Schneider Innovations is seeking a Senior Product Marketing Manager to own system-level market and product judgment for complex and high-risk product initiatives. Your primary function is to bring early clarity to product decisions involving significant uncertainty and downstream cost, focusing on whether a system should be built, scoped, simplified, or stopped.
What You'll Do
- Own system-level market and product judgment for complex or high-risk product initiatives across the full lifecycle.
- Identify and validate critical assumptions around user behavior, willingness to pay, experience complexity, and long-term value.
- Evaluate trade-offs across user value, system complexity, technical constraints, cost structure, and lifetime economics.
- Assess products as end-to-end systems, identifying experience breakpoints impacting adoption, retention, support, and returns.
- Build and pressure-test LTV and unit economics to inform product scope, pricing, monetization, and lifecycle decisions.
- Define go-to-market direction for complex launches, including target segments, channel priorities, and success metrics.
- Translate launch and early usage learnings into recommendations for iteration, simplification, repositioning, or exit.
- Act as a senior market and user voice in product and leadership decision forums.
- Partner with Product Management, R&D, and Operations to align system scope and execution with validated assumptions.
- Influence decisions through clarity, evidence, and structured judgment rather than authority.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of experience in Product Marketing, Product Management, or closely related roles.
- Experience working with complex, system-level products (smart devices, hardware + software, regulated or high-cost products preferred).
- Proven ability to influence high-stakes product decisions under uncertainty.
- Demonstrated experience making or contributing to difficult product trade-offs, including scope reduction, simplification, or stopping initiatives.
- Strong system-level judgment and comfort operating with incomplete information.
- Ability to identify critical assumptions and design practical validation paths.
- Excellent written and verbal communication for executive-level decision-making.
- Comfort challenging momentum and surfacing risks early.
- Ability to connect user experience, system complexity, and lifetime economics.
- Structured thinker who produces decision-ready inputs and uses analytical or AI tools to support scenario comparison, stress testing, and trade-off analysis.
- Comfortable using AI-powered tools as part of daily work, including market research, competitive analysis, and insight synthesis.
- Able to apply AI tools to structure thinking, explore alternative hypotheses, and pressure-test product and market assumptions.
- Fluency in written and spoken Chinese (Mandarin) is required.
Nice to Have
- Experience building repeatable AI-assisted workflows to improve research depth, speed, and decision quality is a strong plus.
Team & Environment
This role currently reports directly to the CEO. You will have direct access to leadership and product decision forums, with responsibility proportional to impact, not title.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive starting base salary with upside based on scope and experience.
- Performance-based bonus tied to scope, decision quality and revenue impact.
- Comprehensive health benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life, FSA, HSA, etc.).
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Tenure-based PTO and holidays.
- Employee discounts on company products.
- Potential business travel opportunities to China and Asia regions.
- Visa sponsorship opportunities, including H-1B and employment-based Green Card sponsorship, for qualified candidates.
Work Mode
This is an onsite role based in Monrovia, California.
Schneider Innovations is an equal opportunity employer.
