Product Marketing Manager – Product Manager

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Listing Info

Requisition Number: 12-9325
Job Title: Product Marketing Manager – Product Manager
Country: USA

State/Province/County: California

City: Milpitas

Requirements/Qualifications (Education): BS EE or CS required; MS, MBA preferred

  • Minimum 10 years marketing experience with direct industry experience
  • Minimum 3 years in a similar role of product management or strategic marketing
  • Broad knowledge of semiconductors, semiconductor packaging, system design, storage, and computer architecture

  • Job Description

    This is an exciting opportunity with our new Flash Components Division that was formed by the recent LSI acquisition of SandForce the leading provider of flash storage processors for enterprise, cloud and client flash solutions and solid state drives (SSDs)

    The Product Marketing Manager – Product Manager will be assigned a product, products or elements of a product to define market requirements, negotiate plan of record for delivering capabilities with engineering, collect and collate requirements from across the customer base working directly with customers and with account managers and salespeople, define skus and go to market strategies, and pricing strategies for the product line. Products can include Firmware, Software, Drivers, Reference Designs, Tools, and Full Solutions. The Product Manager may also have responsibility to manage partnerships with key suppliers or ecosystem partners as necessary to drive the success of their products.

    Personal Characteristics

  • Highly Motivated Self-Starter
  • Good Communication Skills
  • Good Negotiation Skills
  • Ability to document and specify technical requirements
  • Problem Solver
  • Ability to manage complex issues
  • Detail Oriented

  • Technical Skills

  • In depth knowledge of Solid State Drive market and Technology
  • In depth knowledge of client PC market and Technology
  • Good knowledge of NAND Flash Memory market and Technology
  • In depth knowledge of Storage protocols, SATA, AHCI, PCIe, NVMe

  • Key Responsibilities

  • Coordinate firmware feature development and prioritization with engineering
  • Manage prioritization of feature and product development for assigned product lines
  • Support account managers and sales with training and collateral for assigned products
  • Forecast and understand market opportunities, present opportunities to management
  • Develop pricing strategies for assigned products
  • Analyze and present information to executive staff, sales and marketing on the competitive landscape
  • Present to customers on the technical capabilities of our products and value of working with LSI
  • Develop value propositions to drive success with assigned products
  • Prepare status updates on product development status across the company
  • Develop support and roll out strategies for new product introductions


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