Senior Sales / Business Development Manager for Engineering Services

Sales/Senior Business Development Manager for Engineering Services

Overview:

Encore Semi, Inc. is rapidly growing and highly successful engineering services company. It provides highly talented teams of experts that are contributing to customer’s projects in SoC, platforms and software life cycle. Our focus and promise is to provide high-value to customers, through acceleration, performance improvement, optimization, risk mitigation or other high-impact metrics.

Head Quartered in San Diego, Encore Semi has a large portfolio of tier1 customers across the entire North America territory. The Encore Semi engineering teams are deployed and developed where customers have the most needs.

In order to support the strong market demand and contribute to its growth in the Bay Area, Encore Semi is expanding its sales coverage and recruiting an additional Senior Sales Manager for the Bay Area region, directly reporting to the President.

This position is located in the San Jose CA , Austin TX, San Diego CA areas.

Responsibilities:

The Senior Sales Manager for the Bay Area is an autonomous position focused on promoting and selling expert engineering services from Encore Semi to customers in the US. The responsibilities include:
 
• Define and execute an ambitious go-to-market strategy for US customers.
• Define areas of focus, for highest revenues and best margins.
• Leverage personal and company industry network to identify new opportunities.
• Characterize customer projects and identify where & when Encore Semi can bring the highest value
• Interact with the various customer’s engineering groups to understand their needs for engineering expertise.
• Define and deploy a strategy to leverage the existing pool of Encore Semi experts, and synchronize new projects with their availability.
• Develop intimacy and acquire a deep understanding of the target accounts and their way of working regarding outsourced/contracted services.
• Work with the Encore Semi engineering managers to shape appealing best value proposals for customers.
• Develop detailed job descriptions for the targeted services, map against current pool of Encore Semi experts and work with the recruiting team to hire new employees if necessary.
• Continuously contribute to the definition and development of best-in-class sales / marketing collaterals.
• Contribute to the development of new business models and new commercial approaches to continuously adapt and innovate towards best financial performance (revenues & margins).

This highly strategic position requires developing and maintaining strong relationship with customers in the various technology domains served by Encore Semi:
• Advanced SoC/FPGA & System design
• Physical Design & DFT/DFx
• Constrained embedded software
• Challenging web/cloud software
• SoC / System / Platform verification & validation

A global understanding of the various phases of a SoC/chipset/platform/software development is critical to identify where and when Encore Semi can intercept and successfully engage in customer’s projects.

Qualifications:
• Successful 8 years of experience in selling engineering services combining hardware software.
• Solid understanding of the semiconductor, system and software industry in the Bay Area is required.
• Solid network of contacts in the semiconductor industry of California is mandatory.
• Solid understanding of the steps required to develop a Chipset and an electronic system is required   
• Engineering degree is required.
• Prior sales experience could have been acquired in a context of software or hardware engineering services, processors, FPGA, EDA tools or semiconductor-related software development tools.  
• Proven track record of closing deals.
• Efficient verbal/written communication and negotiation skills.
• Reasonable understanding of contractual and legal terms, and their business/liability implications would be a strong plus.
• Excellent organization skills. Efficient responsiveness and ability to manage multiple projects and accounts in parallel.
• Ability to efficiently leverage the Encore Semi organization to achieve best and fastest results with minimum energy.  Ability to effectively present information and rapidly respond to questions from clients, management and technical associates, with the help of the Encore Semi teams.
• High-interest and ability to rapidly learn high-level concepts of new technologies, new tools and new methodologies is required to maintain high technical credibility with customers.
• Self-starter; sets example as a high-performing team member; has a positive demeanor and uses knowledge and organizational skills to achieve desired objectives; exhibits ability to meet client expectations based on Encore Semi capabilities; supports other team members; takes accountability for individual and team objectives.
• Ability to maintain a high-quality work level even under stress and/or time constraints

The anticipated annual base salary for this position is between $100,000 - $120,000/ year Commissions which also includes a comprehensive benefits package.