VP of Technical Marketing – PQShield
Reports to: Chief Commercial Officer
Location: [Remote / UK / US] ·You must have the right to work in one the above countries in order to be considered for the role.
💼 About the role
PQShield is looking for a VP of Technical Marketing to make PQShield the technology and the brand the industry thinks of first for post-quantum security.
You will be the commercial team's technical voice in the market. You'll build the solutions and partnerships that help our sales team grow the pipeline, develop the semiconductor ecosystem around our IP, and lead technical thought leadership with customers, partners, standards bodies, and industry analysts.
Since NIST published its first post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards, which the PQShield team co-authored, semiconductor companies, OEMs, and system builders across automotive, defense, industrial IoT, networking, and enterprise face a hard and urgent transition. This role puts PQShield at the center of that transition — through the partners who build with our IP, the solutions customers deploy, and the industry relationships that shape how the market moves.
This is a senior role for someone who combines a security IP background with deep industry relationships, and who knows how to turn both into revenue.
⚒️ What you’ll be doing
Build solutions that grow pipeline: Create reference solutions, joint offerings, and use-case packages that give sales clear, repeatable ways into accounts. Combine PQPlatform, PQPerform, PQCryptoLib, and PQMicroLib with partner technology into solutions customers can adopt quickly.
Develop the semiconductor ecosystem: Build and manage relationships with semiconductor suppliers, foundries, EDA and IP partners, processor and security-subsystem providers, and design services firms. Make PQShield IP the default choice for PQC in their roadmaps, reference designs, and platforms.
Drive partnerships that create demand: Identify, structure, and launch technical partnerships that open new markets and channels. Own the technical case for each partnership and ensure it produces pipeline, not just announcements.
Lead technical thought leadership: Be the senior technical voice of the commercial team. Speak at industry conferences, brief analysts and press, author white papers and technical articles, and represent PQShield in standards and industry forums.
Use industry relationships to build the brand: Leverage your network across semiconductors, security, and system OEMs to establish PQShield as the key technology and brand for post-quantum security.
Arm the commercial team technically: Give sales, FAEs, and partners the technical narratives, architectures, competitive positioning, and solution content they need to win complex, multi-stakeholder deals with engineers, architects, and executives.
Shape the market narrative: Define how the industry thinks about the post-quantum transition, cryptographic agility, side-channel and fault-injection protection, and certification (FIPS 140-3, SESIP, Common Criteria, ISO 26262) — and where PQShield fits.
Lead technical launches: Plan and deliver the technical go-to-market for new products, certifications, reference designs, and partner integrations.
Bring the market back in: Feed customer, partner, and competitive insight into product and engineering so our roadmap stays ahead of where the market is heading.
Build the team: Hire and lead a technical marketing team as the role scales.
What success looks like in your first 12 months
We will measure this role on the following deliverables:
Reference designs: Deliver 2 PQShield reference designs on widely used MCUs or SoCs, built with silicon partners and used in active sales opportunities.
Semiconductor ecosystem: Sign 5 ecosystem partners, such as silicon vendors, EDA and IP partners, or design services firms, that include PQShield IP in their roadmaps, reference designs or platforms.
Joint roadmap meetings and OEM requirements: Run 10 joint roadmap…