Director of Marketing

Job Description
Renesas is seeking a Product Management Director or Sr. Director for its High-Performance System Power product line. These push the technology limits of speed, density, and efficiency and deliver power to the highest performance computing and connectivity functions. Typical applications include Artificial Intelligence, High Performance Networking, and other High Performance Computing applications. This role sits within our Performance Power Solutions business, which is one of the fastest-growing and exciting product lines at Renesas, with a multi-market scope and a large product development team.
This position can be located in any one of our main offices in the central or western US, preferably Austin, Dallas, Phoenix.
We are looking for a leader to define and lead the team building out our product strategy and portfolio, to grow and expand the business, and manage the products throughout their lifecycles.  This role offers the opportunity to build a highly strategic and visible product portfolio working closely with the largest global Cloud Service Providers and CPU/GPU ecosystem enablers.
The scope of responsibilities include:
Overall business leader for the product line, with P&L responsibility
Defining a product line vision, strategy, portfolio and roadmap within the targeted application spaces
Scaling and developing the business and engineering teams supporting the product line
Preparing business plans for new product concepts and proposals
Promoting new and existing products to the market
Managing pricing and quotations for strategic opportunities
Managing products throughout the entire product lifecycle
 
A successful candidate will be detail oriented, self-motivated, and work with a sense of urgency. The candidate must also possess excellent interpersonal skills and be able to lead and/or influence multi-disciplinary  organizations such as Product Management, Applications Engineering, IC Development Engineering, and Field Sales.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 
This position has a broad range of responsibilities related to driving new product development and revenue growth:
 
Recruit, hire and train product managers, product definers, and product applications engineering leaders and individual contributors
Build, lead, and scale a global team supporting this product line
Develop product and market strategy to grow each product family to a self-supporting and financially accretive profit center
Prepare new product proposals and drive a healthy product roadmap, including market requirements and business plans for new products
Provide prioritization on features, cost, and schedule trade-offs to product development teams as they develop and launch products 
Drive new product development activities, identifying critical issues and working with Applications Engineering, Design Engineering and Product Engineering to solve them;
Provide timely responses to inquiries from customers and field teams regarding products, pricing, and other information;
Work with the sales and business planning teams to drive to financial targets for the product line;
Develop material for new product “go to market” activities including marketing campaigns, product promotion material, and other sales collateral;
Develop and deliver training to the sales and FAE teams;
Present Renesas solutions at industry conferences and trade shows; and
Create journal articles, whitepapers, and other published material.
 
YOU ARE BEST EQUIPPED FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU ARE
 
Experienced in the field of power management IC design engineering, application engineering or product marketing;
Have led product management functions and teams supporting $50M in annual revenues or more, or have started and scaled a product line to a similar level
Strongly self-driven and self-motivated, and capable of taking full ownership of your activities;
Comfortable with multi-tasking;
A fast learner on new technologies, new applications, and new products;
Comfortable presenting to audiences of different background;
Capable of communicating with a broad audience;
Can travel domestically and internationally as the business needs dictate, typically 30% with higher periods.