Director, Global Applications

Director, Global Applications

Location: US

pSemi Corporation is a Murata company driving semiconductor integration. pSemi builds on Peregrine Semiconductor's 30-year legacy of technology advancements and strong IP portfolio but with a new mission—to enhance Murata's world-class capabilities with high-performance semiconductors. With a strong foundation in RF integration, pSemi's product portfolio now spans power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning and RF frontends. These intelligent and efficient semiconductors enable advanced modules for smartphones, base stations, personal computers, electric vehicles, data centers, IoT devices and healthcare. From headquarters in San Diego and offices around the world, pSemi's team explores new ways to make electronics for the connected world smaller, thinner, faster and better.

Job Summary

The Director, Global Applications leads the global CAE and FAE organizations with clear accountability for technical execution that converts to revenue. This role drives design‑win strategy, prioritizes resources against the highest‑value opportunities, and builds the operating discipline, technical standards, and scalable assets needed to improve win quality and accelerate customer adoption. As the senior leader bridging Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Engineering, this person ensures the applications organization balances commercial urgency with technical rigor while delivering consistent global execution. Success is defined by stronger design‑win conversion, scalable technical leverage, and meaningful business impact.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Owning global applications strategy and technical conversion to revenue, ensuring technical engagement, design‑win focus, and execution priorities translate into measurable business results.
• Leading and scaling the global Central Applications and Field Applications teams, building organizational capability, bench strength, and a high‑performance culture across regions.
• Establishing and enforcing the global applications operating model, including engagement standards, governance, escalation paths, and consistent execution discipline.
• Setting strategic priorities for applications resources, aligning support coverage and technical investment to the highest‑value opportunities and critical customer needs.
• Driving operational excellence through metrics and accountability, using performance data to improve focus, execution quality, customer impact, and organizational effectiveness.
• Building scalable technical leverage, ensuring Central Applications delivers reusable assets, technical collateral, and infrastructure that reduce reactive support and accelerate customer adoption.
• Leading technical readiness for new product introductions, partnering cross‑functionally to ensure successful launch execution, field enablement, and revenue acceleration.
• Serving as the senior cross‑functional and customer‑facing technical leader, guiding strategic escalations, aligning Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Engineering, and translating market insight into product and go‑to‑market action.

Minimum Qualifications (Experience and Skills)

• 12+ years of applications engineering, systems engineering, or related semiconductor technical leadership experience.
• 7+ years of people leadership experience, including management of global technical teams.
• Strong technical background in RF, analog, mixed‑signal, power, ASIC, or related semiconductor technologies.
• Demonstrated success driving design wins, customer adoption, and technical engagement that converts to revenue.
• Proven ability to lead across Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Engineering in a global environment.
• Strong operational discipline, including experience establishing processes, metrics, and scalable support models.
• Excellent executive communication, presentation, and decision‑making skills.
• Experience leading both centralized applications teams and distributed FAE organizations.
• Ability to travel globally up to 25‑40%.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related technical field; Master's degree preferred.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.

USD 200,575.91 - 275,791.88 per year

pSemi Corporation supports a diverse workforce and is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees. pSemi does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver's license issued under Vehicle Code section 12801.9), ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally‑protected medical condition, military or veteran status (including "protected veterans" under applicable affirmative action laws), marital status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal laws applicable to the Company. pSemi also prohibits discrimination based on the perception that an employee or applicant has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.