Strategic Account Manager - EDA

Job Family:
Software

Req

Company:
Siemens EDA

Job Title:

Strategic Account Director

Job Location:

Santa Clara, CA

Siemens EDA is a global technology leader in Electronic Design Automation software. Our software tools enable companies around the world to develop highly innovative electronic products faster and more cost‑effectively. Our customers use our tools to push the boundaries of technology and physics to deliver better products in the increasingly complex world of chip, board, and system design.

• Identify and build strong relationships with key customers, executives, and decision‑makers and uncover customer desired objectives or needs
• Manage prospecting, lead generation, and lead qualification activities for assigned territory
• Deliver on quarterly and annual numbers while maintaining focus on competitive, customer, and technology landscapes to form a strategic near‑ and long‑term outlook; build a pipeline of opportunities for both short‑, medium‑, and long‑term success
• Develop and lead a cross‑functional sales team to grow the territory; formulate a, direction, and strategy to build and motivate the team, deliver customer solutions, and increase revenue
• Facilitate collaboration and communication across cross‑functional team and customers to drive technology adoption and proliferation and align future solutions with customer roadmaps
• Create negotiation plans and work closely with customers to reach mutually beneficial agreements; negotiate and close contracts, partnering with sales management, finance, legal, the customer
• Collaborate with early‑career sales colleagues to grow new business, providing mentorship and coaching, as needed

• You have at least ten years of experience in the EDA or IC design space, including at least five years in customer‑facing roles and a proven track record of successfully selling complex technical solutions
• You demonstrate superior leadership skills, with proven success leading partnerships and collaboration across complex accounts and leveraging a broad network across the customer/account base
• You are a strong internal partnership‑builder with proven success engaging a broad, cross‑functional team to meet business targets
• You exercise excellent business judgment and have demonstrated success delivering results that are optimized at the company level (balanced between company and customer), then team, then yourself
• You are adaptable and resilient in the face of challenges, with experience handling competing priorities and an ability to address and tackle problems in a timely manner
• You possess outstanding communication and presentation skills, including outstanding oral and written communication, presentation, and relationship‑building skills across all organizational levels
• You are energized by the opportunity to mentor and develop early‑career colleagues
• You have a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Hybrid
• Up to 50% travel required
• Job location:
  
  Santa Clara, CA

Working at Siemens Software means flexibility – choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software.

A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future, one day at a time in over 200 countries. We’re dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!