Sr. Technical Automotive Product Marketing Manager at Vicor Corp

Job Summary

Vicor is seeking a strong technical contributor for its automotive business unit product marketing team. Responsible for product development plans needed to achieve results for new opportunity pipeline, new design wins, revenue and gross margin goals. Key leadership position within Vicor to drive a new business initiative in automotive, supporting and growing revenues with automakers (OEMs) and tier one suppliers to OEMs.
This self-motivated individual will ensure success in identifying new product requirements and driving high performance power module products worldwide in the automotive market by collaborating closely with internal and external engineers to ensure successful automotive programs. This individual must have a strong technical background and business acumen and be capable of gaining support and coordinating activities across a dynamic organization.
 

Job Description

•    Establish and maintain relationships at all top account engineering departments with the goal of having a complete understanding of system roadmaps and how those roadmaps relate to Vicor architectures.
•    Directly support customer program requirements from discovery to PPAP and (SOP) production
•    Work closely with engineering teams at top accounts to identify customer/market needs.
•    Product definition, validation and development, work closely with all departments: design engineering, Q&R, NPI group, operations, sales and marketing teams to support customer requirements and product development for key programs and projects.
•    Define and develop product collateral required to achieve market acceptance. Work closely with field sales and application engineers and beta customers to ensure design-in success. 
•    Maximize customer product adoption with sales training and support, direct customer interaction, and working closely with field application engineering in support of design-in efforts. 
•    Publish and/or present product related articles through trade journals and conferences.
 

Education / Qualifications

•    BS and/or MS in Electrical Engineering
•    Experience or training in technical marketing
•    Knowledge or past experience with DC/DC converters would be ideal in this new position: aimed at target applications: powertrain and chassis systems, AI platforms for level 3/4/5 vehicles, inverters, battery charging and BMS systems for EV, HEV, BEV, PHEV, Mild Hybrid vehicle platforms
•    Semiconductor technical experience, familiarity with automotive standards, AECQ100, IATF-16949 certification and the PPAP, SOP and safe launch process for automotive customers, powertrain architectures and chassis systems.
•    Experience defining analog, mixed-signal, and/or power integrated circuits
•    Self-motivated with a proven track record in technical marketing or applications role
•    Written and creative skills demonstrated through promotional material including presentations and white papers
•    5-10 years related technical marketing, sales, or applications engineering 
•    Ability to travel world-wide up to 10% of time