Job Description

As a Sr Product Manager on the SSD marketing team, you will work cross-functionally with sales, engineering, operations, and management to drive product awareness and design wins for KIOXIA SSD products. You will have the opportunity to define new products and product strategies, and will be responsible for setting the product’s strategic vision in addition to optimizing the product's market position and financial returns consistent with corporate key initiatives. You will understand customer applications and ecosystems, and have insight into their challenges and how to solve them.

Responsibilities:

• As the “go-to person” for your product line, you will be a key contributor towards developing product strategy, roadmaps, technical and business plans for KIOXIA’s next-generation SSDs
• Steer marketing, sales, engineering, and support teams within KIOXIA to ensure success of your product line(s)
• Drive customer and market trend technical requirements into market requirement documents for next-generation product development
• Build and implement the go-to-market strategy for your SSD products
• Analyze market trends and competitive products, understand the competition’s value-positioning, and devise product strategies to win against the competition
• Oversee pre-sales technical support to customers, including assisting technical marketing and customer support teams with RFQs, RFIs, and spec gap analyses
• Provide product and market-centric content for KIOXIA and customer marketing collateral
• Own the product lifecycle management for your SSD products from definition to end-of-life
• Be the subject matter expert for your product…evangelize your product and the company’s SSD vision with analysts, media and at industry events

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required – Business/Marketing/Engineering (or related field) - MBA preferred
• Prior Storage, SSD, NAND Flash, Storage Software, Networking experience preferred
• 10+ years of product management experience in technology products preferred
• Understanding of current and future SSD, NAND flash and/or memory, and SoC/Controller architecture
• Understanding of NVMe infrastructures in server and storage ecosystems a plus
• Experience within the storage industry across Private/Public Cloud, NAS/SAN/Object storage systems a plus
• Able to synthesize complex technical, financial and market information into strategies and differentiated product and feature definitions
• Strong interpersonal skills, including working with people from diverse backgrounds, geographical locations and expertise
• Executive-level presentation capabilities, skilled at both creation and delivery
• Ability to effectively communicate highly technical and business topics to appropriate audiences
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, think critically, prioritize product development despite uncertainty and organize data sets into actionable game plans
• Ability to travel up to ~25%, domestic and/or international

Additional Information

Req# 2212; #LI-CB1

The expected salary for this position is $157,590.00 - 262,900.00.

At KIOXIA, we value the following:

• Investment in you
  • Offering opportunities for career growth and personal development training
• Open-minded management
  • Empowering employees by listening and responding to ideas, issues, and approaches
• Flexible work-life balance
  • Offering a generous PTO allotment, holiday shutdown, and flexible work options
• Diversity of cultures, perspectives, backgrounds and experiences of all our team members
  • Through our diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, our focus is to strengthen our company culture to create more inclusion and belonging for all
• Benefits for our team members
  • Excellent medical and non-medical benefits, 401(k) matching, pet insurance

KIOXIA America, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.