Product Marketing Manager, DVD

Job Description

As the Product Marketing Manager for DVD, you will be part of a cross-functional team that is charged with the product line contribution within the DivX consumer electronics business unit that focuses on DVD playback, HD and DVD-recordable markets. You will be responsible for increasing the company's understanding of these markets through customer interaction, trade shows and market research. You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy and a big-picture vision. You must be comfortable with complex markets to understand their problems, and find innovative solutions for the broader penetration in world-wide geographic regions.



You must also be able to effectively communicate with all areas of the company. You will work primarily with the product management, partner marketing and world-wide sales teams to define the go-to-market strategies, helping them understand the product positioning, key benefits and target customers. You will also serve as the internal and external evangelist for your product offering, working with the sales channel and key customers to increase DivX playback licensing business. You will have a unique understanding of your market size, available market as well as key market segments and be able to estimate share of market via research, tradeshows and general customers interaction facilitated by sales.



Job Responsibilities

Conduct market analysis and research
Direct inbound and outbound communication with cross functional teams
Develop sales and web collateral
Specify market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and non-customers
Drive a solution set for new products and market segments across development teams (primarily Development/Engineering and Marketing Communications)
Develop and implement a company-wide go-to-market plan, working with all departments to execute
Analyze potential partner relationships for emerging consumer electronics product categories
Must be willing to travel to customer and non-customer sites in North America, Asia and Europe



Preferred Skills



Technical Skills

Demonstrated ability to clearly define market requirements, determine the total available market and share of market for a product segment, provide competitive intelligence on other offerings, and create effective go-to-market strategies
Extensive knowledge of the DVD, DMA, HD, and DVD-R ecosystem extending from technology licensing, IC vendors and OEMs through consumer marketing
Exceptional market knowledge particularly as it relates to component suppliers, manufacturers and OEM brands
Must be able to quickly assimilate technical options and tradeoffs and guide engineering to the optimal balance of meeting customer needs, beating competitors, and operating within resource constraints
Some knowledge of MPEG-4, H.264 and related video codec technologies with an emphasis on multimedia playback applications
Some knowledge of embedded operating systems and processor architectures



Professional Skills

5+ years of increasing responsibility in product management or product marketing in a consumer electronics product environment
Must be a highly motivated self-starter with a high degree of integrity and creativity
Charismatic team player. Must be able to complement other product initiatives and work cross-functionally with other departments to drive and execute product strategy.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to develop and present highly professional, effective presentations for both business and technical audiences
Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, fluid and fun startup environment



Education

A bachelor's degree in Marketing, Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent work experience is required. An MBA is desired. Fluency in Japanese or Mandarin is a plus.



Compensation

An excellent compensation package comprised of base salary, competitive benefits and stock options will be structured to attract an outstanding professional.


About DivX

DivX is a community rich with culture and informed by creativity, intelligence and passion for all that is possible with digital media. DivX is an open space, figuratively and literally. No one has an office here, not even the CEO, and our ?business casual? means flip flops and jeans.


We?ve found that work can be better, brighter, more spontaneous and fun. We have Wednesday ?(Surf)Board Meetings? and ?Smackdown,? our weekly basketball games. With four weeks of PTO, we work hard and play hard. DivX has a competitive compensation package including salary and stock options, not to mention we often rent movie theaters to watch popular films on opening night. We are digital artisans working together; a tightly knit team bound by the vision of what our technology can bring to the world?a better media future.


When you're here, you find it's not about the 9 to 5, or whittling away the hours in the confines of a tiny grey cube. Dare to peek over the edge? Give us a call.


Learn more about DivX.

How to Apply

Please follow this link to apply: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA1/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=DIVX&cws=1&rid=98