Director of Marketing, Asia-Pacific & Japan
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Job description
First Marketing hire in Asia-Pacific for Axelera AI, owning the full-funnel regional marketing plan and budget across Taiwan, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia. The role builds regional strategy and execution from scratch, bridging hands-on tactical work with long-term planning.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · India
- Languages
- English – professional
What you'll do
- Own the APAC marketing plan and budget, and make the case for where regional investment goes
- Run full-funnel programs in-region: demand generation, content, digital, PR, and the events that matter in each market
- Make our positioning land locally — not just translated from English, but written for the engineers and executives who will read it
- Own our presence at regional events, from Computex and SEMICON through to the country-level shows where our customers engage
- Work with the Sales teams in-region so marketing follows the accounts and relationships that matter most
- Feed what you learn back to the global marketing team, and bring global launches into the region properly
- Report on pipeline contribution, and be honest about what is working and what is not
What we're looking for
- Full-funnel B2B technology marketing experience in APAC, including both strategy and your own hands on the work
- A track record across several of our markets — Taiwan, Japan, Korea, India, Southeast Asia — and a clear view of how differently each one behaves
- Experience selecting, briefing, and managing agencies, with the judgement to know when to outsource and when not to
- Comfort with technical products and technical audiences, ideally in semiconductors, hardware, embedded systems, or infrastructure
Nice to have
- Experience as an early or first marketing hire in a region
- Existing relationships with regional trade press and analysts
- Familiarity with compute ecosystems and how they shape go-to-market
- Professional English plus at least one regional language, with the cultural fluency to review local-language work and catch what is wrong with it
Your team
Marketing
Global marketing team with regional peers; this is the first marketing hire in Asia-Pacific
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About Axelera AI
Next-generation AI platform
Deep-tech company that launched the Metis™ AI Platform, which achieves a 3-5x increase in efficiency and performance, with visibility into a business pipeline exceeding $100 million.
Mission
Creating the next-generation AI platform to support anyone who wants to help advancing humanity and improve the world around us.
Key facts
- AI / semiconductors
- Launched the Metis™ AI Platform, achieving a 3-5x increase in efficiency and performance
- Visibility into a strong business pipeline exceeding $100 million
- Described as a global industry pioneer