Director of Marketing, Asia-Pacific & Japan

The role

You will be the first marketing hire in Asia-Pacific, owning the full-funnel marketing strategy and execution across Taiwan, Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia. You will manage the regional marketing plan, budget, and local presence to drive awareness and pipeline.

What you will do

• Own the APAC marketing plan and budget
• Run full-funnel programs including demand generation, content, digital, PR, and events
• Adapt positioning for local engineers and executives
• Manage presence at regional events
• Work with in-region Sales teams
• Feed regional learnings back to the global marketing team
• Report on pipeline contribution

Required qualifications

• Full-funnel B2B technology marketing experience in APAC, including strategy and hands-on work
• Track record across Taiwan, Japan, Korea, India, or Southeast Asia
• Experience selecting, briefing, and managing agencies
• Comfort with technical products and technical audiences 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

Benefits

• Attractive compensation package
• Pension plan
• Extensive employee insurances
• Option to get company shares

About the company

Axelera AI is a deep-tech company creating a next-generation AI platform. The company is headquartered at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Netherlands, and has a global team of 250+ employees.