beyond feature positioning to define how security enables customer success, helping organizations build resilient, long‑life, and trusted systems. The PMM will shape the market conversation around emerging threats and position Altera as a leader in addressing them—including the accelerating industry transformation driven by evolving global regulations such as the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), CNSA requirements, and other government security mandates.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Altera’s outward‑facing security narrative and positioning across design security, data security, and supply‑chain security
• Lead messaging for core innovations, including Secure Device Manager (SDM) as root of trust, crypto agility, and Post‑Quantum Cryptography (PQC) adoption and transition strategies
• Build the inward and outward narrative that connects security features to business outcomes and maps customer threats to Altera solutions
• Develop high‑quality, customer‑facing assets including solution briefs, whitepapers, blogs, website product pages, sales presentations and executive decks
• Equip sales teams with security‑focused pitch decks, competitive positioning and objection handling, and use‑case and vertical‑specific messaging
• Analyze competitive security positioning to develop differentiated messaging highlighting FPGA‑based crypto agility, lifecycle security advantages and supply‑chain protection capabilities
• Identify emerging trends and translate them into actionable marketing strategies

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product marketing, technical marketing, or a related role
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related engineering discipline
• Experience in semiconductors, embedded systems, or infrastructure technologies
• Demonstrated ability to create external‑facing technical content and messaging
• Strong understanding of security fundamentals, including secure boot and root of trust, cryptography concepts and key management, hardware‑based security principles, network security technologies (MACsec, IPsec), secure communications, authentication, encryption and key exchange protocols
• Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear customer value

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with hardware or platform security (FPGA, SoC, ASIC, or infrastructure systems)
• Familiarity with Post‑quantum cryptography (PQC), crypto agility and lifecycle security and regulatory frameworks (CRA, CNSA, FIPS, etc.)
• Experience marketing to regulated or high‑assurance industries
• Background in developing security‑focused campaigns or thought leadership

What Success Looks Like

• Revise a clear, differentiated Altera security narrative
• Deliver compelling messaging around crypto agility, PQC readiness and lifecycle security
• Enable sales with strong security positioning and tools
• Launch impactful campaigns aligned to regulatory shifts (CRA and beyond) and emerging threats (quantum, advanced attacks)
• Position Altera as the trusted security platform provider

Pay range (BayArea, California only): $118.9K–$172.2KUSD. Salary may vary based on location, experience and other factors. Incentive opportunities are available.

Job Type: Regular. Shift: Shift1 (United States of America). Primary Location: SanJose, California, UnitedStates. Additional Locations: None.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation or ordinance.

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