Product Marketing Manager

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop smartphone wearable device voice-controlled gadget flexible screen VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles integrated circuits packaging printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists engineers data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the worlds leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrows electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively. Enabling the movement towards advanced chip design KLAs Global Products Group (GPG) which is responsible for creating all of KLAs metrology and inspection products is looking for the best and the brightest research scientist software engineers application development engineers and senior product technology process engineers. The LS-SWIFT Division of KLAs Global Products Group provides patterned wafer inspection systems for high-volume semiconductor manufacturing. Its mission is to deliver market-leading cost of ownership in defect detection for a broad range of applications in the production of semiconductors. Customers from the foundry logic memory automotive MEMS advanced packaging and other markets rely upon high-sample wafer inspection information generated by LS-SWIFT products. LS (Laser Scanning) systems enable cost-effective patterned wafer defect detection for the industrys most sophisticated process technologies deployed in leading-edge foundry logic DRAM and NAND fabs. SWIFT (Simultaneous Wafer Inspection at Fast Throughput) systems deliver all-wafer-surface (frontside backside and edge) macro inspection that is critical for automotive IC MEMS and advanced packaging processes as well as foundry/logic and memory fabs. LS-SWIFT operates from a global footprint that includes the US Singapore India and Germany and serves a worldwide customer base across Asia Europe and North America.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

About the Team

The LS-SWIFT division is part of the InSIGHT group and consists in an organization globally located in US India and Singapore.

The LS-SWIFT division has the mission toprovide cost-effective solutions for high-sampling wafer inspection applications. We effectively partner with field support teams and customers to lower overall fab costs by supplying world-leading high-throughput inspection metrology and review systems. Our comprehensive product portfolio includes: all-wafer-surface (frontside backside and edge) macro inspection standalone high-sampling inspection and standalone edge inspection and metrology tools that are deployed across several advanced wafer fabs for a large number of applications.

Besides developing valuable products the LS-SWIFT division provides support to the customers to achieve performance entitlement through the sharing and implementation of applications BKM (Best Known Methods).

Key Responsibilities

• Direct the development of company market requirements for specific product(s) or product line(s) including product strategy definition requirements analysis and pricing.
• Monitor the development of business plans managing lifecycles and product positioning in the marketplace.
• Reduce broad concepts and business strategies into structured product marketing plans.
• Oversees market research monitors competitive activity and identifies customer needs.
• Establish pricing strategies. Interact with engineering manufacturing and sales to enhance existing product(s) or product line(s).
• Leads new product definition and business plans with joint departments.
• Selects develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
• Employees matched to this job family should have responsibility for managing people in addition to product responsibility.
• Works on issues of diverse scope where requires some level of analysis.
• Collects data on a variety of factors including market trends customer information competition and environmental information in order to support or provide input on the company strategies or policies.
• Executes strategies and supports sales channel for a region or a customer.

Minimum Qualifications

We offer a competitive family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.

KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer

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