--- title: 'Product Marketing Manager at Trener' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-marketing-manager-trener-san-jose-rjkrg2f9h6w0' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Product Marketing Manager at Trener - **Company:** Trener - **Location:** San Jose, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-20 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/trener-robotics/bc233476-522b-46c3-8f4c-eb044d80f591 ## Job description Product Marketing Manager Location: On-site in San Jose, California, USA Reports to: VP of Marketing, Barcelona, Spain Start Date: Early September 2026 Level: Fluid for Product Marketing Manager or Senior Help define how the world understands Physical AI. At Trener, we're building the intelligence layer for industrial robots. Our software platform, Acteris, enables industrial robots to understand their environment, make intelligent decisions, and execute complex manufacturing tasks with minimal programming. By combining AI, robotics, and industrial software, we're helping manufacturers automate production with a level of flexibility that wasn't previously possible. Backed by leading investors and working alongside global robot manufacturers, semiconductor companies, and automation partners, we're helping define a new category: Physical AI platform for industrial robots. As we continue to grow, the (Senior) Product Marketing Manager will play a foundational role in shaping how Trener is positioned in the market and accelerating our next stage of growth. ## Your Mission As our first dedicated Product Marketing hire, you'll partner closely with the VP of Marketing to build the Product Marketing function and define Trener's positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategy. Working across Product, Sales, Engineering, and executive leadership, you'll transform complex AI and robotics technology into compelling customer value through product launches, commercial enablement, and world-class storytelling for manufacturers, partners, robot OEMs, semiconductor companies, and investors. We're looking for a hands-on builder who combines strategic thinking with exceptional execution and thrives in a fast-moving, high-growth environment. ## Key Responsibilities Working closely with the VP of Marketing and cross-functional teams, you will: - Drive product positioning, messaging, and category development across our products, applications, industries, and target audiences, ensuring Trener is clearly differentiated in the market. - Develop a deep understanding of customers, partners, competitive intelligence, and market trends to continuously refine positioning and messaging. - Lead go-to-market planning and execution for new products, features, industries, and applications, from positioning and launch strategy to commercial enablement. - Own sales, marketing, and partner enablement, including customer success stories, partner case studies, competitive assets, and commercial proof points. - Partner with executive leadership on keynote presentations, strategic announcements, investor communications, and major company messaging. - Support US field marketing initiatives, including conferences, trade shows, customer visits, partner events, and product demonstrations. - Contribute hands-on to digital marketing initiatives, including website content, SEO, campaigns, marketing automation, and demand generation, while ensuring consistent product positioning across every customer touchpoint. - Build scalable Product Marketing processes, frameworks, and best practices that support Trener's long-term growth. - This role requires travel within the United States to support customer visits, partner meetings, conferences, and trade shows. What Great Looks Like ## Experience - 8+ years of Product Marketing experience in B2B technology, with a strong background in software, AI, or enterprise platforms. Experience in robotics is preferred, while industrial automation or manufacturing software is highly desirable. - Proven experience bringing products to market through positioning, messaging, go-to-market strategy, launches, and commercial enablement. - Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Engineering, and executive leadership in fast-growing or venture-backed technology companies. - Hands-on experience in both Product Marketing and Digital Marketing, with a solid understanding of demand generation, website strategy, SEO, marketing automation, and field marketing. ## Skills & Capabilities - Exceptional storytelling skills, with the ability to transform complex technologies into compelling customer value through presentations, product and demo videos, websites, product collateral, and sales enablement. - Strategic thinker with a hands-on, execution-focused mindset and a proven ability to deliver high-quality outcomes. - Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and workflows to accelerate product marketing, content creation, research, and commercial execution. Attributes - Creative, customer-centric, and naturally curious, with a bias for