Head of Product Management & Marketing

Ambiq Micro, Inc. Open · verified Aug 17, 2026

Austin Director General Marketing

Leadership General Marketing role at Ambiq Micro, Inc.. Austin · no salary stated · we estimate $88,000–$168,000.

Estimated pay

Ambiq Micro, Inc. has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.

$88,000 – $168,000

What the middle half of lead general marketing roles in Austin paid, among postings that did state a salary.

Worked out from 15 postings that stated pay, median $120,000. Last updated Mar 10, 2026.

Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

You’ll set portfolio direction, product lifecycles, and multi-year plans across chips, AI tools, SDKs, and reference solutions
You’ll lead launches, sales enablement, design-win efforts, channel programs, and market-facing content
You’ll use customer relationships and competitive research to shape requirements, positioning, and roadmap choices
You’ll manage portfolio planning, pricing, budgets, operating reviews, and delivery trade-offs across teams
You’ll hire and develop the team while building repeatable processes for launches, metrics, and execution

What you bring

You bring fifteen-plus years in semiconductor, embedded-systems, or edge-AI product management or marketing
You have seven-plus years leading product managers, product marketers, and individual contributors
You’ve managed silicon and software offerings spanning MCUs, SoCs, ASICs, SDKs, toolchains, and reference designs
You can connect pricing, margins, P&L ownership, market analysis, and technical trade-offs to business decisions
You hold a BS in EE, CE, CS, or a related field; an MS or MBA is preferred

Who this fits

You’ll suit this role if you can lead semiconductor product strategy, marketing, financial ownership, and people management across technical and commercial teams. The job is based in Austin, with regular office collaboration and travel for customers, trade shows, and cross-site meetings. The listing describes the role as on-site five days a week in northwest Austin and also as hybrid. You must already have U.S. work authorization, since visa sponsorship is unavailable.

From the employer

Company Overview

Ambiq is on a mission to enable intelligence everywhere — powering the AI edge revolution with the world's lowest-power semiconductor solutions.

Built on our proprietary sub- and near-threshold technology, our chips deliver multi-fold improvements in energy efficiency without costly process scaling. Since 2010, we've shipped over 300 million units to customers building smarter wearables, medical devices, IoT products, and AI-powered edge applications.

Our cross-functional teams span design, research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations across Austin, Hsinchu, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Singapore. We move fast, tackle hard problems, and create space for people to grow through complex, meaningful work that shapes the future of technology.

We're looking for self-motivated, creative problem-solvers who are eager to push technological limits and make a real impact in energy efficiency.

At Ambiq, we live by five values: Innovate. Collaborate. Focus. Learn. Achieve.

If that's you, join us — the intelligence everywhere revolution starts here.

This role will be on-site 5 days a week in NW Austin.

The Role

Ambiq is seeking a Head of Product Management & Marketing to own the P&L and business strategy for our edge AI/MCU/SoC portfolio. You will define the multi-year roadmap, orchestrate execution across Engineering, Sales, and Operations, and drive revenue growth and profitability by delivering category-defining ultra-low power solutions

What You’ll Do

Product Strategy & Roadmap

Own portfolio strategy, complete product lifecycles, and 3–5 year roadmaps across silicon, AI tools, SDKs, and reference solutions
Define high-impact value propositions, positioning, and value-based pricing/packaging to maximize profitability
Build and validate business cases (TAM/SAM/SOM, cost, margin, ROI) and prioritize investments.

Go-to-Market & Launch

Lead integrated product launches (alpha/beta, enablement, content, PR/analyst, and events)
Partner with Sales and BD on flagship design-win strategy, funnel health, and channel programs.
Ensure the creation of powerful sales enablement assets including solution briefs, benchmarks, competitive battlecards, demos/reference designs

Customer & Market Insight

Act as executive sponsor building C-level relationships with strategic customers to capture future requirements for strategic customers
Maintain deep competitive analysis and market intelligence to guide roadmap, positioning, and messaging

People Leadership & Operations

Own annual planning for portfolio P&L targets, pricing strategy, and budget
Drive tight alignment and prioritization across engineering, marketing, and sales leaders to ensure timely execution of the product roadmap and resolve critical trade-offs
Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing team; establish clear career paths and objectives and foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and operational excellence
Institute data-driven product operating rhythms (MRD/PRD reviews, launch gates, KPI dashboards).

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Translate customer/market needs into crisp requirements for Architecture, Silicon, Firmware, AI tools, and Software.
Partner with Applications/FAE to scale customer support, developer experience, reference designs, and ecosystems.
Collaborate with Supply Chain/Operations on forecasts and product plans

What Success Looks Like (KPIs)

Market share growth and AI/software solution attach rate in key ultra-low-power applications
Ecosystem expansion measured by the number of active partners, developers, or design-ins for reference solutions
Gross margin improvement through value-based pricing and mix.
On-time launches with successful revenue contribution and healthy ROI from new product introductions
Team Health & Retention: Employee engagement scores and retention of top talent

What You Bring

15+ years in Product Management/Product Marketing for semiconductors, embedded systems, or edge AI; 7+ years managing PM/PMM leaders and ICs.
Proven ownership of silicon + software portfolios (MCU/SoC/ASIC, SDKs, toolchains, reference designs).
Demonstrated success taking complex technical products from concept to high-volume production.
Strong financial acumen (pricing, margin, P&L) and analytical rigor (market models, experiment design).
Customer-facing credibility with OEM/ODM/Tier-1 partners; excellent executive communication.
Ability to synthesize architecture trade-offs (power, performance, area, BOM) into marketable value.
Education: BS in EE/CE/CS (or related) required; MS/MBA preferred.

Nice to Have

Experience with wearables/hearables, consumer health, industrial IoT, medical and/or vision/audio AI at the edge.
Ecosystem chops: Zephyr, RTOS, TensorFlow Lite Micro/TVM, compilers/Kernels, model optimization/ML perf.
Familiarity with developer marketing, communities, and reference app pipelines

Work Model & Travel

Austin-based hybrid role with regular in-office collaboration
~15–25% travel for customers, tradeshows, and cross-site meetings.

**Must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer. We do not sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas (now or in the future) for this role.