Staff Client Product Manager 2247
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Job Location:
Santa Clara County, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
20 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
As a Staff 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 products strategic vision in addition to optimizing the products 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
- Serve as the go-to person for your product line driving product strategy roadmap definition and technical/business plans for KIOXIAs next-generation client SSDs (laptop notebook and mobile platforms)
- Steer and align marketing sales engineering operations and support teams within KIOXIA to ensure successful execution and market adoption of your product line(s)
- Drive OEM customer requirements and market trends into market requirement documents (MRDs) for next-generation product development with a strong focus on client workloads power efficiency and form factor constraints
- Build and execute go-to-market strategies for client SSD products including pricing positioning segmentation and launch readiness with key OEMs
- Develop and maintain deep relationships with key OEM customers (laptop/notebook manufacturers) acting as the primary interface for product definition design wins and issue resolution
- Analyze market trends and competitive products including performance power cost and feature positioning to define winning strategies in the client SSD space
- Drive design wins and OEM qualifications including:
- Managing AVL processes platform validation and compatibility testing across OEM platforms
- Supporting system integration requirements (BIOS/firmware thermals power states form factors such as M.2)
- Oversee pre-sales technical engagement including RFQs RFIs specification alignment and gap analysis in collaboration with technical marketing and customer support teams
- Provide product and market-centric content for internal teams and OEM-facing collateral including presentations briefs and competitive positioning
- Own the full product lifecycle management from concept and definition through development launch volume ramp and end-of-life
- Act as a subject matter expert and product evangelist representing KIOXIA with OEMs partners and at industry/customer events
Qualifications :
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science Business or related field; MBA preferred
- 7 years of product management experience in SSDs storage semiconductors or related client hardware technologies
- Prior experience working with tier-1 OEMs (laptop/notebook manufacturers) or client platform ecosystems strongly preferred
- Strong understanding of:
- Client SSD architecture NAND flash and controller/SoC design
- NVMe and PCIe interfaces (Gen3/4/5) in client environments
- Client platform requirements including power management (APST low-power states) thermals and form factors (M.2 BGA SSDs)
- Familiarity with:
- Client operating systems and drivers (Windows Linux) and storage stacks
- Platform validation processes and OEM qualification cycles
- Emerging client trends such as AI PCs edge workloads and power/performance optimization
- Proven ability to translate technical market and customer requirements into differentiated product features and roadmaps
- Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with experience working across global teams and diverse OEM customer bases
- Excellent communication and executive presentation skills with the ability to convey complex technical and business concepts effectively
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously prioritize effectively under uncertainty and drive execution across cross-functional teams
- Role may require cross-segment flexibility in the future with the opportunity to rotate between Client (OEM/Notebook) Hyperscale/Data Center or Enterprise (Large OEMs) SSD Product Management to build broad domain expertise and drive unified product strategy
- Willingness to travel (20%) domestic and international to support OEM engagements and design activities
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with OEM design-in cycles platform bring-up and mass production ramps
- Understanding of client benchmarking performance tuning and power optimization techniques
- Familiarity with industry standards and compliance requirements (e.g. NVMe PCI-SIG)
- Experience collaborating with ecosystem partners (CPU/platform vendors such as Intel/AMD OS vendors BIOS/firmware teams)
- Exposure to commercial segmentation (consumer commercial gaming workstation PCs) and associated requirements
Additional Information :
Req#2247; #LI-CB1;
The expected salary for this position is $144330.00 - $240550.00.
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.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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About Company
No Relocation Assistance Provided. KIOXIA America, Inc. is the U.S.-based subsidiary of KIOXIA Corporation, a leading worldwide supplier of flash memory and solid state drives (SSDs). From the invention of flash memory to today’s breakthrough BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memory technology, KI ... View more
