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As an early-stage leader in our high-growth startup, you will have a massive impact on our trajectory. You will bridge advanced chip design with global market adoption, turning our technical architecture into compelling commercial solutions. Reporting directly to the VP of Marketing, this role requires a strategic thinker who is equally comfortable rolling up their sleeves to draft technical whitepapers, launch global campaigns, and secure anchor customer design wins.\nKey Responsibilities\nCorporate Strategy Support: Execute Celero's overall marketing strategy to support corporate growth, product adoption, and brand awareness.\nStrategic Roadmapping: Define the multi-year vision, business cases, and product roadmap based on market data and ROI.\n Commercialization: Develop pricing strategies, margin targets, value propositions, and go-to-market (GTM) plans.\nProduct Positioning & Messaging: Translate complex DSP architecture into high-impact value propositions for engineering executives and architects. Translate Hyperscaler networking requirements into DSP performance specifications and feature set.\nMarket & Competitor Analysis: Continuously analyze customer needs, market trends, and competitor offerings to identify product gaps and opportunities for differentiation.\nEarly Adopter Funnel: Partner closely with executive leadership and sales to identify, pitch, and secure critical early-stage design wins with Hyperscalers and module makers.\nInbound Market Intelligence: Act as the strategic filter for R&D. Gather customer/end user/ecosystem feedback and competitive intelligence to shape our silicon development and future roadmap.\n Ecosystem Marketing: Drive marketing initiatives around our DSP (reference clock, DRV/TIA, MZM, tester, etc.) to enable competitive commercial modular solutions.\nCross-Functional Leadership: Partner closely with engineering, design, supply chain, and sales teams to ensure products are built to spec and delivered on time.\nStartup Agility & Execution: Own the full marketing stack from high-level positioning to execution. Work with internal team to create sales toolkits, product briefs, application notes, and competitor teardowns from scratch.\nWhat You Will Bring: \nEducation: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical communications or a related technical field.\nExperience: 15+ years of experience in product marketing, technical marketing, or business development specifically within the coherent DSP and optical networking\nTechnical Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of DSP architectures, signal processing algorithms and optical module ecosystems\nStartup Mindset with self-motivation: Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment. Self-starter who can execute with limited infrastructure.\nGlobal Exposure: Experience managing product launches or customer engagements globally\nCommunication: Masterful ability to synthesize complex networking architectural concepts into clear, high-density business solutions. Ability to work independently with minimal direction while collaborating across engineering, executive leadership, sales and operations\nPreferred Experience:\nExperience with one or more of the following:\nSemiconductor marketing\nOptical networking\nCoherent DSP technologies\nHigh-speed interconnects\nOptical modules\nHyperscale cloud infrastructure\nWhat Makes You Successful:\nEntrepreneurial mindset with a passion for building from the ground up.\nStrategic thinker who is equally comfortable executing day-to-day marketing activities.\nExceptional storyteller capable of simplifying complex technologies.\nStrong cross-functional collaborator who builds trusted relationships across engineering and executive leadership.\nCurious, creative, and driven to continuously improve.\nComfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced startup environment.\nPassionate about innovation and emerging AI technologies.\nWhy Join Celero?\nAt Celero, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of AI infrastructure while helping build one of the industry's next great semiconductor companies. 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