{"id":704706,"url":"https://alion.io/job/trener-product-marketing-manager","title":"Product Marketing Manager","company":{"id":685055,"name":"Trener Robotics, Inc.","domain":"trener.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/trener","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Marketing","role_family":"Marketing","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["San Jose, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":121000,"max_usd":237000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1260},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Physical AI","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-20T21:00:01Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-20","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T11:12:12Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":65,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":65},"description":"Product Marketing Manager\nLocation: On-site in San Jose, California, USA\nReports to: VP of Marketing, Barcelona, Spain\nStart Date: Early September 2026\nLevel: Fluid for Product Marketing Manager or Senior\nHelp define how the world understands Physical AI.\nAt Trener, we're building the intelligence layer for industrial robots.\nOur software platform, Acteris, enables industrial robots to understand their environment, make intelligent decisions, and execute complex manufacturing tasks with minimal programming. By combining AI, robotics, and industrial software, we're helping manufacturers automate production with a level of flexibility that wasn't previously possible.\nBacked by leading investors and working alongside global robot manufacturers, semiconductor companies, and automation partners, we're helping define a new category: Physical AI platform for industrial robots.\nAs we continue to grow, the (Senior) Product Marketing Manager will play a foundational role in shaping how Trener is positioned in the market and accelerating our next stage of growth.\nYour Mission\nAs our first dedicated Product Marketing hire, you'll partner closely with the VP of Marketing to build the Product Marketing function and define Trener's positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategy.\nWorking across Product, Sales, Engineering, and executive leadership, you'll transform complex AI and robotics technology into compelling customer value through product launches, commercial enablement, and world-class storytelling for manufacturers, partners, robot OEMs, semiconductor companies, and investors.\nWe're looking for a hands-on builder who combines strategic thinking with exceptional execution and thrives in a fast-moving, high-growth environment.\nKey Responsibilities\nWorking closely with the VP of Marketing and cross-functional teams, you will:\nDrive product positioning, messaging, and category development across our products, applications, industries, and target audiences, ensuring Trener is clearly differentiated in the market.\n\nDevelop a deep understanding of customers, partners, competitive intelligence, and market trends to continuously refine positioning and messaging.\n\nLead go-to-market planning and execution for new products, features, industries, and applications, from positioning and launch strategy to commercial enablement.\n\nOwn sales, marketing, and partner enablement, including customer success stories, partner case studies, competitive assets, and commercial proof points.\n\nPartner with executive leadership on keynote presentations, strategic announcements, investor communications, and major company messaging.\n\nSupport US field marketing initiatives, including conferences, trade shows, customer visits, partner events, and product demonstrations.\n\nContribute hands-on to digital marketing initiatives, including website content, SEO, campaigns, marketing automation, and demand generation, while ensuring consistent product positioning across every customer touchpoint.\n\nBuild scalable Product Marketing processes, frameworks, and best practices that support Trener's long-term growth.\n\nThis role requires travel within the United States to support customer visits, partner meetings, conferences, and trade shows.\n\nWhat Great Looks Like\nExperience\n8+ years of Product Marketing experience in B2B technology, with a strong background in software, AI, or enterprise platforms. Experience in robotics is preferred, while industrial automation or manufacturing software is highly desirable.\n\nProven experience bringing products to market through positioning, messaging, go-to-market strategy, launches, and commercial enablement.\n\nExperience working cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Engineering, and executive leadership in fast-growing or venture-backed technology companies.\n\nHands-on experience in both Product Marketing and Digital Marketing, with a solid understanding of demand generation, website strategy, SEO, marketing automation, and field marketing.\n\nSkills & Capabilities\nExceptional storytelling skills, with the ability to transform complex technologies into compelling customer value through presentations, product and demo videos, websites, product collateral, and sales enablement.\n\nStrategic thinker with a hands-on, execution-focused mindset and a proven ability to deliver high-quality outcomes.\n\nDemonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and workflows to accelerate product marketing, content creation, research, and commercial execution.\n\nAttributes\nCreative, customer-centric, and naturally curious, with a bias for action and strong attention to detail.\n\nComfortable building from scratch, collaborating across functions, and thriving in fast-moving environments.\n\nWhat You'll Get\nThe opportunity to build the Product Marketing function.\n\nA defining role in shaping the positioning and commercial narrative of one of the industry's most ambitious Physical AI companies.\n\nDirect collaboration with the CEO and leadership team on product strategy, company messaging, and commercial initiatives.\n\nExposure to some of the world's leading robotics, manufacturing, and semiconductor companies.\n\nA highly visible role with meaningful ownership and the opportunity to influence company growth from an early stage.\n\nEquity as part of your compensation package.\n\nIf you're excited about helping define a new category in AI and robotics, building Product Marketing from the ground up, and creating the stories that shape an industry, we'd love to hear from you.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5516,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Robotics","Industrial Robotics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-11T03:41:43Z"}],"liveness":{"score":12,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.437,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":65,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/trener-product-marketing-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/trener-product-marketing-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T17:16:40Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}