5051 Technical Marketing Fellow

Toshiba America Electronic Components•Chicago, IL

About The Position

The Technical Marketing Fellow is a senior technology and market leader who connects deep storage and infrastructure expertise with HDD product strategy, customer engagement, and go-to-market execution. The role defines and communicates the company’s technology vision across enterprise storage, cloud object storage, AI data infrastructure, HDD and SSD platforms, and emerging data-center architecture. It serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, engineering, product management, sales, strategic customers, and industry stakeholders, translating market and customer requirements into differentiated roadmaps, solution positioning, and business opportunities. The role influences across multiple organizations and represents the company as a technical thought leader. The Fellow defines long-range technology and market perspectives; assesses industry shifts, customer workloads, competitive offerings, and emerging technologies; and advises executive leadership on investments, partnerships, acquisition opportunities, and portfolio priorities. The role partners with Japan Engineering and Marketing on multi-year HDD roadmaps, translates customer requirements into product priorities and value propositions, and aligns technology messaging across internal teams. The role serves as a senior technical liaison to cloud service providers, hyperscale operators, OEMs, and enterprise customers; leads executive-level discussions about future workloads and infrastructure; and partners with Sales and Business Development on strategic opportunities and customer growth. It also creates technical and executive marketing content, enables customer-facing teams, and supports launches and market-development programs with evidence-based technical messaging.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
20+ years of progressive experience in enterprise storage, cloud infrastructure, semiconductors, data-center systems, or adjacent technology markets.
Demonstrated expertise in enterprise storage systems, cloud object storage, HDD and SSD technologies, hardware/software architecture, and data-center infrastructure.
Proven success defining technology strategy and multi-year roadmaps and influencing products from concept through market introduction and volume deployment.
Experience engaging hyperscale cloud providers, cloud service providers, OEMs, and enterprise customers at architect and executive levels.
Strong record of cross-functional leadership across Engineering, Product Management, Sales, Marketing, and executive teams.
Exceptional written, verbal, and executive presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical concepts as clear business value.
Experience leading or contributing to innovation, patents, architecture reviews, partnerships, or M&A technical due diligence.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree or MBA.
Expertise in cloud-native and object-storage platforms, distributed systems, exabyte-scale architectures, and workload-based infrastructure design.
Expertise in HDD, SSD, ASIC/SoC technologies, firmware, software stacks, reliability, and system-level performance.
Knowledge of AI infrastructure and data pipelines, including capacity, performance, data lifecycle, and storage-architecture cost implications.
Experience with competitive analysis, market segmentation, total-cost-of-ownership modeling, product positioning, and technical go-to-market strategy.
Experience working with senior engineers, architects, technologists, or small high-impact strategy teams.

Responsibilities

Define long-range technology and market perspectives for enterprise storage, cloud object storage, AI data infrastructure, and next-generation data-center architectures.
Assess industry inflection points, customer workload evolution, competitive offerings, and emerging technologies, and turn insights into business and product recommendations.
Advise executive leadership on technology investments, partnerships, acquisition opportunities, and portfolio priorities.
Represent the company at conferences, standards and ecosystem forums, market analyst briefings, and executive customer events.
Partner with Japan Engineering and Marketing to shape multi-year HDD roadmaps and enabling technologies.
Translate hyperscale, OEM, and enterprise requirements into product architecture, feature priorities, performance targets, and differentiated value propositions.
Develop solution positioning connecting device capabilities with workload, system architecture, economics, reliability, and sustainability outcomes.
Align roadmap and technology messaging across Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Finance, Investor Relations, and executive leadership.
Serve as a senior technical liaison to cloud service providers, hyperscale operators, OEMs, and strategic enterprise customers.
Build trusted relationships with CTOs, architects, engineering executives, and infrastructure decision makers.
Lead executive-level discussions on future workloads, cloud and object-storage architectures, AI data pipelines, and infrastructure requirements.
Partner with Sales and Business Development to accelerate strategic opportunities, design-ins, solution adoption, and long-term account growth.
Create executive presentations, technical briefs, white papers, competitive assessments, solution guides, keynote content, and field-enablement materials.
Translate complex technologies into clear, evidence-based messaging for technical and business audiences without overstating claims.
Enable sales and customer-facing teams with competitive positioning, architecture guidance, use cases, and objection handling.
Support product launches and market-development programs with credible technical proof points and customer-relevant narratives.