Executive: Program & Customer Success Leader

Originally posted 5 November 2026 by the employer.

About the role

Provide executive program and customer success leadership for a portfolio of concurrent, interdependent semiconductor and IP programs supporting a strategic customer engagement.

What you'll do

• Serve as a senior customer-facing leader, aligning with key stakeholders on priorities, commitments, risks, and business outcomes.
• Establish and drive program governance, integrated planning, execution cadence, and executive-level reporting.
• Maintain an integrated view of schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, quality, readiness, and deliverables across multiple product and engineering programs.
• Drive cross-functional execution across complex semiconductor development programs from product development and integration through validation and customer deployment.
• Anticipate cross-program risks and dependencies, leading proactive mitigation and cross-functional issue resolution before customer commitments are impacted.

What you'll need

• BSEE or equivalent technical degree, with semiconductor industry experience leading complex engineering and customer programs.
• Significant leadership experience in semiconductor, SoC, silicon IP, or complex technology-development environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading a portfolio of concurrent and interdependent programs beyond the management of a single project or product.
• Extensive leadership experience directly engaging strategic customers and senior engineering, business, and program stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of the semiconductor development lifecycle, including architecture, design, verification, implementation, IP integration, silicon validation, release, and production.
• Experience with integrated planning, program governance, risk and dependency management, metrics, executive reporting, and escalation management across matrixed, global organizations.

Skills: program management, SoC, silicon IP, customer engagement

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