Senior Product Marketing Manager — Automotive MCU (f / m / d)
At a glance
Senior Product Marketing role at Renesas Electronics. Düsseldorf · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Set the positioning, priorities, and roadmap for a new Automotive MCU product line
- Use market and customer evidence to shape MCU architecture, CPU needs, and system capabilities
- Work with OEMs, Tier-1s, IP suppliers, and standards groups on future product direction
- Turn market, competitive, and customer findings into requirements with engineering, sales, and business teams
- Keep product strategy aligned with global strategy and advanced technology groups
What you bring
- A bachelor’s or advanced degree in engineering or a related technical field
- Extensive semiconductor product marketing or management experience, ideally with Automotive MCUs or embedded processing
- Strong knowledge of MCU architecture, CPU and IP ecosystems, and automotive system needs
- Experience engaging customers, suppliers, and industry standards organizations
- Strategic, analytical, and clear communicator who can work through ambiguity in early product development
Who this fits
You’ll suit a senior technical product marketer or product manager who can influence a product before execution starts and work across customers, partners, and engineering teams. The role is Germany-based, with a preference for working onsite from Düsseldorf. Travel across Europe, the United States, and Japan will take about a quarter of your time.
From the employer
Product Line Incubation & Advanced Technology
We are looking for a Senior Product Marketing Manager to lead the incubation and early development of a next‑generation Automotive MCU product line. This role focuses on shaping long‑term product and technology direction through close collaboration with customers, ecosystem partners, and internal engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead early‑stage product strategy for a new Automotive MCU product line, including positioning, priorities, and roadmap definition.
- Drive market‑ and customer‑informed input into MCU architecture, CPU requirements, and system capabilities.
- Engage directly with automotive OEMs, Tier‑1s, IP suppliers, and standards organizations to align product direction with future ecosystem needs.
- Analyze market trends, competitive landscapes, and customer inputs to guide strategic decisions.
- Collaborate across engineering, advanced technology, sales, and business teams to translate market insights into clear product requirements.
- Support global alignment with strategy and advanced technology teams.
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Extensive experience in semiconductor product marketing or product management, preferably in Automotive MCUs or embedded processing.
- Strong understanding of MCU architectures, CPU/IP ecosystems, and automotive system requirements.
- Experience working with customers, suppliers, and industry standards bodies.
- Proven ability to operate in ambiguous, long‑term, early‑product environments.
- Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and communication skills.
Location & Travel: Germany based, with strong preference for working out of our Dusseldorf office. Travel within Europe and to the United States and Japan will be required about 25% of the time to support customer, supplier, standards bodies and internal engagements.
This role offers an opportunity to shape the future direction of Automotive MCUs by influencing products well before execution begins.
Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’
At Renesas, you can:
- Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.
- Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure.
- Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.
Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?
Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.
Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.
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