Edge AI Product Marketing Manager/Director

About Us

Axelera AI is not your regular deep-tech startup. We are creating the next-generation AI platform to support anyone who wants to help advancing humanity and improve the world around us.

In just four years, we have raised a total of $120 million and have built a world-class team of 220+ employees (including 49+ PhDs with more than 40,000 citations), both remotely from 17 different countries and with offices in Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, headquartered at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

We have also launched our Metis™ AI Platform, which achieves a 3-5x increase in efficiency and performance, and have visibility into a strong business pipeline exceeding $100 million.

Our unwavering commitment to innovation has firmly established us as a global industry pioneer.

Are you up for the challenge?

Position Overview

We are seeking a skilled and motivated professional to join our Product Management team, bridging the gap between product management and sales.

In this role, you will provide technical expertise and enable the adoption of our edge AI accelerator portfolio. You will translate complex AI and edge computing technologies into clear, customer-facing value, supporting pre-sales efforts, competitive positioning, and market insights. You will work closely with Product, Sales, and Marketing teams to ensure our solutions address customer needs, inform product strategy, and strengthen market impact.

We are looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of technology and business, turning deep technical knowledge into actionable results that drive adoption and growth.

Key responsibilities:

Sales Enablement & Pre-Sales Support

• Develop and maintain technical sales assets, including reference architectures, battle cards, TCO models, comparison matrices, and use-case documentation

• Own competitive intelligence and positioning, ensuring clear differentiation across all outbound content

• Deliver pre-sales technical product presentations for strategic accounts and complex opportunities

• Lead, with support from Product Management, technical proposal development for strategic tenders, coordinating cross-functional contributors

• Conduct product training sessions for Sales, Customer Success (CST), and Marketing on product capabilities, competitive landscape, and market dynamics

• Build deep expertise in high-impact edge AI verticals and share insights to strengthen sales execution

Product-Market Feedback & Marketing Collaboration

Drive alignment between product, marketing, and customer-facing teams to ensure market insights inform product strategy and positioning.

• Capture and prioritize market requirements (MRDs) with Product Managers through customer engagement, sales input, and competitive analysis

• Feed win/loss analysis and competitive insights from Customer Success into product roadmap decisions

• Collaborate with Marketing to maintain accurate, differentiated messaging across campaigns, product launches, and thought leadership

• Provide technical input and brief Marketing on customer pain points, competitive landscape, and positioning

• Support development of competitive benchmarks with CST to inform both product and marketing strategy

Qualifications:

Technical Background

• MSc or higher in Engineering (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field)

• 8+ years of experience in technical product management, solutions engineering, or product marketing for semiconductor or computing products

• Deep understanding of AI inference workloads, neural network architectures, and edge computing requirements

• Ability to engage in in-depth technical discussions with customer architects and engineering teams

Product & Market Expertise

• Proven ability to translate technical capabilities into clear business value propositions

• Experience in AI markets

• Experience in verticals such as surveillance, agritech, defense, healthcare, automotive, or retail is a plus

• Experience building sales enablement materials and delivering technical training to internal and external stakeholders

• Strong competitive analysis and market research skills

• Track record of supporting complex B2B sales cycles (6–18 months)

Communication & Collaboration

• Excellent technical writing and presentation skills

• Ability to work effectively with Sales, Product Engineering, and Marketing teams

• Experience managing cross-functional initiatives (e.g., tender responses, product launches)

• Comfortable presenting to both C-level executives and highly technical audiences

• Self-driven, autonomous contributor with a strong sense of ownership

Location

We offer a flexible working arrangement, with options to:

• Work from one of our Axelera AI offices (Leuven in Belgium, Amsterdam and Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Florence and Milan in Italy or Bristol in the United Kingdom) if you're already based in the vicinity.

• Work fully remotely from any European country (incl. the UK) you are already in.

• Relocate with us and work from Italy (Florence or Milan) or the Netherlands (Amsterdam or Eindhoven).

Kindly note that priority will be given to candidates who are [interested in being] based in Belgium, Italy or the Netherlands.

What we offer 

This is your chance to shape and be part of a dynamic, fast-growing, international organization. We offer an attractive compensation package, including a pension plan, extensive employee insurances and the option to get company shares.

An open culture that supports creativity and continual innovation is awaiting you. Collaborative ownership and freedom with responsibility is characteristic for the way we act and work as a team. 

At Axelera AI, we wholeheartedly embrace equal opportunity and hold diversity in the highest regard. Our steadfast commitment is to cultivate a warm and inclusive environment that empowers and celebrates every member of our team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to join us in shaping the future of AI.