Senior Director, Strategic & Customer Roadmap Programs

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Director to lead enterprise-scale prioritization and executive communications that focus the customer-facing field organization on the highest-value, device-critical applications. This role partners with account and business unit leaders to consolidate customer roadmap insights, identify industry trends, and align technical priorities to business outcomes.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the end-to-end prioritization process: identify and prioritize the most critical applications, adjust priorities as signals evolve, and drive alignment through governance forums.
• Connect application prioritization to business outcomes by maintaining a clear linkage between priority selections and share growth potential, customer outcomes, and business unit strategy.
• Provide visibility and governance for top priority projects: consolidate inputs across stakeholders, report status and progress, align on definitions/cadence/templates, and drive closure of actions and decisions.
• Partner with Account Technology Leaders and Field leadership to capture customer roadmap changes, synthesize cross-account insights, and identify forward-looking industry trends.
• Translate complex technology and execution inputs into executive-ready narratives, executive presentations and internal reviews with content that is clear, comparable, and action-oriented.
• Drive adoption of standard processes and templates across regions and accounts; collaborate with operations/analytics partners to improve data quality, automation, and repeatability.

What Success Looks Like

• Leadership teams have timely, decision-ready views of priorities, enablement status, and key risks/issues.
• Field engineering effort remains focused on the highest-value applications with clear rationale and disciplined course correction.
• Consistent governance and operating cadence across stakeholders, with measurable follow-through on actions.
• Clear connection between technical priorities, customer outcomes, and share growth potential.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
• 15+ years of experience in semiconductor process engineering, technology enablement, portfolio strategy, or related roles.
• Proven leadership of enterprise-scale, cross-functional programs and executive-level communications.
• Strong credibility with senior technical stakeholders across accounts and business units.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or related field.
• Experience translating customer roadmaps and technology inflections into portfolio priorities and investment guidance.
• Experience building metrics/dashboards and operating mechanisms for governance and value tracking.

Key Skills

• Executive communication and structured synthesis
• Portfolio prioritization and program governance
• Stakeholder management and influence in a matrix organization
• Semiconductor technology roadmaps and application criticality
• Data-driven decision making and outcome tracking