5051 Technical Marketing Fellow

Responsibilities

• Define long-range technology and market perspectives for enterprise storage, cloud object storage, AI data infrastructure, and next-generation data-center architectures.
• Assess industry inflection points, customer workload evolution, competitive offerings, and emerging technologies; convert insights into actionable business and product recommendations.
• Advise executive leadership on technology investments, partnerships, acquisition opportunities, and portfolio priorities.
• Represent the company at conferences, standards and ecosystem forums, Market analyst briefings, and executive customer events.
• Partner with Japan Engineering and Marketing to shape multi-year HDD roadmaps and enabling technologies.
• Translate hyperscale, OEM, and enterprise requirements into product architecture, feature priorities, performance targets, and differentiated value propositions.
• Develop solution-level positioning that connects device capabilities with workload, system architecture, economics, reliability, and sustainability outcomes.
• Align roadmap and technology messaging across Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Finance, Investor Relations, and executive leadership.
• Serve as a senior technical liaison to cloud service providers, hyperscale operators, OEMs, and strategic enterprise customers.
• Build trusted relationships with CTOs, architects, engineering executives, and infrastructure decision makers.

Requirements

• BS Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline; advanced degree or MBA preferred.
• 20+ years of progressive experience in enterprise storage, cloud infrastructure, semiconductors, data-center systems, or adjacent technology markets.
• Demonstrated expertise in enterprise storage systems, cloud object storage, HDD and SSD technologies, hardware/software architecture, and data-center infrastructure.
• Proven success defining technology strategy and multi-year roadmaps and influencing products from concept through market introduction and volume deployment.
• Experience engaging hyperscale cloud providers, cloud service providers, OEMs, and enterprise customers at architect and executive levels.
• Strong record of cross-functional leadership across Engineering, Product Management, Sales, Marketing, and executive teams.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and executive presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts as clear business value.
• Experience leading or contributing to innovation, patents, architecture reviews, partnerships, or M&A technical due diligence.

Preferred

• Cloud-native and object-storage platforms, distributed systems, exabyte-scale architectures, and workload-based infrastructure design.
• HDD, SSD, ASIC/SoC technologies, firmware, software stacks, reliability, and system-level performance.
• AI infrastructure and data pipelines, including capacity, performance, data lifecycle, and cost implications for storage architecture.
• Competitive analysis, market segmentation, total-cost-of-ownership modeling, product positioning, and technical go-to-market strategy.
• Experience working with senior engineers, architects, technologists, or small high-impact strategy teams.
• Stronger executive relationships and measurable progress with strategic cloud, hyperscale, OEM, and enterprise accounts.
• Improved field readiness and customer confidence through high-quality technical content, proof points, and architecture guidance.
• Business impact from strategic design-ins, partnerships, market-development initiatives, and portfolio recommendations.
• Expanded industry visibility, technical credibility, innovation output, and intellectual-property contribution.