# Director, Optics Strategy and Partnerships

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 216,000 USD - 345,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA is seeking a Director, Optics Strategy and Partnerships to join its networking product marketing team in Santa Clara. The successful candidate will have a great chance to influence the future of data centers and networking technology.

As an essential team member, you will help develop and build the optics roadmap for scale-out and scale-up networking. You will simplify complex requirements into clear working documents and communicate the vision to internal and external groups.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead the optics product and technology roadmap process across all data center and networking platforms

- Engage with customers and developers to understand use cases, difficulties, and requirements

- Provide input and mentorship to architecture and development teams for optics and interconnects

- Identify and evaluate new technologies, innovations, and partner relationships to align with the strategic technology roadmap

- Produce informative technical content to emphasize the value and innovation of optics and interconnect platforms

Requirements:

- BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Applied Sciences, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)

- 15+ overall years of relevant industry experience, with 10 or more years in a leadership role

- Proven experience and solid understanding of optical interconnects, silicon photonics, lasers, or closely related technologies

- Practical knowledge of Networking and Data Center infrastructure

- Demonstrated experience and skills in building partnerships, managing business contracts, and investment justifications

Nice-to-have skills:

- Proven track record in product management or product marketing for optical transceivers, silicon photonics, or co-packaged optics

- Direct experience working with high-performance data center networking or computing platforms

- Background in formulating product strategies or specifying requirements related to networking or data center environments

- Outstanding interpersonal skills

The base salary range is 216,000 USD - 345,000 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Applied Sciences
- Optical Interconnects
- Silicon Photonics
- Lasers
- Networking
- Data Center Infrastructure
- Partnership Building
- Contract Management

### Nice to have
- Product Management
- Product Marketing
- Optical Transceivers
- Co-packaged Optics
- High-performance Data Center Networking
- Computing Platforms
- Product Strategy
- Interpersonal Skills

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