Engineer I - Product Marketing

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Job Description:

• Help develop products, technology, and IP roadmaps and strategies to support business unit growth in the Aerospace and Defense market.
• Own the product from an idea to a successful release, with a competitive value proposition and in close cooperation with application engineering and R&D teams.
• Lead the whole product creation cycle from product idea, through specification definition, business case preparation, tracking of project activities and assist product manager with go-to-market launch plans.
• Initiate innovative ideas or projects to drive segment strategy and lead the project execution to achieve tangible results.
• Conduct effective and comprehensive customer research to understand market size and opportunity, technical requirements, and the competitive landscape. Deliver those data-driven insights as inputs into the product roadmap to drive business unit growth. When necessary, present a summary to the leadership team.
• Work with applications engineering to translate customer needs into use case and technical requirements for R&D.
• Work closely with product management team to develop and deliver marketing collateral including competitive positioning, product updates, sales training, webinars, white papers, etc.
• Act as business development interface when required and consult with our customers in the selection of products, and/or design support by deploying application engineering resources as required.
• Drive cross business line and cross division cooperation and alignment, when necessary, on projects.
• Approximately 10% of travel time to provide on-site customer meetings and/or support conferences/exhibits.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• New college graduate with a BSEE or equivalent technical degree.
• Academic experience in the field of power electronics, analog circuits, and discrete components.
• Technical aptitude as well as business acumen. Skilled at dealing with ambiguity in early product lifecycle.
• Team player with an ability to work collaboratively across geographies and functions.
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, dynamic, and strong focus on delivering results to plan.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage customers/stakeholders at all levels from executive to engineering.
• Able to motivate and excite people to influence customers and internal stakeholders.

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