Sr. Staff Technical Marketing Analyst (Remote)

Seagate Technology•Longmont, CO

112d•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Sr. Staff Technical Marketing Analyst with deep hard disk drive (HDD) technology and manufacturing expertise to support the Technical Marketing organization. This role requires a first-principles understanding of HDD architecture, physics, component functions, and system-level behavior, combined with strong analytical, modeling, and communication skills. The position operates at the intersection of HDD technology development, manufacturing operations, product strategy, finance, and commercial teams. The successful candidate will translate technology choices, manufacturing realities, and cost structures into clear, defensible insights that inform product roadmaps, competitive positioning, pricing analysis and investment decisions. This role is expected to bring unique technical insight that materially strengthens business, pricing, marketing, competitive, and portfolio analysis, particularly at senior and executive decision levels.

Requirements

Extensive experience in roles involving technical modeling, systems analysis, or technology strategy.
Deep understanding of HDD architecture, physics, and manufacturing processes.
Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with experience building and maintaining structured models.
Strong understanding of the HDD competitive marketplace and must be able to translate understanding into competitive market and cost/value competitiveness.
Maintain and improve upon a competitive cost analysis model and perform scenario analysis
Ability to work effectively with ambiguous requirements and incomplete data.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to senior stakeholders or external customers
Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across a variety of technical and business organizations, including engineering, operations, sourcing, marketing, finance, and sales.
Experience working directly in storage industry/devices, hardware platforms, infrastructure systems, or large-scale technology deployments.
Familiarity with storage market system total cost of ownership analysis
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Applied Sciences, Operations Research, or equivalent expereince.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain quantitative models grounded in HDD architecture, physics, component behavior, and system-level interactions.
Ensure models reflect cost estimates, sourcing implications, technology constraints, engineering tolerances, and manufacturing flows from sourced components to final assembly and shipment.
Create forecasts including nominal expectations, sensitivities, and scenario analysis tied to real HDD market, customer, design, and factory assumptions.
Provide insight into how technology choices affect factory throughput, scrap, bottlenecks, test coverage, and long-term cost efficiency.
Build bottom-up HDD cost models with component-level detail across mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and production elements.
Coordinate competitive cost teardown, cost modeling and scenario analysis as a core responsibility.
Interpret industry HDD technology differences and articulate resulting cost, performance, sourcing, and market advantages.
Partner with business pricing teams, and portfolio owners to provide technical insight that enhances business and competitive analysis.
Translate analytical outputs into actionable inputs for roadmaps, pricing strategy, warranty, and customer discussions.
Drive data-backed discussions with engineering, operations, manufacturing, and technology strategy teams.
Influence decisions through technical credibility and data-driven insight.
Maintain transparent, well-documented models and assumptions.
Establish scalable analytical frameworks to support long-term decision making.