action and strong attention to detail. - Comfortable building from scratch, collaborating across functions, and thriving in fast-moving environments. ## What You'll Get - The opportunity to build the Product Marketing function. - A defining role in shaping the positioning and commercial narrative of one of the industry's most ambitious Physical AI companies. - Direct collaboration with the CEO and leadership team on product strategy, company messaging, and commercial initiatives. - Exposure to some of the world's leading robotics, manufacturing, and semiconductor companies. - A highly visible role with meaningful ownership and the opportunity to influence company growth from an early stage. - Equity as part of your compensation package. If you're excited about helping define a new category in AI and robotics, building Product Marketing from the ground up, and creating the stories that shape an industry, we'd love to hear from you. ## About Trener ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Industrial robotics automation / Physical AI software - **Target customers**: B2B – manufacturing companies, system integrators, and shop-floor operations running high-mix, low-volume production - **Mission**: Replace rigid, scripted robot programming with training-based, autonomous execution to make industrial automation more flexible and scalable. ## Products & Services - **Acteris**: The core intelligence layer for industrial robots – a vendor-agnostic platform that provides vision, language, and action understanding to enable skills-based programming, natural language task specification, real-time adaptation, and production monitoring. Compatible with ABB, Universal Robots, and FANUC, with more brands planned. - **T-Labs**: Dedicated R&D engine that develops new robot skills using vision-language-action models, simulation, and data-efficient training pipelines. Feeds production-ready capabilities into Acteris. - **T-Job, T-Agents, T-Vision, T-Sim, T-Monitor, T-Skill, T-Sense (coming soon)**: Specific modules within Acteris for job orchestration, agentic control, vision perception, simulation, monitoring, skill execution, and haptic sensing. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $38.2M across four rounds (Pre-Seed, Seed, Seed extension, Series A) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Engine Ventures, IAG Capital Partners, Emergent Ventures - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew 350% year-over-year to 31 employees (LinkedIn data) - Won the Industry Startup Forum Award at Advanced Factories 2026 - Winner of ABB Startup Challenge 2024 - Expanding to additional robot brands beyond ABB, Universal Robots, and FANUC - Opened offices in San Jose (US HQ) and Barcelona (new hybrid location) ## Competitive Advantages - **Robot-agnostic intelligence layer**: Works across multiple robot brands (ABB, UR, FANUC) without requiring hardware replacement – can retrofit existing workcells. - **Physical AI approach**: Replaces traditional point-to-point programming with Vision-Language-Action models, enabling robots to handle variability and changeovers autonomously. - **Skills, not scripts**: Deployable, reusable robot skills that can be commissioned and scaled across cells, reducing deployment time and maintenance. - **Partner-led commissioning**: Standardized integration suite allows trusted partners to deploy consistently, enabling faster scaling. ## Strategic Focus - Scale deployment of Acteris across more production environments, particularly high-mix, low-volume manufacturing. - Expand robot brand compatibility to additional leading industrial robot manufacturers. - Continue building T-Labs to advance embodied intelligence and skill learning. - Grow the partner ecosystem and sales channels (recent hires like VP of Sales Jacob Pascual Pape indicate commercial acceleration). ## Why Work Here - **Cutting-edge technology**: Work on Physical AI, foundation models, and real-world robotics – a rare intersection of AI and industrial automation. - **Global team**: Offices in San Jose (US), Trondheim (Norway), and Barcelona (Spain) with employees across 6 countries. Hybrid work model (in-office in San Jose and Barcelona, with remote flexibility in some roles). - **Growth trajectory**: Young company (founded 2024) with rapid headcount growth and strong investor backing – opportunity to shape the product and culture early. - **Award-winning environment**: Recognized at Advanced Factories 2026 and ABB Startup Challenge, signaling industry credibility. - **Open roles**: Currently hiring for Integration Engineers (software and field), Technical Sales Engineers, QA Engineers, Business Development Managers, Channel Managers, and Application Engineers – indicating scaling across engineering, sales, and operations. ## Sources 1. [trener.ai](https://trener.ai/) 2. [trener.ai/company](https://trener.ai/company) 3. [trener.ai/platform](https://trener.ai/platform) 4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/trener-robotics) 5. 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