Director of Product Marketing – Coherent DSP & Optical Networking
USA (Remote)
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Job Summary
Own and drive Celero's market strategy from corporate branding to securing early adopter design wins, while shaping the product roadmap, pricing, messaging, and cross‑functional execution across engineering, sales, and R&D.
- Own the corporate strategy and brand initiatives.
- Lead product roadmapping and GTM planning.
- Secure anchor customer design wins and influence long-term roadmap.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Corporate Strategy Support: Execute Celero's overall marketing strategy to support corporate growth, product adoption, and brand awareness.
- Strategic Roadmapping: Define the multi-year vision, business cases, and product roadmap based on market data and ROI.
- Commercialization: Develop pricing strategies, margin targets, value propositions, and go-to-market (GTM) plans.
- Product Positioning & Messaging: Translate complex DSP architecture into high-impact value propositions for engineering executives and architects. Translate Hyperscaler networking requirements into DSP performance specifications and feature set.
- Market & Competitor Analysis: Continuously analyze customer needs, market trends, and competitor offerings to identify product gaps and opportunities for differentiation.
- Early Adopter Funnel: Partner closely with executive leadership and sales to identify, pitch, and secure critical early-stage design wins with Hyperscalers and module makers.
- Inbound Market Intelligence: Act as the strategic filter for R&D. Gather customer/end user/ecosystem feedback and competitive intelligence to shape our silicon development and future roadmap.
- Ecosystem Marketing: Drive marketing initiatives around our DSP (reference clock, DRV/TIA, MZM, tester, etc.) to enable competitive commercial modular solutions.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner closely with engineering, design, supply chain, and sales teams to ensure products are built to spec and delivered on time.
- Startup Agility & Execution: Own the full marketing stack from high-level positioning to execution. Work with internal team to create sales toolkits, product briefs, application notes, and competitor teardowns from scratch.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical communications or a related technical field.
- Experience: 15+ years of experience in product marketing, technical marketing, or business development specifically within the coherent DSP and optical networking
- Technical Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of DSP architectures, signal processing algorithms and optical module ecosystems
- Startup Mindset with self-motivation: Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment. Self-starter who can execute with limited infrastructure.
- Global Exposure: Experience managing product launches or customer engagements globally
- Communication: Masterful ability to synthesize complex networking architectural concepts into clear, high-density business solutions. Ability to work independently with minimal direction while collaborating across engineering, executive leadership, sales and operations
Preferred
- Semiconductor marketing
- Optical networking
- Coherent DSP technologies
- High-speed interconnects
- Optical modules
- Hyperscale cloud infrastructure
Celero Communications develops advanced coherent DSP solutions that enable high-bandwidth, low-power optical connectivity for AI infrastructure. Founded in 2024 by industry leaders from Marvell, Inphi, Broadcom, and ClariPhy, Celero combines deep expertise in analog design, digital signal processing, and system architecture to redefine how data centers connect and scale across large AI networks. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California, with design centers in Canada and Argentina.
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Funding History
- Nov 2025Series B • $100M
- Dec 2024Series A • $30M
- Apr 2024Seed • $8.4M









