Communications Strategist – Technical Conferences, Publications
KLA
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Milpitas • California • Missouri • United States
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Salary
💰 $103,700 - $176,300 per year
About the role
- Define and lead KLA’s strategy for participation in external technical conferences and seminars
- Establish, refine and manage processes and resources supporting KLA-authored technical papers
- Partner with senior product staff to develop external paper and presentation strategies that support product and business objectives
- Collaborate across product teams to establish clear strategies, key messages and positioning for papers and presentations at top tier industry conferences
- Partner with regional teams to identify high-impact conference and seminar opportunities and manage content that supports regional priorities and messaging
- Proactively identify priority conferences and seminars; manage submissions, issue internal calls for papers, and track key deadlines, approvals and required processes
- Review and approve paper content to ensure compliance with KLA brand, product, portfolio, messaging and trademark standards
- Own and maintain a centralized library of technical manuscripts for the KLA community
- Repurpose high-value papers and case studies into blog posts and social media content
- Partner with other communications functions to define the social media strategy for promotion of technical conference papers and participation
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree plus 5 years’ experience; or Masters degree plus 3 years’ experience; or PhD plus 0 years’ experience
- Ability to lead cross‑functional collaboration with senior product leaders to drive clear, strategic direction for technical papers
- Ability to coordinate messaging to define strategies across product teams and subject matter experts
- Ability to manage conference and publication assets, databases and processes
- Strong communications skills for dissemination of conference details, procedures and deadlines
- Strong editing skills for technical manuscripts and presentations
- Ability to create blog or social media content in partnership with product teams and editorial and social media leads
- Organized and skilled at managing multiple concurrent projects to deadline
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life
- other voluntary benefits
- 401(K) including company matching
- employee stock purchase program (ESPP)
- student debt assistance
- tuition reimbursement program
- development and career growth opportunities and programs
- financial planning benefits
- wellness benefits including an employee assistance program (EAP)
- paid time off
- paid company holidays
- family care and bonding leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
technical writingeditingcontent managementproject managementsocial media content creationconference managementpublication managementstrategic communicationpresentation developmentprocess management
Soft Skills
cross-functional collaborationorganizational skillscommunication skillsstrategic thinkingleadershiptime managementattention to detailcreativityproblem-solvingadaptability