Head Of Product Marketing

Lightmatter builds chips for artificial intelligence computing. Our architecture leverages unique properties of light to enable fast and efficient inference and training engines. If you're a collaborative engineer or scientist who has a passion for innovation, solving challenging technical problems and doing impactful work...work like building the world's first optical computers, consider joining the team at Lightmatter!
Reporting directly to the VP of Product Steve Klinger, you will be working with engineering, sales, operations, finance, and executive team to accelerate the adoption of Lightmatter products in segment-defining categories.
If you're a collaborative Product Marketing leader who has a passion for innovation, solving challenging technical problems and doing impactful work...work like building the world's first optical computers, consider joining the team at Lightmatter!
Responsibilities:

• Lead the creation and generation of detailed outbound and customer materials including:

Sales presentations
Whitepapers
Videos
Product technical collateral (e.g. datasheets and user guides directly managing a technical writer)
Web content

• Drive preparation and staffing for industry conferences, trade shows including detailed planning with the creative team.
• Actively drive design win pipeline and assist customer deal proposal development, negotiation and closure of key opportunities
• Drive NPI and product rollout detailed planning logistics with operations teams
• Develop formal pricing and gross margin models and publish guidelines establishing needed margins
• Manage product naming, part numbering and consistency with branding as established by the creative team.
• Drive product forecasting and assist finance team with long-term revenue projections
• Serve as primary marketing resource for Product Lifecycle Management
• Conduct target market analysis and business ROI analysis
• Compile detailed competitive analysis data - identify strategy for differentiation vs. competition and develop messaging and collateral
• Assist in staffing of factory applications engineering function with ability to directly hire and manage factory applications engineering resources as needed.
• Drive ODM/OEM partner engagement expanding market reach for Lightmatter solutions
• Prepare and conduct sales training
• Author press releases and brief industry press/analyst related to LM products and market initiatives.

Requirements

• 12+ years in Product Marketing, product management, applications engineering, and business development roles driving high-complexity semiconductor products and associated software tools and development software to volume production
• Broad knowledge of the semiconductor and datacenter industry vendor space especially as it relates to networking interconnects, and highly integrated processing devices.
• Experience driving products through the full development cycle from business case/definition, through development, design-in, production, and EOL cycles
• Strong knowledge of networking and interconnect devices.
• Experience building and owning budgets, forecasts, and providing strategic insight based on key performance metrics
• 5+ years team leadership experience
• Demonstrated senior management experience reporting to top B.U. and corporate management in achievement of business objectives

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• 401k matching
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Paid Family Leave
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Flexible, hybrid workplace model
• Stock Option Plan

Base Compensation Range: $200,000 to $300,000. In accordance with the Colorado, California and New York law, the range provided is Lightmatter's reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. Actual pay will be based on several factors including work experience, location and education.
Lightmatter recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.