Senior Implementation Engineer

Senior Implementation Engineer

The Senior Implementation Engineer (SIE) is assigned to customers once the deal is closed. SIEs ensure that customers understand and experience the value of Altium's Enterprise solutions (AES). The SIE enables the customer's successful implementation of AES, and ensures they are productive. The effectiveness in influencing both internal and external stakeholders is the single most important characteristic of the SIE. SIEs demonstrate value, can put systems and processes into common practice, and efficiently resolve internal and external issues. The SIE plays an indispensable role in bridging the gap between the Altium Sales, Customer Success (Technical Support) and R&D organizations.

Key Competencies

1. Ability to think strategically and understand Altium's goals and objectives, and influence decisions and policies that will help Altium AND the customer achieve goals and objectives.
2. Possess emotional intelligence to empathize with the customer, understand who the customer is, how they think, and translate that into customer requirements.
3. Be action-oriented and leverage project management skills to work effectively with deployment and technical support teams.
4. Proactively drive improvements to systems, processes, products, and solutions.
5. Be proactive in identifying critical client deadlines while demonstrating the ability to independently organize, oversee, and fulfill project timelines to ensure consistent delivery.

Job Description

• Work with Account Managers, Solution Architects and other SIEs on training, guiding, and coaching customers through the myAltium engagement process.
• Provide detailed Project management skills for the Implementation and ensure the customer's ongoing success post deployment.
• Use in-depth knowledge of client, industry, business processes, and deep knowledge of the product and technical expertise to drive and increase adoption and usage of AES.
• Serve as the post-sale point of contact for customers during AES implementation.
• Collaborate with Altium's Customer Success (Technical Support) and R&D organizations to ensure timely resolution of issues, and to propose solutions that continually add value to the customer.
• Handle escalations of implementation and customer productivity blocking issues, and coordinate related activities with Sales, TAMs, R&D, and Customer Success (Tech Support).
• Work with Solution Architects and R&D to resolve software issues that have the highest impact to the customer and Altium's business.
• Build excellent customer relationships, and influence them to adopt recommended best practices.
• Work with Account Managers to reduce churn, and enable client expansion, renewal and retention.
• Be a customer advocate. Promote a customer-focused culture across Altium to continually improve customer relationships and Altium capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent degree and experience
• At least 5 years of experience in customer success, account management, or a client-facing role in Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
• Experience with Altium or other PCB ECAD Library/component management required
• PLM expertise desirable
• Ability to engage customer at business level, drive alignment, and execution
• Ability to be highly effective in a matrix management organization
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Able to travel 30%

Additional Information

The expected annual pay range for this position is $120,000. This position is also eligible for bonus opportunities. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

Renesas offers a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, and pet insurance. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive company-paid life insurance and AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose 'To Make Our Lives Easier.' As the industry's leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power. With a diverse team of over 22,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, 'To Make Our Lives Easier.' At Renesas, you can:

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.
• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people's lives easier, safe and secure.
• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.

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