Jobs at Vital Chemicals USA LLC

Develops new business for optical coating services and capital equipment markets. Builds relationships with AI/AR glass companies, equipment and material suppliers, and research organizations; supports customer qualification through commercialization; coordinates technical and commercial discussions; prepares quotations, forecasts, and presentations; monitors competition; and represents the company at customer visits and industry events. Requires extensive travel, including international travel.

Designs, develops, builds, commissions, qualifies, and troubleshoots PVD equipment, especially magnetron sputtering systems for magnetic thin-film deposition. Leads equipment architecture decisions involving vacuum, gas and power delivery, magnetrons, and target assemblies. Supports R&D and manufacturing, resolves plasma and film-uniformity issues, collaborates cross-functionally, maintains equipment documentation and preventive-maintenance procedures, and implements reliability improvements and upgrades.

Lead and manage complex projects across manufacturing, R&D, and product implementation. Develop project plans, manage budgets and risks, coordinate stakeholders and vendors, monitor progress, and implement process improvements to ensure timely, on-budget delivery and high quality.

Manage end-to-end payroll across multiple schedules, ensure accurate payroll processing and compliance, produce payroll reports and reconciliations, maintain HRIS records, support onboarding/offboarding and benefits changes, and act as employee payroll/HR point of contact.

Drive equipment sales of PVD vacuum systems across the Americas, owning budget and forecasts, developing customer strategic plans, negotiating contracts, supporting order-to-installation project coordination, providing market intelligence to R&D and marketing, and maintaining customer relationships through frequent travel.

Senior executive leading sales across North and South America for multiple business units. Develops and executes sales strategies, drives revenue growth, manages and mentors sales leaders, oversees pricing and partnerships, analyzes market trends and KPIs, ensures customer satisfaction and compliance, and provides sales reporting and financial oversight.

Perform daily AP and bank transaction recording in QuickBooks, reconcile accounts, assist month-end close and financial reporting, maintain documentation, support audits, and coordinate with HQ.

Manage a defined hyperscaler-focused account territory to generate pipeline, drive discovery-to-close opportunities (pilots/design-wins), align technical stakeholders, coordinate evaluations, and work cross-functionally on pricing, packaging, forecasting, and commercialization.

Provide hands-on technical support for hyperscaler evaluations of high-speed optical transceivers: set up Bay Area test lab, run interoperability and acceptance tests, diagnose BER/signal integrity/thermal issues, produce reports, and translate customer requirements into engineering feedback to enable evaluation-to-deployment success.