Senior Director, MEMS Technology

Skyworks Solutions seeks a Sr. Director of MEMS Technology to lead our global technology, engineering, and product development efforts for MEMS technologies. The leader will report to the Vice President of Acoustic Engineering and EDA and will drive Skyworks MEMS strategy. The Senior Director of MEMS Technology will leverage a strong background in MEMS process and device engineering as well as end-to-end product development and integration into MEMS-based solutions to define and execute the roadmap for our MEMS technologies and products.

The leader will be responsible for delivering high quality MEMS products that integrate into Skyworks precision timing modules. They will work cross-functionally and in close collaboration with Business Unit's Silicon IC design engineering leaders as well as other divisional engineering leaders and external partners to ensure the technical and commercial success of the complete MEMS-based products.

The ideal Sr. Director of MEMS Technology is a passionate leader with the ability to drive an expanding area developing MEMS solutions that enable a competitive advantage for Skyworks. The successful leader will apply their knowledge and breadth of exposure across their team to drive well-constructed and differentiated MEMS solutions to market.

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  Lead Skyworks' advanced engineering MEMS development efforts by quickly building and managing a high-velocity MEMS engineering team, establishing the product vision, and supporting the development and production of parts by being the technical expert.

  
  
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  Collaborate with the senior management team to influence strategic business decisions regarding MEMS technologies, ensuring effective and regular communication with the executive team and peers across the organization.

  
  
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  Work with external partners and internal development teams to utilize Skyworks' technologies in creating and implementing a compelling technology roadmap that supports business unit product opportunities in timing, VCO, VCXO, and more.

  
  
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  Formulate and drive best practices that are adopted across the MEMS engineering organization; drive an execution and efficiency mindset across all engineering functions as it relates to operationalizing the MEMS technology development. Continuously track and benchmark performance to ensure our MEMS products are world-class amongst our peers.

  
  
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  Define and drive robust design methodologies across the MEMS engineering organization that instill a high-performance mindset, drive execution excellence and efficiency. Drive continuous improvement and evolution of the design methodology in response to lessons learned and new technology requirements.

  
  
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  Provide high-level technical contributions to customer relationships ensuring we can deliver products that are fully compliant with customer requirements.

  
  
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  Meet financial objectives by accurately forecasting requirements, preparing budgets, anticipating expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.

  
  
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  Leadership responsibilities include: Attract and retain top talent while actively managing underperformance. Articulate the mission and rally the team around success, leading from the front with a high level of ownership and demanding excellence from yourself and your team. Travel will be an important part of the position as well.

  
  

Industry experience: 15 years+ experience in the semiconductor industry with a minimum of ten years of MEMS engineering leadership roles for a global semiconductor organization.

Engineering Expertise: Extensive experience in the design, development, and manufacturing of MEMS products. Has experience operationalizing business technology development.

M&A: Depth of experience in identifying, assessing and integrating acquisition targets.

Production: A proven track record of aggressively driving products into market in a high-volume production environment (ideally, MEMS technology development and New Product Introduction (NPI) of MEMS technology into high volume production).

High volume ramp experience, including experience to define and drive DFT/DFM/DFR practices, to drive yield improvement, and to deal with RMAs and quality excursions.

Analytics: Experience with analyzing complex, massive and multi-dimensional data to mine for key attributes that impact performance, or yield, or quality.

Leadership: A proven leader of an engineering team. Has managed multi-cultural teams before and has experience leading effectively in a multi-cultural, multi-geographic engineering environment. Ability to provide a high-level technical vision for the MEMS engineering organization while dropping in to help solve engineering and production problems when needed.

Cross-Functional: Experience working with both business units, executives, and manufacturing engineering teams to achieve production road map goals for MEMS products.

Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering, Physics or Chemistry required. Master's degree preferred.

Leading People

Collaborates and openly debates with the team to manage projects, solve problems, discuss challenging issues, or learn more about critical issues as a group.

Delegates roles thoughtfully to free self to work at a more strategic level.

Collaborates with each employee to establish clear, challenging performance goals and metrics for the year.

Designs a performance management process to monitor projects and deliver results that exceed expectations.

Periodically reviews team progress against plans, focuses attention beyond the project to the full year or more.

Collaborating and Influencing

Negotiates with a genuine give-and-take approach, where both act as true peers and decisions are shared.

Spends time identifying all stakeholders necessary and meets or connects with all of them, neglecting no one to shape a collective consensus.

Identifies opportunities to build relationships that will help others achieve their objectives and reaches out to those people or new people.

Strategic Thinking

Explains specifically how changes in competitors, clients, and market segments affect own business or institution.

Translates broad corporate strategies into clear, specific objectives and plans for units and individuals.

Creates plans that address specific segments or contrasts local market with other locations or segments.

Thinks 3-5 years ahead.

Driving Results

Enables higher performance by incrementally improving approaches based on calculated risks and benefits.

Benchmarks own performance against industry best practices.

Proactively seeks to improve processes and implement best in class solutions, raising quality and productivity in a calculated way.

Identifies new processes and/or systems to improve productivity and/or make the business more efficient.

Impeccable Integrity - Embodies and practices world-class ethical standards. Creates an environment of trust by acting with fairness and consistency, keeping commitments, and providing rationale for decisions.

Entrepreneurial - Self-motivated, hands-on, self-managing, and solutions-oriented and thrives in a constantly changing, fast growing global environment.

Ego Maturity - The ideal candidate will be an aggressive, results-oriented individual who, at the same time, is the consummate team player. He/she will be well respected by senior management, peers, and subordinates, and will be secure in his or her technical and managerial abilities.

Intelligent - A person with strong intellectual capabilities who can hold his/her own yet support the ultimate decision. A creative thinker who is willing to acknowledge the past and build toward the future.

Open Minded - A resilient and committed executive with a flexible and open operating style; non-political and non-bureaucratic; someone with a natural and effective consultative approach who will gain the trust and respect of individuals at all levels.

Effective Communicator - He/she maintains an open flow of two-way communication, exhibiting strong verbal, written and presentation skills, stating expectations clearly and being visible to all stakeholders. Is effective with written, verbal, presentation, and listening skills.

Customer Centric - A person who creates valuable partnerships with customers, listens to their needs, and provides excellent customer service.

He/she utilizes an efficient and agile business model to quickly respond to market needs and to drive sustainable value for customers.

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