Lead Account Manager - Data Centers
Solstice Advanced Materials · Sunnyvale, CA · 3 wk ago
RemoteRemoteBusiness Development$129k–$161k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Own full commercial responsibility for assigned Datacenter accounts (e.g., hyperscalers, AI platform companies, ecosystem partners)
- Drive revenue growth, pipeline development, and long-term supply agreements
- Lead pricing, negotiations, and commercial strategy aligned with TAS growth objectives
- Expand share of wallet across TIMs, heat spreaders, and advanced packaging solutions
- Act as the Sales lead in the triad (Sales–BD–R&D/TS) with joint accountability for customer success
- Coordinate tightly with: BD: early engagement, roadmap shaping, and architecture influence
- TS/R&D: technical credibility, qualification, and issue resolution
- Ensure alignment on: Account priorities and growth roadmap
- Program milestones and design-in strategy
- Resource allocation and escalation
- Serve as the single commercial coordinator ensuring internal alignment and external clarity
- Build executive-level and working-level relationships across engineering, procurement, and operations
- Lead: Quarterly business reviews (QBRs), Commercial discussions and contract negotiations, Cross-functional workshops with customers
- Drive early engagement with customers to influence specifications before design freeze
- Improve: Design win rates, pipeline conversion and time-to-qualification
- Focus on solution selling, not product selling, particularly in advanced packaging and thermal management for AI/datacenters
- Lead internal coordination across: Technical Service / Application Engineering, R&D / Product Development, Supply chain, quality, and operations
- Remove execution barriers and drive: Program milestone delivery, Customer commitments, Issue resolution
- Translate customer requirements into actionable internal plans
Qualifications
- 8–12+ years in semiconductor materials, advanced packaging, or thermal management
- Proven experience managing strategic accounts in Datacenter / AI ecosystem
- Strong track record in: Complex solution selling, Cross-functional leadership in matrix environments, Driving design wins and long qualification cycles
- Understanding of: Datacenter architectures and AI compute platforms, Advanced packaging (2.5D/3D, chiplets, HBM), Thermal management challenges in high-power systems
- Ability to connect: System-level challenges → material/process solutions
- Strong influencing skills without direct authority
- Ability to operate at both: Strategic (account roadmap, partnerships) Tactical (pipeline, execution cadence)
- Excellent communication across: Technical Teams and Executive Stakeholders