Sr. Staff Technical Marketing Analyst (Bay Area Remote)

Seagate Technology; Fremont (CA); Remote; USD 166,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus program

Medical, dental, vision, life

401(k)

Employee stock purchase plan

Health savings account (HSA)

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Paid sick leave

Parental leave

Job summary

Seagate Technology seeks a Sr. Staff Technical Marketing Analyst to translate HDD architecture, manufacturing realities and cost structures into clear insights that guide product roadmaps, pricing and investment decisions.

You will build bottom-up cost models, perform scenario analysis, and influence senior stakeholders across engineering, operations, and finance. The role requires deep HDD knowledge, first-principles thinking, and strong communication skills to deliver data-driven guidance that

Qualifications

• Experience in technical modeling, systems analysis or technology strategy.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills with structured models.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presenting to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain HDD cost and performance models across mechanical, magnetic, electronic and production elements.
• Coordinate cost teardown, modeling and scenario analysis for competitive insights.
• Partner with pricing, portfolio teams to inform roadmaps, pricing strategy and customer discussions.
• Drive data-backed discussions with engineering, operations, manufacturing, sourcing, marketing, finance and sales.

Skills

Technical modeling

Systems analysis

Technology strategy

Quantitative analytics

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering/Applied Sciences/OR

Job description

About our group:

We are seeking a Sr. Staff Technical Marketing Analyst with deep hard disk drive (HDD) technology and manufacturing expertise to support the Technical Marketing organization. This role requires a first-principles understanding of HDD architecture, physics, component functions, and system-level behavior, combined with strong analytical, modeling, and communication skills.

The position operates at the intersection of HDD technology development, manufacturing operations, product strategy, finance, and commercial teams. The successful candidate will translate technology choices, manufacturing realities, and cost structures into clear, defensible insights that inform product roadmaps, competitive positioning, pricing analysis and investment decisions.

This role is expected to bring unique technical insight that materially strengthens business, pricing, marketing, competitive, and portfolio analysis, particularly at senior and executive decision levels.

About the role - you will:

HDD Technology & Manufacturing Modeling

• 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.

Cost Structure & Competitive Analysis

• 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.

Business & Strategy Partnership

• 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.

Cross-Functional Technical Influence

• 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.

About you:

• 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.

Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available with this position

Your experience includes:

• 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 expereince.

What Success Looks Like

• Leadership and teams rely on this role for objective, data-driven, technology grounded insight.
• Analytical outputs are trusted, repeatable, and used in real decisions for roadmap, customer business terms and investment decisions.
• Complex technology, manufacturing, and business tradeoffs are clearly explained and well understood by stakeholders.
• Processes and models are left stronger, clearer, and more scalable than before.

Location:

Bay Area Remote or Fremont Research Center or Remote - US; #LI-Remote United States

Seagate is able to offer virtual employment for this position in the following states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY.

The estimated base salary range for this position is $166,000 - $242,000. The individual salary is based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Seagate offers comprehensive benefits to its eligible employees, including, but not limited to, 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. Seagate also offers paid time off, including 12 holidays, flexible time off provided pursuant to Seagate policy, a minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave. The benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year and may differ depending on work location.

Location: Remote United States Bay Area

Travel: Up to 10%

Information at a Glance

About Us

With more than four decades of storage innovation, Seagate empowers humanity to thrive in the data age and helps people and businesses navigate the ever-expanding data landscape.

We craft precision-engineered, cutting-edge solutions that help the world store and manage exponential data growth.

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