Job Description

KIOXIA America Inc. is seeking a highly skilled Ecosystem Marketing Specialist to develop and grow our SSD business in the SSD ecosystem development segment. This individual directly reports to the Director of SSD Ecosystem Development and requires a unique blend of strategic negotiation, technical, and marketing skills. Not only you will coordinate internally with many cross-functional teams to reach critical business decisions on ecosystem and technical support strategy, but you will work with world-class ecosystem leaders directly in the industry. The ecosystem scope includes hardware companies such as CPUs, PCIe related peripherals, etc. and software companies such as Operating Systems, Storage Drivers, Virtualization Software, Software-Defined Storage (SDS) and so on.

You will drive and manage ecosystem strategy at both a tactical and strategic level while working closely with customers, sales, product managers, technical marketing, business ops, and other cross-functional teams. This is a complex job that requires exceptional attention to detail, multi-tasking capabilities, and the ability to follow through on initiatives with many internal teams, from the roadmap alignment, SSD sample planning, SSD validations, and to plan/execute joint marketing activities. This position provides an excellent opportunity to participate growing SSD ecosystem industry including NVMe, SDS, and other new emerging market such as AI/ML, block-chain and autonomous driving.

• Create ecosystem sampling plan based on the ecosystem strategy
• Maintain ecosystem SSD AVL/compatibility matrix
• Work with KIOXIA global and local stakeholders including product planning, sales, and technical support
• Execute ecosystem related tasks and guide to resolve any technical and business issues

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with a Bachelor’s or 3+ years of experience with a Master’s degree
• Business level verbal and writing/reading communication skills in English
• Excellent in-person communicator
• Understanding of the basic computer architecture or open to learn computer technologies
• Self-learner to catch up internal and external technical and product knowledge
• Understanding of enterprise/data center/client system is plus
• Understanding of SSD and flash memory technologies is plus

Additional Information

REQ# 2069; #LI-JV1 All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.