KLA Regional Product Manager 

Japan, Yokohama 

640100653

Responsibilities

• Develop product strategy to achieve product adoption, market share, and penetration.
• Account for near and short term business requirements, competition, and total team capability.
• Broad concepts and business strategies are synthesized into structured and concrete product plans.
• Achieve alignment and buy-in across product functions.
• Clear and compelling technical presentations that portray the value of our products to the customers.
• Proactively works with account managers and customers to facilitate sales.
• Monitor competitive activity and manage head to head evaluations
• Complementing and coordinating with the application engineers, bridge the customer environment to the engineering team.
• Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments
• Drive product adoption at customer site
• Support HQ and local Business Unit to achieve their business goals

Technical Skills:

• Deep understanding of defect inspection systems and yield analysis
• Knowledgeable of Inspection & Metrology for process control
• Hands-on experience to use defect or yield management system in the fab

Important Skills:

• Be a driver
• Successful with multiple cultures environment
• Leadership competencies: successful execution of projects
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Handle multiple projects in parallel
• Excellent problem solving skills. Have creative and out of box thinking approach to deal with customer challenges

Basic Qualifications:

• Local Languages; fluent English
• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Must have at least 5 years of fab experience in defect or yield analysis
• Understanding of software development and architecture is desirable
• Hands-on experience to market and sell enterprise software is a plus

Doctorate (Academic) Degree and related work experience of 3 years; Master's Level Degree and related work experience of 6 years; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 8 years