Director, Photonics Product Marketing
About The Position
GlobalFoundries is seeking a Director of Product Marketing to lead market strategy, positioning, and go-to-market execution for its photonics product line within the Wafer product organization. The role defines and champions the market perspective for silicon photonics and photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technologies, translating customer and market needs into differentiated technology and product roadmap priorities in partnership with Product Management, Engineering, and Business Development. The Director also works with Sales and Business Development to support deal closure and owns pricing for silicon photonics customers. The successful candidate brings knowledge of the photonics and optical interconnect markets, strong product marketing expertise, and the ability to develop compelling positioning and messaging. The role engages directly with customers, industry analysts, and internal executive stakeholders. It begins as an individual-contributor position, with an expectation to establish a small team and hire one to two direct reports within approximately six months as the function grows. The position will shape market understanding and adoption of GF's photonics product line and support the growth strategy for Advanced Connectivity's Wafer product organization. It will translate customer and market needs into product direction and represent GF's photonics capabilities externally. GlobalFoundries is an equal opportunity employer and states that offers are subject to applicable pre-employment checks and conditions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Business, or a related field.
- At least 10 years of experience in product marketing, technical marketing, or product management in the semiconductor or optical/photonics industry.
- Technical understanding of silicon photonics, optical interconnect, or related semiconductor packaging and integration technologies sufficient to engage credibly with engineering and customer technical teams.
- Demonstrated experience developing market positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategy for a technical product line.
- Experience engaging directly with customers, including technical and executive stakeholders, in a marketing or business-facing capacity.
- Excellent written, verbal, and executive presentation skills.
- Ability to work cross-functionally across engineering, product management, sales, and business development.
- Willingness and readiness to move into a people manager role within the first six months, including hiring and developing one to two direct reports.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or advanced technical degree.
- Prior people management experience.
- Experience in silicon photonics, optical engines, co-packaged optics, or high-speed interconnect markets.
- Experience supporting hyperscale, AI infrastructure, or datacenter networking customers.
- Track record of building a product marketing function or team from an early stage.
- Familiarity with semiconductor foundry, OSAT, or IDM business models and customer engagement patterns.
- Experience presenting at industry conferences or engaging with industry analysts such as Gartner, Yole, or LightCounting.
Responsibilities
- Define and own product marketing strategy for the photonics product line, including market segmentation, competitive positioning, and value proposition development.
- Monitor the competitive landscape across silicon photonics, optical interconnect, and co-packaged optics, and turn findings into actionable positioning.
- Partner with Product Management to align market requirements, pricing strategy, and product roadmap priorities.
- Develop messaging, collateral, and launch plans for new photonics products and technology milestones.
- Work with Business Development and Sales on customer engagements, RFPs, and technical marketing throughout the sales cycle.
- Represent GF's photonics roadmap and capabilities at industry conferences, customer briefings, and analyst engagements.
- Engage customers in hyperscale, AI infrastructure, networking, and datacenter markets to understand requirements and validate roadmap direction.
- Build and maintain relationships with industry analysts, standards bodies, and relevant ecosystem partners.
- Synthesize market intelligence, customer feedback, and competitive data into regular reporting for product and executive leadership.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, Business Development, and Communications to maintain a unified market narrative.
- Represent product marketing in executive roadmap reviews, business planning, and strategic investment discussions.
- Establish the product marketing function, initially as an individual contributor, and hire and develop one to two direct reports as the function scales.
- Own pricing for silicon photonics customers.
- Support compliance with internal policies and legal regulations, and follow Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.
- Perform other projects or assignments as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
