5046 Senior Marketing Manager - Industry Standards
San Jose, CA (On-site)
Posted 2 months ago
Job Description
A senior technical leader responsible for representing the company in international industry standards organizations, driving cross-company alignment, and translating evolving standards into actionable products and roadmap guidance. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership, facilitation, and executive communication skills.
Key Responsibilities
Industry Standards Leadership
- Represent the company in global industry standards bodies across storage protocols, security, and system interoperability. Typical groups include ATA, SCSI, OCP, SNIA, TCG, NVMe, IEEE.
- Serve in leadership roles, including chairing plenary sessions and working-group meetings.
- Develop, review, and present technical proposals, standards contributions, and meeting agendas to multi-vendor audiences.
- Ensure compliance with organizational governance, procedural, and antitrust requirements during all standards engagements.
- Act as the primary liaison with standards organizations, managing ballots, reviews, and multi-cycle deliverables.
- Attend & participate in committee activities in person as needed. Expected travel is approximately 1 week per month.
- Manage Toshiba membership roster, annual dues payment in relevant standards bodies
- Lead internal alignment and coordinate company feedback on draft specifications across multiple standards ecosystems.
- Evaluate the technical impact of proposed changes on command sets, device behavior, and system-level requirements.
- Clearly communicate risks, trade-offs, and implementation considerations to both internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Track specification evolution, ensuring continuity across revisions, open issues, and long-term development cycles.
- Facilitate technical discussions across multiple companies, geographies, and engineering disciplines to drive consensus.
- Coordinate internally across Japan product planning, R&D, firmware, architecture, legal, and business teams to ensure consistent technical positions.
- Organize agendas, action items, and follow-ups for complex, multi-party engagements.
- Translate detailed technical discussions into concise executive-level summaries with clear decisions and next steps.
- Define and maintain industry standards strategy aligned with product roadmaps and long-term business objectives.
- Ensure adherence to corporate governance, approval processes, and compliance requirements in all external engagements.
- Manage long-running initiatives and action items across multiple standards groups, ensuring accountability and progress tracking.
- Deep expertise in storage systems, hardware, protocols, and interoperability standards
- Proven leadership in multi-company, standards-driven environments
- Strong ability to influence and build consensus across competing stakeholders
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentations
- Ability to balance technical depth with strategic business and organizational considerations
- Experience operating effectively in global, cross-cultural environments
- Shapes industry standards that directly influence product design and market direction
- Positions the company as a thought leader in key technology ecosystems
- Ensures alignment between emerging standards and internal product strategy
- Enables successful multi-vendor interoperability and customer adoption
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc
Toshiba creates intelligent technology with purpose, turning real world challenges into solutions that drive the devices and systems shaping the future. As a global innovator in semiconductors and storage solutions, we collaborate with our customers to design products that drive performance, reliability, and meaningful impact. Our solutions power innovation across the world’s most demanding and high-growth technology sectors. Beyond cutting-edge products, Toshiba delivers lasting value through longevity, durability, and decades of proven expertise. Together with our customers we combine innovation with partnership to achieve success today and prepare for the opportunities of tomorrow.
Salaries
Posted range
$156K/yr – $250K/yr
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5046 Senior Marketing Manager - Industry Standards
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. · San Jose, CA · On-site
