Technical Marketing Manager

Your Job

Molex is expanding its Wavelength Management business and is seeking a Technical Marketing Manager to join our team in Fremont, CA to help drive growth with strategic customers. In this role, you will own technical and commercial engagement with assigned accounts, translating complex optical technologies into compelling customer solutions. You will work at the intersection of sales, product, and engineering to influence design wins, support customer opportunities, and shape future product direction.

Our Team

You will join the Technical Marketing team within Molex Optical Solutions , supporting the Wavelength Management business. The team partners closely with Sales, Product Line Management, and Engineering to enable customer success and identify new growth opportunities across telecom and datacom markets.

Molex is an industry leader in transforming optical network infrastructure with an unwavering commitment to speed, reliability, and performance. We proudly engineer high-performance systems for critical, fast-growing industries including data centers, telecom, medical, and industrial automation. Our team develops an advanced portfolio of optical solutions, ranging from cutting-edge optical connectivity products-such as expanded beam connectors, fiber management, adapters, and hybrid copper/fiber solutions for medical systems-to end-to-end optoelectronic solutions featuring cages, connectors, optical transceivers, and cable assemblies. Supporting extreme data rates from 100 Mbps to 1.6 Tbps across long-haul distances up to 80km+, we deliver complete wavelength management and turnkey OEM solutions. Come join Molex and help build the future of global connectivity.

What You Will Do

• Partner with Sales to develop and execute account strategies, sharing ownership of key customer relationships
• Represent Molex's optical products, solutions, and system-level capabilities to address complex customer application needs
• Drive technical engagement that leads to design wins and long-term customer adoption
• Lead technical input for RFQs and RFPs, influencing solution positioning and supporting competitive proposals
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to align customer requirements with product capabilities and execution plans
• Act as the primary technical interface for customers across design, qualification, and post-sales engagement
• Bring forward customer and market insights to inform product roadmap decisions and feature prioritization

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline
• 1+ year of experience in a technical, applications engineering, product engineering, or customer-facing technical role within optical networking or fiber-optic products
• Experience supporting telecom or datacom optical networking applications

What Will Put You Ahead

• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly
• Customer-focused mindset with the ability to collaborate across functions
• Advanced technical degree (MS or PhD)
• Exposure to Technical Marketing, Product Line Management, or Sales within the fiber-optics industry
• Experience with DWDM systems and optical networking technologies such as optical amplifiers, WSS, and ROADMs

For this role, we anticipate paying $150,000 - $220,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.


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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.


Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).