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Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Product Marketing Manager

Product MarketingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLisle, IL, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least five years of experience in product marketing, product management, product launches, go-to-market strategy, or related activities in a technical or B2B environment.
  • Experience partnering directly with a business unit, product line, or portfolio and translating business priorities into actionable marketing plans.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop positioning, value propositions, and messaging for complex technical products and varied customer audiences.
  • Experience leading cross-functional product launches and coordinating deliverables across product management, engineering, sales, channel, and marketing teams.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence decisions, manage expectations, and communicate effectively across technical and non-technical teams at multiple organizational levels.
  • Highly organized project management skills, sound judgment, and meticulous attention to detail in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
  • Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to turn technical information into customer-focused content.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary product marketing partner and dedicated point of contact for an assigned business unit, building a deep understanding of its strategy, product portfolio, growth priorities, customers, and competitive landscape.
  • Partner with business-unit leaders and product managers to define and prioritize the product marketing roadmap, balancing launch requirements, portfolio initiatives, and longer-term growth opportunities.
  • Develop product positioning, value propositions, messaging frameworks, and product narratives that communicate technical differentiation and customer value to engineering, procurement, supply chain, and other priority audiences.
  • Lead go-to-market planning and execution for new product introductions and strategic portfolio initiatives, including launch objectives, target audiences, channel plans, deliverables, dependencies, milestones, and measures of success.
  • Coordinate creation and readiness of marketing collateral, sales enablement tools, product data, images, CAD models, drawings, and other assets required for Molex.com, distribution channels, and component aggregator networks.
  • Develop and maintain accurate, compelling product webpages, selection tools, and sales content that connect product features and technical specifications to customer applications and benefits.
  • Translate business-unit requests into clear creative briefs, requirements, acceptance criteria, and prioritized work for cross-functional marketing partners and Agile pods.
  • Collaborate with sales, channel, regional marketing, and communications teams to equip customer-facing teams with consistent messaging, relevant proof points, and effective launch materials.
  • Gather and synthesize customer, sales, channel, and stakeholder feedback to identify content gaps, refine messaging, and inform future product marketing priorities.
  • Monitor launch readiness, content performance, and agreed business outcomes; communicate progress, risks, decisions, and recommendations to business-unit and marketing stakeholders.
  • Champion product marketing and customer experience best practices within the assigned business unit while maintaining alignment with enterprise brand, digital, content, and governance standards.
  • Build trusted relationships across a matrixed organization, resolve competing priorities, and proactively remove barriers that could affect launch quality, timing, or business impact.

Desired Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, communications, engineering, or a related field.
  • Product marketing, product management, or sales experience in electronic connectors, interconnects, electronic components, or component distribution.
  • Understanding of engineering and supply chain personas and the information they need across the product discovery, design, and purchasing journey.
  • Experience using market, customer, and competitive insights to shape portfolio messaging, launch strategy, and content priorities.
  • Applied experience with Agile Marketing or Agile Scrum frameworks and tools; relevant Agile, Scrum, or product marketing certification is a plus.
  • Working knowledge of the Pragmatic Framework or a comparable product marketing methodology.
  • Ability to advocate for customer-centered product marketing practices while creating collaborative relationships with business-unit, product, and engineering stakeholders.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint, plus experience with work-management platforms such as Wrike.
  • Ability to collaborate periodically across global time zones, including Europe, the United States, and Asia.

About the Company

Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Koch Industries is a large, private, diversified conglomerate that operates in energy, chemical processing, and manufacturing. It started from an innovation that turned heavy crude oil into gasoline and grew through long‑term investments rather than short‑term market moves. The company generates value by refining fuels and producing chemical products, and it operates Georgia-Pacific, a major maker of paper and building products. Its business model relies on reinvesting most earnings back into the company to fund steady, long‑term growth rather than paying out frequent dividends or seeking quick profits. Koch differentiates itself from many competitors by staying privately owned, which reduces pressure from public markets and enables longer‑range planning. The company’s goal is to build scale and durability across its holdings by sustainable, multi‑decade growth rather than rapid, episodic gains.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding
$985.2M
Headquarters
Wichita, KS
Founded
1940

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