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Director, Marketing, Japan. Based in Tokyo.
This person is responsible for implementing the marketing program in Japan and reports to the Vice-President of Corporate Marketing and Corporate Development. It provides an opportunity to work closely with the Japanese sales office while being an integral part of a global marketing organization.
The successful candidate must have extensive experience marketing networking equipment (10+ years) and will have a strong grasp of networking—with a command of routing and routing protocols, switching MPLS and other networking technologies. Must be fluent in English.
Responsibilities include:
· Manage all Japanese marketing activities
· Develop and execute the Japan marketing strategy.
· Forecast and justify national marketing budget.
· Perform competitive analysis on perception of RSTN vis-à-vis its competitors
· Drive Japan advertising strategy and planning
· Develop and interact closely with the press, analysts and other industry
· Implement demand generation activities including technical seminars, events, tradeshows
· Support marketing requirements of VAR and Resellers.
Riverstone Networks, Inc., (Nasdaq: RSTN) builds routers that convert raw bandwidth into profitable services for metropolitan area networks. Riverstone's products enable the creation of profitable services and the delivery of these services over next-generation and legacy networks, including SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet, T1/E1, T3/E3, and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM). Riverstone products bring together fourth-generation Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), battle-tested routing software, and unparalleled media versatility to deliver comprehensive solutions for metropolitan area networks. Riverstone's products are deployed in more than 40 countries and in some of the world's largest networks, including British Telecom, Genuity, MCI WorldCom, MAE West Ames, EarthLink, NTT, and Telefonica.