Chief Commercial Officer (Xora Portfolio Company)

Xora Innovation • San Jose, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

We are a Silicon Valley, San Jose based stealth start-up looking for a passionate, ambitious individual who shares our vision of next-generation disruptive memory solutions for Agentic AI inference and high-performance data center computing applications. This is an impactful and senior leadership role allowing you to mastermind the realization of our strategic ambitions and shape the direction of our product portfolio development. This is an executive role responsible for all market-facing, partnership definition, revenue-generating, and customer-alignment functions to plan and execute the introduction and enterprise growth strategy of our disruptive product, which is a purpose-built memory for AI inference computing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or Finance.
• 15+ years in the semiconductor or memory products industry.
• At least 5–7 years in an executive commercial, VP of Sales, or general management capacity.
• Proven history of scaling multi-hundred-million-dollar revenue streams.
• Proven history of negotiating complex enterprise/supplier contracts.
• Proven history of navigating cyclical market downturns and upturns.
• Deep understanding of semiconductor fabrication economics.
• Deep understanding of memory specifications and AI computing needs.
• Deep understanding of supplier qualification cycles.
• Deep understanding of supply chain constraints.

Nice To Haves

• An MBA or advanced technical degree is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define market positioning for AI inference computing applications best suited to our inference memory, and identify associated data center cloud service providers (CSPs), semiconductor SOC markets, and enterprises to pursue.
• Strategize, build, and oversee strategic partner (demand and supply) alliances to realize the commercial vision of the company.
• Collaborate closely with R&D, product engineering, and operations to feed customer demand signals back into next-gen memory architecture and density plans.
• Lead commercial launch strategies for new memory products, coordinating marketing, engineering samples/prototype qualification, and design-in wins.
• Build and direct global sales teams handling high-value enterprise and hyperscale customers with long technical design-in cycles.
• Partner with peer executives to build accurate product launch and revenue forecasts, influence product lifecycle track P&L performance, and provide relevant and impactful reports to the board on the commercial strategy and performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive