Global Applications Director - Design-Win & Revenue (San Diego)

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 front‑ends. These intelligent and efficient semiconductors enable advanced modules for smartphones, base stations, personal computers, electric vehicles, data centres, 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 Senior Director, Global Applications leads the global CAE and FAE organisations with clear accountability for technical execution that converts to revenue. This role drives design‑win strategy, prioritises 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 organisation 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 organisational 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 organisational 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)

• 10 years of experience in technical leadership roles, with a proven track record of managing and developing applications engineering and systems engineering teams, or related semiconductor technical leadership experience.
• Experience in leading 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 centralised applications teams and distributed FAE organisations.
• 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, colour vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.

USD 239,010.85 – 328,639.91 per year

Equal Employment Opportunity

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, colour, 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 licence 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.