Director of Technical Marketing

<strong>Pliops' team includes experts with extensive knowledge and experience in NAND flash, SSDs, databases and storage systems. We are focused on delivering disruptive innovation to support new levels of data scaling.</strong>

San Jose, CA

PLIOPS

<strong>Pliops was founded in 2017 by flash storage industry veterans from Samsung, M-Systems and XtremIO. Pliops is creating a new category of product that enables cloud and enterprise data centers to access data up to 50X faster with 1/10th of the computational load and power consumption. Its technology collapses multiple inefficient layers into one ultra-fast device based on a groundbreaking patent-pending approach.</strong><br /><br /><strong>Pliops&rsquo; solution solves the scalability challenges raised by the cloud data explosion and the increasing data requirements of AI and ML applications.</strong> https://pliops.com/

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Full-Time

Comprehensive Compensation and Benefits Package

Overview: <strong>About Pliops</strong><br />Pliops enables cloud and enterprise customers to access data up to one hundred times faster, using just a fraction of the computational load and power consumption that are required by conventional technology. This means that companies can capitalize on the massive growth of applications and data. Pliops technology takes workload performance and scalability to new levels and achieves superior ROI. Our technology paves the way for data-intensive applications such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, blockchain, and Bitcoin.<br /><br />The company just demonstrated its first-generation product accelerating MySQL workloads to 7x the level of software alone while reducing data management traffic to just 10% of what it would be with software. That saves compute resources, memory, and network bandwidth, and helps cloud infrastructure teams get more value from their SSD storage investment by reducing the overprovisioning for performance and endurance that is common today.<br /><br />Pliops was founded in 2017 by flash storage industry veterans from Samsung, M-Systems, and XtremIO. The company has raised a total of $40M from Softbank, Intel Capital, State of Mind Ventures, Viola Ventures, Western Digital Capital, Xilinx.<br /><br /><strong>About the Role:</strong><br />We are seeking a Director of Technical Marketing with a proven record of developing deep technical customer/partner engagements in the field of databases or storage. In this role, you will be driving Pliops business growth by creating and delivering technical engagements leading to revenue and the required supporting content for customers and partners.
Responsibilities: <ul> <li>Lead technical assessment of new segments and solutions</li> <li>Drive business development via engineering and architecture contacts at customers/partners</li> <li>Exercise creativity in identifying pain points and potential Pliops-based solutions at customers and partners</li> <li>Assist product manager to set technical requirements in MRD, working with customers/partners</li> <li>Primary customer/partner contact for all technical questions and requirements</li> <li>Lead efforts to complete requirements for 3rd party approved vendor/hardware lists, based on priority list defined by Segment Planning</li> <li>Define requirements for customer technical collateral</li> <li>Create technical customer collateral in cooperation with Engineering &amp; Architecture (should manage majority of work on this)</li> <li>First line of support on customer evaluations, qualifications and field/integration issues on production shipments</li> <li>Create demos and support benchmarking efforts</li> <li>Support benchmark efforts by 3rd parties, in conjunction with Product Marketing</li> </ul> <strong>Deliverables:</strong><br /> <ul> <li>Technical assessments of new segments and solutions</li> <li>Define technical requirements in MRD</li> <li>Set requirements and lead creation of technical collateral</li> <li>Create and manage benchmark plan</li> <li>Support customers through technical requirements of evaluation and ramp of product</li> <li>Assist with business development through network and new outreach efforts</li> </ul>
Requirements: <ul> <li>Previous technical background in customer solution development or architect roles</li> <li>Hands-on experience in a technical customer-facing activities: solutions selling, demos, support</li> <li>Experience in Cloud Computing, Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Cassandra or other NoSQL DBs, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Docker, Mesosphere</li> <li>Understanding of ML (machine learning) or AI (artificial intelligence) or BI (business intelligence) infrastructure desired</li> <li>Prior early-stage startup experience is an advantage</li> <li>10-20% travel</li> </ul>