Position: Strategic Marketing Director
Location: Milpitas, CA
Duration: Full time
Business Unit:
The Wafer Inspection Division (WIN) is the world leader in the design and manufacture of advanced optical inspection tools for inline monitoring of process defects in advanced semiconductor factories.
Responsibilities:
As head of WIN Strategic Marketing the individual will be responsible for creating and analyzing product strategy worldwide - covering both memory and foundry sectors - for all of WIN products. They will analyze multiple different product roadmap strategies to determine which one is optimized to solve our customer’s problems with the best possible return on investment for K-T.
Responsibilities include overseeing and managing the WIN proportion of the K-T strategic planning process, presenting tactical and strategic plans to the WIN GM and Senior Executives within K-T. The individual will also need to travel and interact with key customers on a quarterly basis - listening to their concerns and formulating cost effective solutions. They will be expected to educate and achieve alignment from the K-T Business Units on a specific WIN strategy. Finally, the individual will be expected to give direct guidance to both engineering and technology for development of advanced technology that will meet our customer’s future needs.
This will be a highly visible position to executives within K-T and to the senior management at our key customers.
Preferred Qualifications:
- The successful individual will have a MS or PhD in science, engineering, or field directly related to the semiconductor industry.
- At least 5 years of experience leading a marketing organization or setting a strategy responsible for a business line of $200M or more in yearly revenue in the area of capital equipment.
- A track record of customer collaboration to solve difficult customer problems. Excellent leadership, communication and presentation skills.
- Analytical abilities to analyze business strategies and determine strategies to optimize ROI.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 10 years of experience.
OR
Master's Level Degree with at least 8 years of experience.
Kindly send your resumes to raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com