Product Marketing Manager, Robotics & Drones

Role Summary

Aptiv is seeking a strategic and execution-oriented Product Marketing Manager tosupport 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-depthunderstanding of Aptiv's technology strategy, growth priorities, competitivelandscape, and business objectives.

  Your Role

  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 fornew and existing solutions, while providing market, customer, and competitivecontext.
• 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.

  Your Background

• 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 marketingstakeholders

• Strong communicator who can tailor messages for technical, commercial,executive, and creative audiences external resources, including marketing agencies and vendors.

  Why join Aptiv ?

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• You grow at Aptiv. Aptiv's winning culture is global by design. We bring together diverse perspectives, cultures, and business contexts to solve our customers' toughest challenges. In this environment, every individual can grow, lead, and make an impact, regardless of background, because inclusion fuels how we innovate and win. 

  ·       You make an impact at Aptiv. One of the strengths of humanity is our drive to progress, to improve, to achieve more tomorrow than we did yesterday. People need solutions they can trust when it matters most. At Aptiv, you are building those solutions every day.

  ·       You have support at Aptiv. We ensure you have the resources and support you need to take care of your family, your physical health, and your mental health with a competitive benefits package

  YOUR BENEFITS AT APTIV

  ·       Private health care effective day 1 of employment

  ·       Life and accident insurance

  ·       Paid Time Off (Holidays, Vacation, Designated time off, Parental leave)

  ·       Relocation assistance may be available

  ·       Learning and development opportunities

  ·       Discount programs with various manufacturers and retailers

  ·       Recognition for innovation and excellence

  ·       Opportunities to give back to the community

  ·       Tuition Reimbursement

  Meet the Next Generation Aptiv

  At Aptiv, we deliver innovative solutions that people trust when it matters most.

  Progress is never static. It is about reaching further, exploring new possibilities, and enabling mobility. Aptiv empowers customers to create solutions people rely on—advancing safety and autonomy in Automotive and Commercial Vehicles, enabling mission-critical performance in Aerospace & Defense, and powering intelligent systems across Energy, Enterprise, and Telecommunications. We also drive precision and efficiency in Industrials & Robotics and support life-critical innovation in Medical technologies.

  Guided by our winning culture and values to Think & Act Like Owners, as One Team, and Play to Win, we turn commitment into results and achieve more together.

  Join Us to Deliver Innovative Solutions That People Trust!

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