Software Acceleration Product Marketing Manager

Xilinx is the world’s leading provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs and 3D ICs, enabling the next generation of smarter, connected, and differentiated systems and networks. Driven by the industry-wide shifts towards Cloud Computing, SDN/NFV, Video Everywhere, Embedded Vision, Industrial IoT, and 5G Wireless, Xilinx innovations enable these applications that are both, software defined, yet hardware optimized.

Xilinx Inc., the world’s leading provider of All Programmable System on Chip and Field Programmable Gate Arrays, is seeking a talented, self-driven and motivated product marketing manager to be part of the Xilinx SDx development environment initiative. SDx enables developers with little or no FPGA expertise to use high level programming languages such as OpenCL, C and C++ to leverage the power of programmable hardware with industry standard processors on or off chip.

The Software Defined Acceleration team is at the forefront of programming model abstraction development for FPGAs. The goal of this team is to transform FPGA programming from a hardware/IP centric design methodology into a pure software driven environment for a design experience similar to that of a CPU/GPU with FPGA optimized libraries. Being a member of the team simply requires the passion and motivation to drive the adoption of new technologies by understanding customer requirements, challenges and the ability to articulate customer centric solutions with Xilinx products. * Discovering applications in Xilinx focused markets that can benefit from FPGA acceleration using the software defined workflows * Creating collateral highlighting software application acceleration on FPGAs * Defining examples and competitive benchmarks for accelerating adoption of FPGAs in software defined workflows * Working with engineering, ecosystem partners and segment marketing counterparts * Writing marketing requirements documents * Managing outbound communications * Creating Go-To-Market strategies including field and ecosystem enablement * The position will include some travel.

We are currently searching for a highly motivated individual to join our team as a Software Acceleration Product Marketing Manager. The successful candidate will work with customers, our sales force, marketing and engineering to define roadmaps and will have responsibility for the strategy, business plan, product rollout plan, and marketing. This individual should have an entrepreneurial spirit, technical competence, and initiative. Creativity, good listening skills, inquisitiveness, business insights, and decision making ability are critical for success. **Job Requirements** * 6-10 years of industry experience * BSEE or equivalent * Experience with OpenCL or C/C++ or GPU programming APIs such as CUDA * Application level programming experience * Solid understanding of software design, debugging and performance tuning concepts * Excellent communication skills, both written and oral * Excellent customer interface skills * Team player * Well organized and ability to multi-task **Desired attributes:** * MSEE or equivalent * Experience defining marketing requirements and involvement in product planning * Embedded systems and real-time operating systems experience * Experience using or implementing libraries for creating graphics, DSP or HPC applications * Understanding of FPGA and SoC architectures / benefits * Low level experience on using ARM, DSPs, multi-core CPUs or GPU development boards