Sandia Optical
Open role · Full-time · Albuquerque, NM (hybrid)

Marketing Operations Specialist

Run the engineering-led marketing operation behind sandiaoptical.com, the SPIE/Photonics West cadence, and the engineer-to-engineer content program.

Responsibilities

What you'll own

  • Operate the marketing stack — site CMS edits, analytics, email, and event logistics — so the engineering team can publish technical content without friction.
  • Maintain the editorial calendar across the site, trade-show season, and customer-facing technical briefs.
  • Coordinate trade-show logistics, booth content, and follow-up with the BD lead for SPIE, Photonics West, AutoSens, and Vision.
  • Track inbound from the contact form, newsletter, and event scans; route qualified leads to BD with the right context attached.
  • Own brand-voice integrity: no marketing superlatives, no decontextualized category claims; every assertion has a measurement or process behind it.
Requirements

What we're looking for

  • Three or more years marketing operations or content operations for a technical company — sensors, optics, components, or industrial.
  • Comfortable editing technical copy without flattening it into marketing fluff.
  • Solid hands-on with the modern marketing stack (CMS, GA4, ESP, light HTML/CSS).
  • Willingness to learn polymer-optics vocabulary to a working depth — enough to spot claims engineering hasn't signed off on.
Nice to have

Useful, not required

  • Prior experience supporting a defense or medical-device manufacturer where claim discipline matters.
  • Hands-on Astro, Vite, or comparable static-site experience.
More about the role

Context

About the role

Marketing at Sandia is engineering-led, which means marketing operations is what makes the engineering output legible. You’ll keep the calendar, the events, and the inbound routing tight, and you’ll defend the voice — no fluff, no superlatives, every claim grounded.

Who you’ll work with

  • The optical and mechanical design lead, on capability and DFM content.
  • The senior quality department manager, on certification claims and language.
  • The BD director, on event cadence and inbound qualification.

How to apply

Send a short note and resume to the address linked above. Include one piece of technical marketing you helped ship that an engineering reviewer signed off on without flattening.

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