Lead strategic account growth for Cadence EDA, IP, hardware, and design services. Direct worldwide account executive and technical executive teams, coordinate application engineering resources, build sales pipelines, achieve booking targets, and advise executive customers on complex design and business challenges. Develop differentiated solutions, align customer roadmaps, foster executive relationships, and advocate internally for customer requirements.
At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
The right Account Director at Cadence is responsible for developing and driving our strategy for adoption and growth of Cadence solutions for a strategic account. The role requires working in a large, worldwide team environment, leading a WW Account Executive (AX) and Account Technical Executive (ATX) team, leading and coordinating field Application Engineer resources and facilitating customer interactions between Cadence Marketing/Engineering/Executive Management. A successful candidate will be able to consult with executive decision makers (EVP and C-Suite), working collaboratively to bring innovative design flows to ensure customer success using a Cadence product/IP/services portfolio.
Responsibilities include:
- Leading and inspiring a team of high-performance AX and ATXs
- Closely coordinating activities to maintain/build a robust sales pipeline and meet/exceed quarterly and annual booking targets.
- Consulting with clients on design/system requirements and helping architect those requirements into a differentiated solution. Providing guidance to the customer on the technical and business benefits of Cadence’s offering including EDA software, IP, hardware and Design Services.
- The ability to foster and grow customer relationships throughout all levels of the customer organization to better connect our solutions with the customer's problems/business challenges and ensure roadmap alignment for long term success.
Requirements:
- BSEE/MSEE with 8+ years of experience in related field with proven track record of success.
- 5+ years of experience managing technical and/or engineering teams.
- Design flow expertise and application related to the types of products in the Cadence product portfolio, including IC and System design.
- Demonstrable soft skills that include exceptional verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills; able to negotiate, influence, resolve conflicts and consult at senior and executive customer levels; partner with and advise customers on business issues, highly technical and complex solutions and integration challenges.
- Strong cross organizational skills to advocate on the customer’s behalf to internal Cadence technical and business stakeholders to support the customer’s situation and requirements.
- Working knowledge of software, IP and business processes is mandatory
- Previous experience as System Architect and/or Design Manager is a plus
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