At our site in Thiendorf, Germany, you will play a key role in shaping the future of the Silicon Photonics business. Working closely with customers, product management, engineering, sales, and executive leadership, you will drive market strategy, product positioning, and commercial growth in one of the fastest-growing segments of the semiconductor industry.
Director of Product Marketing
Photonics Solutions for R&D to production test
Location: Germany / Hybrid
Department: Product Marketing – Systems BU
Reports To: VP of Marketing
Accountable for revenue, product creation and delivery, customer satisfactionProduct Champion, define and own the roadmap that drives revenue growth and market share with differentiated products and servicesLead product team, capturing customer requirements, driving comprehensive Market Requirement Documents (MRDs) to influence Engineering and Product Management long-term roadmaps.Conduct continuous competitive intelligence and market analysis on automated alignment, instrumentation, interconnect and wafer prober ecosystems to maintain our competitive edge.Product Positioning & Value Proposition
Develop clear product positioning against competitive solutions, articulating our advantages in measurement, automation, cost of test (COT) and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)Establish value-based pricing models and ROI calculators that demonstrate yield optimization and test-time reductions to customer executives.Synthesize highly complex technical specifications (e.g., sub-micron optical alignment speeds, multi-band wavelength testing and parallel test) into differentiated value propositions.Go-to-Market & Growth Strategy
Define and execute a 3-to-5-year global growth strategy for our photonics product portfolio to increase market share in high-volume manufacturing (HVM) environments.Architect comprehensive Go-to-Market (GTM) campaigns for automated wafer-probe and final-test optical test solutions, ensuring alignment across sales, applications and marketing.Identify and quantify emerging test and assembly use cases (e.g., multiple test insertions for co-packaged optics, laser-on-wafer integration, and 2.5D/3D hybrid bonding) to anticipate evolving electrical and optical wafer test requirements.Ecosystem & Sales Enablement
Champion cross-functional collaboration between Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Operations to ensure market success.Build and nurture strategic technical marketing partnerships with leading technology companies, component foundries, and eco system partners.Create technical marketing collateral, whitepapers, application notes, and competitive matrixes to optimize global sales enablement.Represent the company as a thought leader at key international industry forums (e.g., ECOC, OFC, SPIE Photonics West, and SEMICON).
