KIOXIA America, Inc. (formerly Toshiba Memory America, Inc.) is the US-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 technology, KIOXIA continues to pioneer cutting-edge memory solutions and services that enrich people's lives and expand society's horizons. The company's innovative 3D flash memory technology, BiCS FLASH™, is shaping the future of storage in high-density applications, including advanced smartphones, PCs, SSDs, automotive and data centers.

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 and flexible work options

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. This position could either be located in San Jose, CA or Irvine, CA.

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
• Lead 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

• Bachelor’s Degree required – Business/Marketing/Engineering (or related field) - MBA preferred
• 7+ minimum years in product management 
• Understanding of current and future SSD architectures, features and/or NAND flash memory a plus
• 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

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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.