by on An Electronics Company in Orange County, CA is looking for a Technical Product Specialist ‐ Other
Title: Technical Product Specialist
Type: Direct
FLSA: Exempt
Location: Orange County, CA
Work Style: In-person / Hybrid / Remote options
Hours: Monday – Friday 8:30AM – 5:00PM
Pay Range: $100 – 120k / Y
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Life, Vison, 401k
Travel: 25% – primarily areas around Northern Virginia and the Bay area of California.
Job Description
Technical product sales and support
- Create and maintain up-to-date product information masters for new and existing products, i.e. Ordering guides, technical documents, presentations, product bulletins, brochures, catalogs, operating procedures (in various formats), competitive analysis and benefits, etc., for internal and external use/distribution.
- Speak with and travel to the customers’ engineering teams’ locations and field to promote and introduce our products for type-approval. Once approved, as appropriate, pass over to the appropriate account sales managers.
- Help resolve technical problems by performing tests, collecting data, and reporting.
- Maintain project schedules and records for ISO compliance with respect to product design reviews, development, evaluation, and data gathering activity.
- Interface with industry technical groups (Bellcore, TIA, Telcordia, etc.)
Technical Marketing
- Analyze competing products in the marketplace.
- Build and maintain competitive product information library.
- Provide the company with market knowledge from technical and organizational perspectives.
- Interface with parent company to direct the technical marketing activity in US, as well as other country outside US if necessity. Participate in internal design review activity.
- Investigate, develop, and document new products, methods and procedures as related to strategic markets and solutions.
- Organize Webinar, Podcast etc… to penetrate products for customer.
- Write technical papers for trade publications and for industry presentation.
Other Supporting Duties
- Help product operations including supply chain management.
- Support sales teams: respond to customer requests for application assistance, qualifying leads, assuring product selection, and providing other customer-required information as needed.
- Any additional reasonable activity not mentioned above to increase the company’s revenue and profit.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or above in an engineering related field (electrical, mechanical, etc.)
- 5 years of related engineering industry experience preferred. (telecommunications / electronics / infrastructure / fiber optics / etc.)
- Prior project management experience is preferred.
- Japanese language skills would be a plus but not required.
