Senior Product Marketing Manager - Smart Spaces and Lumada Video Insights

Meet our Team

We are seeking an entrepreneurial, experienced, energetic, results-driven storyteller to bring our quickly growing Smart Spaces solution to life for customers, analysts, and sales teams, and help further scale the business in key verticals such as transportation, manufacturing, energy, smart cities, and retail. You will partner with business leaders, product management and engineering to distill complex technologies and services offerings into clear customer stories that communicate our benefits and then work with marketing and sales teams to ensure they are leveraged to drive demand for your products and solutions. You will be a subject matter expert and thought leader, responsible for defining messaging, executing product launches, cultivating thought leadership, feeding campaigns, and collaborating across business units to amplify our value propositions.

You're an experienced product marketer who is energized by the challenge of marketing innovative products within the Lumada Video Insights portfolio. You are a creative, resourceful, goal oriented self starter who values collaboration and open communication with your team, and is inspired to make a positive impact in the world through technology-enabled solutions. You enjoy the ability to deliver clear written and visual material to tell outstanding stories that inspire customers to buy your products and influencers to write about them. You are familiar with technologies such as IoT, AI, computer vision, 3D lidar, software applications and analytics and how best to communicate their benefits to various audiences.

What you'll be doing

• Define and validate the messaging and positioning for products and solutions, socialize them across stakeholders, and leverage them to build a core set of marketing materials


• Plan and manage minor and major product launches to ensure all content and communication is delivered and on message


• Create external-facing content (slide decks, blogs, papers, videos, etc...) aligned to customer challenges, sales needs, and competitive threats


• Regularly engage with industry analysts to keep them up-to-date on our product and solutions, test product messaging and positioning, and solicit feedback from their view of the market


• Create and ensure the successful execution of the go-to-market strategy across the larger marketing team
  Use market insight and customer data to drive product requirements and collaborate on product definitions and positioning.


• Collaborate and lead cross-functional projects to help drive the internal awareness and support for the business and product traction through internal channels


• Collaborate with sales teams to ensure customer-centric messaging and materials are created and delivered effectively


• Contribute to high-level conversations about societal impacts and global issues with executive audiences, communications, and marketing, as well as somewhat technical and detailed conversations about products, solutions, professional services, and partners with consulting, product management and engineering stakeholders

What you bring to the team

• You have over 7 years of experience in product and/or solution marketing


• You are a storyteller able to break down complex concepts into simple and clear terms and a strong writer and visual communicator


• You have demonstrated ability in launching and growing innovative technology products thought the product lifecycle


• You are a problem solver who thrives in a high growth environment and possesses a positive "can do" attitude


• You bring either subject matter expertise in IIOT platform technologies and use cases around verticals like manufacturing, energy, transportation or you have the curiosity and desire to dig in and understand technology and its impact


• You have a bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent work experience; MBA or advanced degree a plus.


• We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Our Company

Hitachi Vantara is part of the Global Hitachi family. We balance innovation with an open, friendly culture and the backing of a long-established parent company, known for its ethical reputation. We guide customers from what's now to what's next by unlocking the value of their data and applications to solve their digital challenges, achieving outcomes that benefit both business and society.

Our people are our biggest asset, they drive our innovation advantage and we strive to offer a flexible and collaborative workplace where they can thrive. Diversity of thought is welcomed and our employee base is represented by several active Employee Resource Group communities. We offer industry leading benefits packages (flexible working, generous pension and private healthcare) and promote a creative and inclusive culture. If driving real change gives you a sense of pride and you are passionate about powering social good, we'd love to hear from you.

Our Values

We strive to create an inclusive environment for all and are open to considering home working, compressed/flexible hours and flexible arrangements. Get in touch with us to explore how we might be able to accommodate your specific needs.

We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. With Japanese roots going back over 100 years, our culture is founded on the values of our parent company expressed as the Hitachi Spirit:

Wa - Harmony, Trust, Respect

Makoto - Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity

Kaitakusha-Seishin - Pioneering Spirit, Challenge