Aptiv PLC

Product Marketing Manager, Robotics & Drones

Aptiv PLC$120K — $145K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in Product Marketing or related B2B technology roles
  • Proven experience in developing positioning and go-to-market strategies for technical products
  • Ability to communicate complex product ecosystems clearly to customers
  • Experience in creating marketing content, sales tools, and event materials
  • Demonstrated cross-functional leadership across technical and commercial teams
  • Familiarity with AI tools for research and content development
  • Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, engineering, or related fields

Responsibilities

  • Develop compelling product positioning and messaging frameworks
  • Translate complex technical concepts into clear customer narratives
  • Support commercialization strategies for product launches and initiatives
  • Lead marketing efforts for strategic customer engagement and sales enablement
  • Identify industry trends to align marketing content with growth objectives
  • Collaborate with teams to create actionable creative briefs for various projects
  • Prioritize marketing projects based on business objectives and market needs

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Opportunity to engage in innovative and emerging technology sectors
  • Exposure to complex and diverse product ecosystems
  • Professional development opportunities in a forward-thinking company
  • Ability to influence significant business outcomes through marketing strategies
Full Job Description
Aptiv is seeking a strategic and execution-oriented Product Marketing Manager to
support the growth of its Adjacent Markets portfolio, including robotics, drones,
industrial automation, and emerging sensing solutions. This new role will serve as
the market-facing expert for the quickly evolving portfolio, helping Aptiv translate
complex technologies into clear commercial narratives, compelling customer-
facing experiences, and actionable go-to-market programs.

Working closely with product management, sales, creative, events, digital, and
communications teams, the Product Marketing Manager will connect competitive
insights, industry context, product capabilities, modular platforms, and industry
use cases with coherent positioning, messaging, priorities and execution plans.

The successful candidate will have a business mindset, paired with strong technical curiosity, cross-functional leadership, and operational discipline. They will be
highly credible with product, strategy, engineering, commercial, creative, and
digital teams, and will have the ability to quickly develop an in-depth
understanding of Aptiv's technology strategy, growth priorities, competitive
landscape, and business objectives.

This person should be a systems thinker who is comfortable navigating ambiguity
and complexity, identifying patterns across products, technologies, customers,
industries, and use cases.

Positioning, Messaging & Portfolio Storytelling
• Develop compelling positioning, value propositions, and messaging
frameworks.
• Translate technical concepts into clear, differentiated customer-facing
narratives.
• Understand and articulate the relationship between products, platforms, and
industry-specific use cases.
• Use up-to-date competitive and market intelligence to create messaging that
articulates our unique value propositions.
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering to ensure technical
capabilities are represented accurately in market-facing content, sales tools,
and digital experiences.

Commercialization & Go-to-Market Support
• Partner with Product Management to support commercialization strategies for
new and existing solutions, while providing market, customer, and competitive
context.
• Lead marketing support for product launches, industry initiatives, opportunity

marketing, sales enablement, and strategic customer engagement.
• Collaborate with customer-facing teams to develop account-specific messaging,
presentation materials, and engagement strategies.

Focal Point for Leveraging Broader Marketing Support
• Identify strategic themes, industry conversations, and emerging trends that
align with Aptiv's growth objectives, and use that information to support
buildout of content and digital experiences.
• Partner with the Thought Leadership team to create external narratives that
are market-informed, technically grounded, commercially relevant, and
strengthen Aptiv's credibility and visibility.
• Develop clear and actionable creative briefs for web, collateral, campaign,
event, video, presentation, and sales enablement projects.
• Help creative, digital, content, and events teams prioritize work based on
business objectives, market opportunity, customer needs, and launch timelines.

Background Experience

10+ years of experience in Product Marketing, Technical Marketing, Strategic
Marketing, Product Management, or related B2B technology roles
• Demonstrated track record developing positioning, messaging, and go-to-
market strategies for technical products and platforms
• Proven ability to understand complex product ecosystems and communicate
them in an accessible, customer-relevant way
• Experience creating content, sales tools, campaigns, presentations, and event
materials
• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management across
technical, commercial, creative, and digital teams
• Experience leveraging AI tools for research, synthesis, ideation, content
development, brief creation, and rapid prototyping
• Strong ability to gather, synthesize, and apply competitive intelligence and
market insights.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation communication skills, with high
proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, especially PowerPoint
• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, engineering, information technology,
or a related field
• Experience in robotics autonomy, drones, industrial automation, embedded
systems, automotive, aerospace, defense, or related technology sectors

Executing Results
• Results focused, with a high sense of accountability, urgency, ownership, and
follow-through
• Able to translate strategy into actionable plans, briefs, deliverables, and
execution priorities
• Comfortable working through ambiguity and bringing structure to complex,
fast-moving initiatives
• Willing to roll up sleeves to get work done while keeping stakeholders aligned
on priorities and tradeoffs
• Able to use data, market feedback, and performance insights to improve
marketing effectiveness and support commercial outcome

Building Relationships & Using Influence
• Collaborative, transparent, and effective at influencing teams
• Able to earn trust with Product Management, Engineering, Business

Development, Sales, Creative, Digital, Communications, and senior marketing
stakeholders
• Strong communicator who can tailor messages for technical, commercial,
executive, and creative audiences external resources, including marketing agencies and vendors.

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About Aptiv PLC

Aptiv PLC is a global technology company that designs and manufactures vehicle components and provides electrical and electronic and active safety technology solutions to the global automotive and commercial vehicle markets. The company's products include advanced safety systems, electrical and electronic distribution systems, and software and controls. Aptiv's largest customers are automotive manufacturers, and the company has a significant presence in Europe, Asia, and North America. The company was formerly known as Delphi Automotive PLC and changed its name to Aptiv PLC in December 2017.
Learn more about Aptiv PLC
Size
155,000 employees
Market Cap
$24.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.8 billion
5 Year Trend
+4.9%
Revenue
$13 billion
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