Senior Product Marketing Manager (PCIe/CXL)

Location: San Jose, United States of America; onsite role.

Annual salary: $154,000–$286,000 in California, plus potential bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is an electronic design automation company providing software, hardware, and intellectual property for designing advanced semiconductor chips.

What you will do

• Own roadmap input, market requirements, product definition, and competitive strategy for PCIe and CXL Controller IP.
• Engage lead customers and ecosystem partners across AI/HPC infrastructure, data centers, storage, networking, automotive, and advanced SoC/chiplet applications.
• Translate technical requirements into product briefs, presentations, white papers, web content, value propositions, competitive positioning, and sales enablement materials.
• Collaborate with engineering, SerDes marketing, sales, program management, and application engineering on portfolio planning, integration, compliance, validation, and collateral.
• Support design wins, RFIs/RFPs, customer meetings, industry events, webinars, and conferences.
• Track PCI-SIG, CXL Consortium, NVMe, AMBA/Arm, and related ecosystem developments and provide recommendations to senior management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in semiconductor IP, SoC, hardware design, verification, systems engineering, product management, product marketing, applications engineering, or a closely related technical role.
• Strong working knowledge of PCI Express and/or CXL, including controller architecture, protocol features, SoC integration, performance, power, debug, compliance, and ecosystem requirements.
• Ability to understand complex hardware and software solutions and communicate their value to technical and business audiences.
• Experience working directly with customers, sales, engineering, or field application teams in a semiconductor or IP business environment.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to create clear technical collateral and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to operate independently, manage ambiguity, prioritize effectively, and drive alignment across geographically distributed teams.
• Customer-facing presentation experience with architects, engineering leaders, executives, sales teams, and partner organizations.

Nice to have

• MBA or MS in a technical field with strong business aptitude.
• Hands-on design, architecture, verification, application engineering, or product-management experience with PCIe, CXL, NVMe, Ethernet, SerDes, or related high-speed interface IP.
• Familiarity with PCIe Gen5/Gen6/Gen7, CXL 2.0/3.x/4.0, PIPE, IDE, TDISP, FLIT mode, ordering rules, RAS, low-power features, compliance flows, and subsystem integration.
• Understanding of AMBA standards and SoC fabrics or interfaces such as AXI, CHI, CXS, LTI/DTI, SMMU, and GIC-related integration considerations.
• Experience integrating PCIe/CXL IP in SoCs, chiplets, packages, boards, or data-center platforms, including controller, PHY/SerDes, firmware, software, and system validation interactions.
• Participation in or close familiarity with PCI-SIG, CXL Consortium, NVMe, OCP, or related ecosystem initiatives.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid vacation and paid holidays.
• 401(k) plan with employer match and employee stock purchase plan.
• Medical, dental, and vision plan options.
• Potential bonus, equity, and other incentive compensation.
• Collaborative work across engineering, sales, field applications, program management, and executive stakeholders.