Product Manager - 2178 - Kioxia

No Relocation Assistance Provided.

KIOXIA America, Inc. is the U.S.-based subsidiary of KIOXIA Corporation, a leading worldwide supplier of flash memory and solid state drives (SSDs). From the invention of flash memory to today’s breakthrough BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memory technology, KIOXIA continues to pioneer innovative memory, SSD and software solutions that enrich people's lives and expand society's horizons. The company's innovative BiCS FLASH™ 3D flash memory technology is shaping the future of storage in high-density applications, including advanced smartphones, PCs, SSDs, automotive, and data centers.

We are looking for a Product Manager to own and drive product management and marketing activities for Flash Memory products to OEMs across many industries and applications. The ideal candidate will be involved in all aspects of marketing, legal, financial, reporting, logistical, and planning, to drive business for KIOXIA’s products. Collect customer feedback to shape future products and roadmaps, negotiating pricing, and managing any challenges that arise with ingenuity and resolve to help solve them.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update financial forecasts for strategic customers with accuracy. Provide regular updates to finance and management teams, highlighting key insights and variances. Conduct forecast-to-forecast comparisons to identify trends, assess performance to budget, and recommend adjustments as needed. 
• Calculate price adjustment accruals accurately and timely, ensuring compliance with financial policies. Coordinate with overseas colleagues to align on adjustment processes and timelines, facilitating smooth communication and collaboration across teams. Maintain detailed documentation of accrual calculations and adjustments for audit purposes.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues in Japan, KIOXIA overseas companies, Sales, Engineering and other departments to support customer requirements.
• Contribute to the budgeting and mid-term plan processes.
• Develop in-depth technical understanding of the products to the extent appropriate in understanding their business implications, to enhance decision making.

• Bachelor’s Degree, Business/Marketing/Finance or Equivalent. Plus 5+ years job experience preferred
• Experience in business development with OEMs.
• Experienced with NAND Flash or equivalent semiconductor memory products is desired.
• High standard of accuracy, results orientated, flexibility and openness to change.  Ability to work well independently.
• Ability to multi-task and work in a fast paced environment with cross-functional global teams in multiple time zones.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal as well as presentation skills.
• Create and maintain dynamic spreadsheets, pivot tables and complex formulas for reporting and tracking.
• Utilize advance Excel functions (e.g., VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, SUMIF, conditional formatting etc) to manage and analyze large data sets.
• Perform data analysis to support decision making and provide actionable insights.
• Ensure data accuracy and consistency across various Excel based reports and dashboards.
• Strong familiarity with PowerPoint.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Working knowledge of financial reconciliation.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time both domestically and internationally.
• Mandatory time in the office a minimum of three days a week.

Req# 2178; #LI-CB1

The expected salary for this position is $103,026.00 - 169,933.00.

At KIOXIA, we value the following:

• Investment in you
  • Offering opportunities for career growth and personal development training
• Open-minded management
  • Empowering employees by listening and responding to ideas, issues, and approaches
• Flexible work-life balance
  • Offering a generous PTO allotment, holiday shutdown, and flexible work options
• Diversity of cultures, perspectives, backgrounds and experiences of all our team members
  • Through our diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, our focus is to strengthen our company culture to create more inclusion and belonging for all
• Benefits for our team members
  • Excellent medical and non-medical benefits, 401(k) matching, pet insurance

KIOXIA America, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.