Director of Product Marketing, Avicena Tech
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
High bandwidth semiconductor interconnects
Job no longer available
High bandwidth semiconductor interconnects
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To unleash the power of next-generation computer architectures.
Role
Who you are
- You have a proven track record of launching, growing and managing successful product lines in the semiconductor industry, and you have led strategic design wins at Tier 1 customers
- You possess a unique blend of marketing, business and technical expertise, you thrive in the fast-paced environment of the high-tech start-up world and enjoy working in a high-power team
- Bachelor’s degree in EE, CS, physics or business. Master’s degree and/or MBA preferred
- 10+ years of relevant semiconductor industry experience
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Product life cycle and portfolio management experience
- Proven ability in building strong customer and partner relationships
- Experience in building and leading strong teams
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with engineering organizations
- Thorough understanding of semiconductor design cycles and product trade-offs
- Understanding datacenter, AI/ML architectures and the critical underlying semiconductor building blocks
What the job involves
- As Director of Product Marketing, you will be responsible for leading a cross functional team to set the strategic direction and define the product roadmap for Avicena’s innovative ultra-low power and high bandwidth microLED based interconnects for chip-to-chip communications
- Define the Product/Technology roadmap. Identify new market opportunities and drive plans to exploit them
- Assess competitive solutions and customer development plans to drive a compelling product roadmap with clear value proposition at leading customers
- Establish strong customer relationships and drive design wins
- Own product forecasting for effective planning and management of the business
- Define and develop product collateral, competitive analysis, product roll out, and field training
- Identify investments required to drive sustainable business growth and profitability
Our take
Copper has been the industry standard for chip-to-chip interconnects since it was introduced by IBM back in 1997. Now, however, the computational demands of more complex systems like AI, machine learning, and cloud systems are too high: copper interconnects are creating bottlenecks thanks to sub-optimal latency and power consumption. Avicena Tech has developed a new system - and it could be a game changer.
The company’s ‘LightBundle’ solution uses micro-LEDs to create ultra-dense, low-latency, low-cost, and low-power optical interconnects, thereby facilitating the kind of high-performance architecture that’s in increasingly high demand as digital infrastructure becomes more complex.
It’s a solution that’s attracted healthy funding from major players including Samsung Catalyst Fund and Cerberus Capital Management. This suggests substantial faith in Avicena’s ambition that its technology could help unlock the future of distributed high-performance computing and disaggregated architecture. Although a relatively modest outfit for now, Avicena’s advances could prove highly influential over the coming years.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2025
$65m
SERIES B
Aug 2022
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $96.5m
Company benefits
- Stock Options
- Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability
- 401(k)
- Free Food
- And More!
Company HQ
Alviso, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Bardia Pezeshki
(Founder & CEO)After their PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford, they held various Managerial roles at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center and then SDL Inc. Subsequently served as CTO at Santur Corporation, and then CEO at Kaiam Corporation.
Rob Kalman
(CTO)Worked on photonic interconnects and optical subsystems at Optivision and ONI Systems, and has subsequently held various VP roles at Luminous Networks and Thryva (which he co-founded).
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