Senior Sales Account Manager - AI & Robotics
NXP Semiconductors · San Jose, CA · 2 wk ago
HybridBusiness DevelopmentFull-time
Primary Responsibilities
- Profile, prioritize, and pursue the fastest-growing AI and Robotics revenue opportunities across start-ups, scale-ups, and high-growth established customers
- Drive top-line revenue acceleration by converting emerging use cases into repeatable, multi-account sales motions
- Own early opportunity qualification and deal strategy, ensuring focus on customers with clear scale, funding, and production potential
- Translate customer pain points into clear commercial value propositions, positioning NXP solutions to win competitive socket placement
- Collaborate with business development, products line, and application engineering to build, manage, and close a strong pipeline, from discovery through volume production
- Enable faster GTM execution by aligning reference designs, partner offerings, and channel strategies to revenue priorities
- Provide market and competitive insights that guide sales focus, pricing strategy, and investment decisions toward high-growth segments
- Influence internal priority and roadmap discussions by supplying clear revenue-based justification tied to customer commitments
- Build relationships with economic buyers and decision-makers (executives, product owners, procurement) to expand share of wallet
- Track opportunity progress rigorously, report accurately, and drive accountability to revenue outcomes
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of experience in Sales, Business Development, or Key Account Management in a high-growth semiconductor or technology environment
- Proven track record of driving rapid revenue growth, design wins, and customer expansion in emerging or disruptive markets
- Strong customer profiling skills with the ability to assess scale potential, funding maturity, and path to production
- Highly results-driven, with a hunter mindset and relentless focus on closing and expanding opportunities
- Techically credible and comfortable selling to engineering, product, and executive stakeholders
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and influence skills across internal and external organizations
- Strong analytical and business acumen, with the ability to prioritize opportunities based on revenue impact
- Comfortable operating with senior executives, both customer-facing and internally
- High energy, resilient, and competitive—unwilling to lose momentum on high-value opportunities
- Willingness to travel >30%