Drive sales growth for cutting tools across the Greater Chicago territory by developing customer and distributor relationships, recommending tooling solutions, presenting products, updating CRM records, and supporting customer follow-up. The role requires CNC and metal-cutting expertise, analysis of tooling needs, test data and market feedback for engineering teams, and some overnight travel.

Owns the technical roadmap for hyperscale AI infrastructure and GPU-cluster solutions involving CPO, silicon photonics, optical interconnect, networking, and compute architectures. Evaluates industry technology and competitive roadmaps, guides R&D priorities, develops ecosystem partnerships, advises leadership, and represents the company at conferences, standards bodies, and co-innovation forums. The role requires strong systems expertise, executive communication, external influence, and strategic technology forecasting.