Technical Product Marketing Manager at Vicor Corp

Job Summary

This self-motivated individual will ensure success in identifying new product requirements and driving high performance power module products world-wide in the industrial market. This individual should have a strong technical and business acumen and is capable of gaining support and coordinating activities across a dynamic organization.

Job Description

Responsibilities
•    Define new product requirements and capability by leveraging internal technology advancements to customer requirements, industry trends, and competitive mapping.
•    Establish and maintain relationships at all top 100 customer engineering departments with the goal of having a complete understanding of system roadmaps and how those roadmaps relate to Vicor architectures.  
•    Establish new product development requirements, through market and customer research, resulting in new product business justifications that include return on investment estimates taking into account revenue forecast and development costs as well as provide input into the  technical risk assessment and development timeline.
•    Coordinate and align with the engineering and manufacturing organizations the product development market requirements including product specifications, customer/market  schedules, and any 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

• A degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering; MBA preferred
• 10 years related technical marketing, sales, and/or applications engineering
• Knowledge of analog and/or power integrated circuits and the application into industrial markets
• 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
• Ability to travel world-wide up to 25% of time