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Executive Director, Interface IP

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Category: Engineering Remote Eligible Yes Hire Type: Employee
Job ID 6642 Date posted 11/04/2024

We Are:

At Synopsys, we drive the innovations that shape the way we live and connect. Our technology is central to the Era of Pervasive Intelligence, from self-driving cars to learning machines. We lead in chip design, verification, and IP integration, empowering the creation of high-performance silicon chips and software content. Join us to transform the future through continuous technological innovation.

You Are:

An inspiring leader with a proven track record in managing and leading teams focused on IP product development. You thrive in a matrixed, international, and team-oriented environment with multiple stakeholders. Your collaborative, supportive, and inspirational leadership style delivers results that exceed expectations. 

You are a leader that builds structure and growth of teams that enables successful execution to plan a predefined plan of record.

Ideally you are an expert in PCI Express and ARM based SOC architectures around PCI Express that enables you to drive product definition and roadmaps. 

You are a leader with previous digital controller development background and experience in managing large R&D digital teams. 

You are adept at driving cross-functional collaboration with stakeholder teams. 

You are passionate about Customer Success as a core value, demonstrating customer empathy, be in pre-sales ask versus commit date negotiation or post sales escalation management. 

You can leverage your expertise in leading innovative world class IP solutions in driving quality from a functional and physical implementation feasibility, leading across a multi-site team to communicate the product vision, understand problems, and find solutions to create a leading-edge design. 

You have a deep understanding of digital design principles that enables you to lead complex projects. You excel in environments that require strategic thinking and have a proven track record of implementing goals that impact corporate sub-functions or business units. Your communication skills are top-notch, allowing you to effectively influence and collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders. 

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Ultimately responsible for delivering on time, as per committed plan-of-record, the PCIe/CXL product portfolio ensuring functional quality, physical feasibility and smooth customer experience 
  • Leading and managing large teams of R&D engineers focused on developing digital IP controllers, namely PCIe/CXL, to the product line’s plan-of-record 
  • Ensure that the team capacity and team structure are setup to meet market demand. With fixed resources, define the prioritization of asks with stakeholders and align an execution plan to achieve of plan of record. 
  • Managing cross-functional collaboration with marketing, support organizations, methodology team and MSIP PHY team to ensure aligned objectives across all stakeholders
  • Adapting to methodologies and physically aware sign-off metrics as defined by methodology and physical design sign-off teams 
  • Manage project scope, project schedule, project resource costs and project risk. Review project convergence metrics with team, identifying risks early and mitigate against such risk. Align with management on project resource needs and trade-offs. 
  • Lead R&D activities as required around customer pre-sales engagements and post-sales support and escalation management 

The Impact You Will Have:

  • Ensuring that the underlying team structure, competency and productivity can deliver on-time to the market requirements 
  • Ensuring a smooth customer experience from multiple angles. Quality in all functional correctness, physical feasibility, ease of deployment of features interoperability with verification IP products, interoperability with MSIP PHY 
  • Contributing to Synopsys' leadership in the semiconductor industry through and more specifically PCI Express controllers 
  • Delivering efficiency & productivity gains in digital design and verification of IP products. 
  • Minimize both pre and post sales customer escalations past your role. 

What You’ll Need:

  • Experience in creating structures with clean lines of responsibility and accountability down management chain. 
  • Ideally, deep knowledge of PCIe technologies and related protocols.
  • Proven track record of leading and managing teams focused on IP product development.
  • Strong knowledge in IC development environment 
  • Ability to agilely learn from team mistakes and either define new process’s or enforce existing process’s as preventative actions.  
  • Excellent communication, organizational, risk assessment/mitigation and time management skills. Ability to abstract up and communicate meaningful conclusions and define next steps. 
  • Extensive experience in all aspects of ASIC digital design, verification, validation and physical design feasibility.
  • Embodying a collaborative, supportive, and inspirational leadership style to deliver results that exceed expectations.

Who You Are:

  • Inspirational and collaborative leader.
  • Excellent communicator and collaborator.
  • Team-oriented and supportive.
  • Innovative and forward-thinking.
  • Results-driven and detail-oriented.
  • Adaptable and comfortable in a matrixed, international environment.
  • A strategic thinker with a passion for innovation.
  • A mentor and leader with a commitment to developing others.
  • An expert in your field with a deep understanding of digital design principles.
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills.
  • Capable of fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence

The Team You’ll Be A Part Of:

You will be leading a dynamic and innovative R&D team focused on developing digital PCI Express controllers within the Intellectual Property Group within Synopsys. This team collaborates closely with the VIP, PHY, Sub-System service, emulation, methodology, support and customer success teams to deploy the PCIe controller to the market space as an overall one Synopsys solution as high quality differentiated products. The organization size will be of the order of 150 engineers. 

Rewards and Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.

Inclusion and Diversity are important to us. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, military veteran status, or disability.

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