Product Marketing Manager - AI

Overview

If you are a Product Marketing professional looking for an opportunity to grow your career, Emerson Power and Water Solutions (PWS) has an excellent opportunity! As the Product Marketing Manager - AI
, you will promote AI applications on the Ovation Intelligence Framework. This role plays a pivotal part in achieving value across our power and water customer base by increasing adoption, improving control systems, and developing outstanding, revenue-generating solutions. You will be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of AI applications -- from conceptualization through market adoption -- ensuring they tackle real-world customer challenges and drive long-term recurring revenue.

This position can be located in our Charlotte, NC, Cranberry Township, PA, St. Louis, MO, or Tinley Park, IL office.

At Emerson Power & Water Solutions, we help customers in the world’s most critical industries address the challenges of modern life. As an industry-leading controls automation company, we drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, and more sustainable! Emerson’s five decades of power and water expertise embedded within the Ovation™ distributed control system (DCS) forms a reliable and innovative platform that evolves with rapidly changing technology to help improve plant reliability.

• AI & Application Strategy

  • Recommend a comprehensive product roadmap for AI-powered applications that advances customer value and aligns with Emerson’s strategic vision.

  • Identify customer challenges and integrate emerging technologies to define high-value use cases in areas such as renewables integration and process optimization.

• New Product Development

  • Develop business plans and product requirements informed by market research and customer feedback.

  • Ensure AI and software-based applications are designed around specific customer needs, driving adoption and continuous improvement.

  • Create marketing collateral, release communications, and training materials for new product launches.

• Application Commercialization

  • Lead a cross-functional team to build and execute Go-to-Market plans, ensuring strong product-market fit and customer value.

  • Run new product introduction programs that support early adoption and benchmark-level performance.

  • Collaborate with Sales, Software Development, and Customer Success teams to convert pilots into long-term subscriptions and contribute to ARR growth.

  • Support technical selling through customer presentations that connect product capability with operational value.

  • Provide global support for new product and application releases, empowering world-area teams to expand their sales funnel.

• Leadership & Collaboration

  • Build strong internal partnerships with Development, Sales, and Project teams to foster alignment and accelerate innovation.

  • Engage customers, utilities, and industry groups to gather insights, define product direction, and promote thought leadership.

  • Work closely with Marketing to develop plans that increase market awareness and demand generation.

  • Serve as a key voice for the product’s value proposition and differentiation, synthesizing input across internal and external stakeholders.

You build strong partnerships and maintain long-lasting relationships with key accounts. You leverage customer insights to guide the development of innovative offerings. You are a visionary who can articulate credible pictures of possibilities and future opportunities. You adapt your communication style to meet the needs of diverse audiences and foster collaboration across teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or a related field.

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, including experience in process engineering, marketing, or business development

• Minimum of 3 years of experience with AI applications and solutions.

• Ability to interpret market dynamics, customer feedback, and emerging technology trends.

• Ability to travel up to 20-30%.

• Legal authorization to work in the United States. Sponsorship will not be provided for this position.

• 10+ years in technology leadership, ideally in power generation, utilities, or industrial automation.

• Proven success delivering AI, analytics, or software applications with measurable commercial impact.

• Understanding of control systems (DCS/SCADA), AI/ML frameworks, and software development processes.

• Familiarity with Emerson’s Ovation™ platform and related application ecosystems.

Our compensation philosophy is simple: we pay a competitive base salary, within the local market in which we operate, and reward performance during our annual merit review process. The salary range for this role is $130, annually, commensurate with the skills, talent, capabilities, and experience each candidate brings to a role.

We prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse…