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

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for building from the ground up.
• Strategic thinker who is equally comfortable executing day-to-day marketing activities.
• Exceptional storyteller capable of simplifying complex technologies.
• Strong cross-functional collaborator who builds trusted relationships across engineering and executive leadership.
• Curious, creative, and driven to continuously improve.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Passion for innovation and emerging AI technologies.