Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Seagate Technology is seeking a Sr. Staff Technical Marketing Analyst with expertise in hard disk drive technology and manufacturing. The role involves developing quantitative models, conducting cost analysis, and providing technical insights to support business and competitive strategies.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain quantitative models grounded in HDD architecture, physics, component behavior, and system-level interactions
- Ensure models reflect cost estimates, sourcing implications, technology constraints, engineering tolerances, and manufacturing flows from sourced components to final assembly and shipment
- Create forecasts including nominal expectations, sensitivities, and scenario analysis tied to real HDD market, customer, design, and factory assumptions
- Provide insight into how technology choices affect factory throughput, scrap, bottlenecks, test coverage, and long-term cost efficiency
- Build bottom-up HDD cost models with component-level detail across mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and production elements
- Coordinate competitive cost teardown, cost modeling and scenario analysis as a core responsibility
- Interpret industry HDD technology differences and articulate resulting cost, performance, sourcing, and market advantages
- Partner with business pricing teams, and portfolio owners to provide technical insight that enhances business and competitive analysis
- Translate analytical outputs into actionable inputs for roadmaps, pricing strategy, warranty, and customer discussions
- Drive data-backed discussions with engineering, operations, manufacturing, and technology strategy teams
- Influence decisions through technical credibility and data-driven insight
- Maintain transparent, well-documented models and assumptions
- Establish scalable analytical frameworks to support long-term decision making
Skills
- Extensive experience in roles involving technical modeling, systems analysis, or technology strategy
- Deep understanding of HDD architecture, physics, and manufacturing processes
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with experience building and maintaining structured models
- Strong understanding of the HDD competitive marketplace and must be able to translate understanding into competitive market and cost/value competitiveness
- Maintain and improve upon a competitive cost analysis model and perform scenario analysis
- Ability to work effectively with ambiguous requirements and incomplete data
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to senior stakeholders or external customers
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across a variety of technical and business organizations, including engineering, operations, sourcing, marketing, finance, and sales
- Experience working directly in storage industry/devices, hardware platforms, infrastructure systems, or large-scale technology deployments
- Familiarity with storage market system total cost of ownership analysis
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Applied Sciences, Operations Research, or equivalent experience
Benefits
- Eligibility to participate in discretionary bonus program
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- Short-and long-term disability
- 401(k)
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Health savings account
- Dependent care, and healthcare spending accounts
- Paid time off, including 12 holidays
- Flexible time off provided pursuant to Seagate policy
- A minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
Company Overview
Seagate is a data storage and hardware company that offers hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), and other storage solutions. It was founded in 1979, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.seagate.com.