Key Responsibilities:

- Lead, mentor, develop, and expand a diverse global team of systems and applications engineering experts.

- Cultivate a high-performing engineering organization by attracting and retaining top technical talent, fostering individualized technical career development, and nurturing future leaders.

- Streamline and continuously optimize the applications engineering role to enhance accountability and drive results.

- Demonstrate hands-on experience utilizing an AI-led framework to design Sales, Commerce, and Support applications.

- Oversee product validation at both system and application levels, including the development of best-in-class processes, procedures, and automation tools to improve customer experience and accelerate time-to-market.

- Collaborate with the product validation team to ensure superior quality.

- Establish best practices for the creation of high-quality product collateral, such as datasheets, application notes, design guidelines, and simulation models, to ensure robust product implementation in Go-to-Market (GTM) and Customer Experience (CX) systems.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (marketing, design, systems, software, test engineering, and project management) to define, design, and develop world-class products and solutions.

- Provide leadership and direction to the new product development engineering team, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.

- Drive Engineering and Operational excellence with a customer-first mindset.

- Offer expert technical guidance to business and delivery teams during ideation and implementation phases.

- Stay informed of technology trends in the cloud infrastructure market, understand customer roadmaps, technology trends, and future needs.

- Develop recommendations and competitive features to maintain product and solution leadership through continuous improvement.

- Establish and foster relationships with technical leaders across the company to exchange best practices and leverage existing capabilities within Renesas to enhance applications engineering operations.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or related fields with 15+ years of experience in design, systems, or applications engineering; Master's degree is a plus.

- Solid understanding of CRM and Commerce applications and products.

- Proven ability to build and lead multidisciplinary teams.

- Track record of delivering AI-based solutions with demonstrable real-world business impact.

- Strong understanding of AI tooling, infrastructure, and cloud-native AI/ML pipelines.

- Extensive experience leading a large global team, with prior experience as a site leader for a global organization.

- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

- Strong ability to make data-driven decisions and effectively utilize key performance indicators to measure success.

- High energy, self-motivated, and proactive attitude, with a bias toward action.

- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to be personable and drive process and organizational changes.

- Experience managing change that resulted in positive outcomes.

- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills.

- Ability to present complex concepts clearly, concisely, and effectively.

- Ability to collaborate and be effective in a fast-paced and global environment.

The Team:

You will be part of a growing, passionate, and dynamic team with the opportunity to work on challenging and exciting projects centered on one of the world's most significant mission statements.

We strive to be the most people-centric company, constantly working to make your experience amazing and empowering you to break boundaries of what the workplace can be.

This is a unique opportunity to lead transformative initiatives that will drive efficiency, innovation, and cultural change across a large, global sales organization.

You will be at the forefront of integrating advanced technologies into our sales processes, positioning the company for long-term success while delivering meaningful value to customers and stakeholders alike.