Research & Development
Rehovot, IL (Nova HQ)Role Description
What we are looking for:
Nova seeks a Marketing Director to define and lead the long-term product portfolio strategy for the Dimensional Metrology Division.
As part of this role, you will manage a team of Marketing Managers and hold accountability for identifying future market opportunities, technology trends, investment priorities, and the 3–5-year technology roadmap.
In this role, you will own the Product Life Cycle through Gate 2, ensuring that new products entering development are supported by a compelling market opportunity, clear customer value proposition, and robust business case.
You will partner with Executive Management, CTO, Advanced Technology, Corporate Marketing, and strategic customers to prioritize innovation initiatives and support long-term business growth.
Responsibilities
What will you be doing:
- Manage and develop a team of Marketing Managers, setting priorities and ensuring strong execution across portfolio strategy activities.
- Define and maintain the long-term product portfolio strategy, investment priorities, and 3–5-year technology roadmap.
- Build executive relationships with strategic customers to understand future technology roadmaps, emerging applications, and evolving customer needs.
- Monitor customer technology challenges, market dynamics, competitive positioning, and emerging technologies to identify future business opportunities, threats, and portfolio gaps.
- Develop business cases, TAM, SAM, and WFE analyses, market assessments, and portfolio investment recommendations.
- Own the Market Requirements Document, including product positioning, value proposition, pricing strategy, and market segmentation.
- Define product launch strategy in collaboration with Corporate Marketing.
- Partner with Executive Management, CTO, and Advanced Technology to prioritize portfolio investments, innovation initiatives, and long-term business growth.
- Present portfolio strategy, business cases, and investment recommendations to senior stakeholders to support decision-making.
Requirements
Must Have requirements:
- Master’s degree in Physics, Materials Science, Electronics, Optics, or a related technical field.
- Minimum of 5 years of engineering experience in the semiconductor equipment industry.
- Strong knowledge of semiconductor processes and equipment.
- Experience in Product Marketing or Product Management in a global technology company.
- Management experience.
- Strong business and strategic thinking, including market analysis, competitive assessment, and business case development.
- Proven ability to build relationships with strategic customers and lead cross-functional initiatives.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
- Willingness to travel internationally frequently.
Advantages:
- Experience managing Product Marketing or portfolio strategy teams.
- Experience defining long-term product portfolio strategy in the semiconductor industry.
- Experience working with executive customers and senior internal stakeholders.
- Experience leading market requirements, investment recommendations, and product launch strategy.
- Knowledge of metrology, process control, inspection, or adjacent semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
That special something you bring in:
- Strategic leadership with the ability to translate market direction into portfolio choices and investment priorities.
- Strong people leadership skills with the ability to grow, align, and empower a team.
- Excellent business orientation and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Strong technical understanding and ability to connect customer roadmaps with technology development.
- Executive-level communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to drive clarity, prioritization, and alignment in a complex matrix environment.
Get to know us better:
Nova (NASDAQ: NVMI) is a global company and a leading provider of innovative metrology solutions for process control in semiconductor manufacturing.
With a team of ~1200 people in three R&D centers and 27 field offices, we bring insights into the world’s most advanced industry. We leverage multiple technology fields such as physics, optics, chemistry, and algorithms to develop hardware and software solutions that measure almost every advanced computer chip built in the world.
Nova dives deep into dimensions and layers at the atomic level to extract unique insights and provide our customers with crucial decision-making data, managing critical challenges by providing unique, differentiated solutions.
Our outstanding people-focused and innovative culture means every person at Nova has the power to make an impact and significantly redefine what people can achieve through technology.
Join us if you are
A dreamer and brilliant high aimer who sees the impossible as the starting point and loves working in a multidisciplinary global team to create innovative breakthroughs.
If you need assistance due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]
