About the Role
KLA's LS-SWIFT division is seeking a Product Marketing professional to direct the development of market requirements, product strategy, and business plans for their patterned wafer inspection systems. This role involves market research, competitive analysis, and defining pricing strategies to ensure market leadership and customer success in semiconductor manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Direct the development of company market requirements for specific product(s) or product line(s), including product strategy definition, requirements analysis, and pricing.
- Monitor the development of business plans, managing lifecycles, and product positioning in the marketplace.
- Reduce broad concepts and business strategies into structured product marketing plans.
- Oversee market research, monitor competitive activity, and identify customer needs.
- Establish pricing strategies.
- Interact with engineering, manufacturing, and sales to enhance existing product(s) or product line(s).
- Lead new product definition and business plans with joint departments.
- Select, develop, and evaluate personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
- Works on issues of diverse scope where requires some level of analysis.
- Collect data on a variety of factors, including market trends, customer information, competition and environmental information, in order to support or provide input on the company strategies or policies.
- Execute strategies and support sales channel for a region or a customer.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in Product Marketing, Product Management, Business Development, or a related role within the semiconductor technology industry.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills with the ability to translate market insights into business actions.
- Demonstrated experience in product lifecycle management, market analysis, and business planning.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
- Ability to work effectively across global, cross-functional teams.
- Employees matched to this job family should have responsibility for managing people in addition to product responsibility.
Skills
- Product Marketing
- Product Management
- Business Development
- Semiconductor Technology
- Analytical Thinking
- Strategic Thinking
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Market Analysis
- Business Planning
- Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Presentation Skills
Location
- US
- India
- Singapore
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Management
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
Benefits
- Competitive, family friendly total rewards package
- Benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees
About the Company
- KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem.
- Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using KLA's technologies.
- KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays.
- KLA focuses more than average on innovation and invests 15% of sales back into R&D.
- Expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices.
- With over 40 years of semiconductor process control experience, chipmakers around the globe rely on KLA to ensure that their fabs ramp next-generation devices to volume production quickly and cost-effectively.
- The LS-SWIFT Division of KLA’s Global Products Group provides patterned wafer inspection systems for high-volume semiconductor manufacturing.
- Its mission is to deliver market-leading cost of ownership in defect detection for a broad range of applications in the production of semiconductors.
- LS (Laser Scanning) systems enable cost-effective patterned wafer defect detection for the industry’s most sophisticated process technologies deployed in leading-edge foundry, logic, DRAM, and NAND fabs.
- SWIFT (Simultaneous Wafer Inspection at Fast Throughput) systems deliver all-wafer-surface (frontside, backside, and edge) macro inspection that is critical for automotive IC, MEMS, and advanced packaging processes as well as foundry/logic and memory fabs.
- LS-SWIFT operates from a global footprint that includes the US, Singapore, India and Germany, and serves a worldwide customer base across Asia, Europe and North America.
- The LS-SWIFT division has the mission to provide cost-effective solutions for high-sampling wafer inspection applications.
- We effectively partner with field support teams and customers to lower overall fab costs by supplying world-leading high-throughput inspection, metrology and review systems.
- Our comprehensive product portfolio includes: all-wafer-surface (frontside, backside, and edge) macro inspection, standalone high-sampling inspection, and standalone edge inspection and metrology tools that are deployed across several advanced wafer fabs for a large number of applications.
- Besides developing valuable products, the LS-SWIFT division provides support to the customers to achieve performance entitlement through the sharing and implementation of applications BKM (Best Known Methods).
Equal Opportunity
- KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other other benefits and privileges of employment.
