Senior Product Marketing Manager

Eridu; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Eridu, a Silicon Valley hardware startup, seeks an experienced Senior Manager, Product Marketing to shape how we position and communicate our AI infrastructure solutions. You will work cross-functionally with product, engineering and sales to craft compelling messaging and drive launches.

The role focuses on AI data center networking and translating complex technology into outcomes that resonate with hyperscalers and large providers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as CS, EE, physics.
• 5+ years in networking in product marketing/management.
• Direct data center networking experience across silicon, systems, or software.
• Experience selling to hyperscalers or large providers.
• Strong understanding of AI infrastructure stack and buyer personas.
• Proven ability to craft messaging and launches, enable sales.
• Preferred MBA or equivalent business training.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Eridu’s product positioning, messaging, and narrative.
• Partner with marketing leadership, product management and engineering to translate product capabilities into customer outcomes/value propositions for key buyers and influencers.
• Stay abreast of key trends and new technologies in AI infrastructure across compute, model architectures, and networking.
• Be a content engine supporting all marketing channels: investor and customer decks, solution briefs, white-papers, battle-cards, case studies, blogs, social media content and launch materials.
• Partner with the marketing team to support company and product launches.
• Support sales with compelling sales enablement materials.

Skills

Networking

Product Marketing

AI data center networking

Cross-functional collaboration

Messaging & positioning

Sales enablement

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

Eridu is a Silicon Valley-based hardware startup pioneering infrastructure solutions that accelerate AI data centers to deliver Faster AI. Today’s AI performance is frequently limited by communication bottlenecks. Eridu introduces multiple industry-first innovations across silicon, packaging, software, and systems to deliver an order of magnitude improvement in performance and unlock greater GPU utilization to speed training job completion times and tokens-per-second for more profitable inference. We do this while simultaneously reducing capital and power costs and improving reliability.

The company’s solutions and value proposition have been widely validated by leading hyperscalers.

Eridu has raised over $200M to date including its most recent, oversubscribed Series A round. The company is led by a veteran team of Silicon Valley executives who have delivered multiple billion dollar product lines and led multiple companies to billion dollar exits, including serial entrepreneur Drew Perkins, co-founder of Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN), Lightera (acq. by Ciena), Gainspeed (acq. by Nokia) and Mojo Vision (the world’s leading micro-LED company). The company is in execution mode and has a world-class engineering team with decades of experience in state-of-the-art silicon, packaging, optics, software, and systems. Eridu is working with best-in-class supply chain partners including silicon, packaging and systems.

Visit our website eridu.ai to learn more.

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Product Marketing to support our product marketing function. You will collaborate cross-functionally to help determine how we position our products, win mindshare with customers and partners, and translate highly technical value into clear, differentiated messaging.

This is a hands-on role reporting to the Sr. Director of Marketing and working closely with our product, engineering and sales teams. It is essential you have experience in networking and product marketing and ideally in AI data center networking. You are adept at collaborating cross-functionally with product management, engineering, sales, and other marketing functions to deliver high quality messaging, positioning, thought leadership, product launches, and sales enablement.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Eridu’s product positioning, messaging, and narrative.
• Partner with marketing leadership, product management and engineering to translate product capabilities into customer outcomes / value propositions for key buyers and influencers;
• Stay abreast of key trends and new technologies in AI infrastructure across compute, model architectures, and networking.
• Be a content engine supporting all marketing channels: investor and customer decks, solution briefs, white-papers, battle-cards, case studies, blogs, social media content and launch materials.
• Partner with the marketing team to support company and product launches.
• Support sales with compelling sales enablement materials.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (i.e., Computer Science Electrical Engineering, physics, or similar)
• 5+ years in networking space in a Product Marketing, Product Management, or similar position
• Direct data center networking and experience across silicon, systems, or software
• You have worked for or sold to hyperscalers, neoclouds, or other large service providers
• Solid understanding of the AI infrastructure stack and buyer personas
• Strong track record building positioning and messaging for technical infrastructure products, creating content, executing compelling launches and enabling sales to win
• Strong written and verbal communicator who can be equally credible with engineers and executives

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA
• High horsepower, low ego, deeply collaborative
• Data-driven operator who uses metrics to support compelling narratives and sharpen differentiation

Why Join Us?

At Eridu, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of AI infrastructure, working with a world-class team on groundbreaking technology that pushes the boundaries of AI performance. Your contributions will directly impact the next generation of AI infrastructure solutions, transforming the performance of AI data centers.

• The starting base salary for the selected candidate will be established based on their relevant skills, experience, qualifications, work location, market trends, and the compensation of employees in comparable roles.