Customer Engagement Group Director

Cadence is seeking a world class verification leader to be a part of the team responsible for deployment of Cadence verification products at leading semi-conductor and systems companies.

Responsibilities:

• Lead select strategic customer engagements and provide technical guidance to field leaders, customer leaders in India for verification products
• Partner with select customer at tech lead and management levels to set plans and deliverables for mutual success
• Partner with field teams to provide tactical and strategic support to win key evals and satisfy customer-care abouts
• Partner with RnD to spec, build, test and deploy productivity/performance improvements or new products/solution for key engagements
• Drive and report on progress on key customer commitments for internal reviews and external management meetings
• Develop a strong high performance engagement team to win verification evals using SVG products and solutions for WW customers
• Drive and implement processes for improving team efficiency and productivity

Position Requirements:

• BS-EE/CE (MS-EE/CE preferred)
• A minimum of 15 years of experience in the EDA / verification industry
• Use of verification tools and a strong knowledge base of verification of complex digital designs.
• Strong knowledge of simulation, emulation and formal verification tools
• Processor based emulation systems such as Palladium experience a plus
• Hands-on experience with Verilog, VHDL, UVM (SystemVerilog or Specman “e”)  or C/C++ and  Metric/Coverage driven verification
• 10+ years of experience in a customer engagement role
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to document and communication scope,  plans with all stakeholders including customers, RnD, PE, AE and sales teams.
• Strong negotiation skills
• Ability to distill low level technical information and create summary material for reporting to executive staff.
• Ability to travel within up to 25%.