Job Description

AI That Moves the World. Careers That Move You Forward.

At Cerence AI, you’ll help transform advanced AI into trusted, real-world solutions that make complex technology – think vehicles, robots, smart manufacturing, and emerging intelligent devices – more natural, reliable, and useful. Building on decades of innovation and global deployment in automotive, we are extending our expertise into new products, markets, and intelligent systems.

As part of our global team, you’ll work alongside leading innovators, researchers, engineers, and business leaders to solve meaningful challenges and turn breakthrough ideas into technology people use every day. You’ll have the opportunity to make a visible impact, help shape Cerence AI’s next chapter, and move your own career forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Define positioning and messaging. Build messaging frameworks, value propositions and differentiated positioning for our products and solutions across automotive, robotics and industrial markets. Connect company strategy, portfolio capabilities, industry use cases, and customer outcomes into compelling product stories that show up consistently across touchpoints.
• Turn technology into value. Translate technical metrics and benchmarks (such as accuracy, latency, on-device footprint and language coverage) into a clear differentiation story and measurable customer value.
• Communicate with impact. Create and present technical content and product communications, including presentations, website content, whitepapers, blogs, videos and launch messaging. Make sure every customer touchpoint tells a consistent story.
• Equip Sales to win. Build pitches, solution briefs, use cases, battlecards and training that help Sales and Business Development tell our story with confidence.
• Shape demos and events. Collaborate with Product Management to decide which demos get built and what story they tell, and bring our products to life at CES and other industry events.
• Directly engage with customers to build customer proof. Develop customer success stories, partner case studies and proof-of-value stories. Run co-marketing with customers and partners.
• Be a voice for our products. Partner with Communications on thought leadership, analyst briefings, earnings communications, and major company moments. Present our products externally.
• Stay ahead. Track competitors and industry trends, and work with Product Management to keep our positioning sharp and our roadmap well aligned to what the market needs.

First priorities:

• Set clear positioning and a messaging framework for our core products and solutions in automotive and robotics.
• Define the benchmarks and proof points we use in every customer conversation.
• Launch a refreshed sales toolkit, demo storyline and customer proof stories.

What You'll Bring

Required:

• 10+ years of experience in product marketing, technical marketing or product management for complex technical products.
• Strong positioning, messaging and storytelling skills, with work you can show us. Proven ability to connect a broad portfolio to a cohesive company narrative.
• Some level of technical fluency in AI, and the ability to go deep with engineers on what makes a model or feature different, then translate it to explain to any audience.
• Proven track record demonstrating the ability to think big and contribute to the long term vision, looking beyond the curve
• Experience turning technical metrics into differentiation and customer value.
• A track record of creating technical content, sales enablement and customer proof that drove adoption or revenue.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills for executive, technical and industry audiences.
• Ability to influence across product, engineering, sales and communications teams.
• A hands-on approach and desire to get in and do the work.

Preferred:

• Experience with voice AI, audio AI, LLMs or edge AI.
• Experience in automotive and/or robotics or other AI-powered systems.
• Experience with demo and event strategy, analyst relations or partner co-marketing.
• Experience at an AI-native, platform or developer-focused company.

Cerence AI (NASDAQ: CRNC) helps people and intelligent systems work together naturally and reliably. Proven at global scale in automotive, Cerence provides the trusted interaction and action layer connecting people, machines, and intelligent systems. Its AI platform enables natural interaction and dependable action across complex real-world environments where reliability, safety, security, and performance are critical. Working with customers and partners worldwide, Cerence transforms advanced AI into trusted solutions that bridge the gap between AI potential and real-world performance.

For more information, visit www.cerence.ai.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Cerence is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, genetic information and other protected classifications. Cerence Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

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• Encouraging to follow a zero tolerance for workplace violence.
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