Now Hiring - Senior Account Manager in Santa Clara, CA

Senior Account Manager – Semiconductor Strategic Accounts - Bay Area

As an NI Regional Account Manager (AM), you will be responsible for the business between NI and our largest strategic semiconductor customers in Northern California. This assignment is critical to the success of the Americas region and has visibility across NI at the executive level. You will lead account objectives that increases business impact at our customers. By leveraging an ownership mentality and deploying extensive NI/partner resources, you will drive discovery with existing and net-new customers to win sales opportunities.

An AM is responsible for developing the strategy, business and execution plans for their portfolio of accounts and work with dedicated FAE and AE resources as well as lead collaboration with the Semiconductor & Electronics Business Unit to drive meaningful engagement and shape our product and solution roadmaps target at addressing customer needs and challenges.

A successful AM leads a cross functional team to establish NI as a trusted advisor to our customers. AMs own the growth plan and strategy and are responsible for all NI effort within their defined portfolio and must lead through influence to generate demand and close sales in identified areas of greatest opportunity.

You will work in a collaborative and open culture with coworkers and leaders who can inspire you to new heights in your personal and professional development. You're on a career track that leads to increased impact as an account manager, sales team manager, business development manager or in other key roles within the greater NI organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a business plan that drive sales in excess of $10M with a quantifiable growth strategy for YoY growth in line with BU expectations.
• Apply problem solving and project management skills to make progress in exceeding customer objectives.
• Drive personal and account team growth through accurately identifying and leveraging NI's strengths to create compelling visions that drive action with internal and external decision makers to deliver to customer’s strategic initiatives.
• Expand horizons through identifying, developing and maintaining influential senior-level relationships within multiple semiconductor accounts.
• Constantly expand on the area of influence that NI can contribute to by engaging new groups and customer leadership.
Proactively build strategies in partnership with Semiconductor Business Unit and Partners to maximize serviceable account opportunities and increase market penetration.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
• 3+ years' of progressive experience in technical sales.
Have or take residence in San Jose CA or surrounding Bay Area.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience selling to enterprise accounts in the Semiconductor market. Track record of delivering YoY revenue growth.
• Experience and/or exposure leading a cross-functional team (sales, marketing, technical) to engage with Sr. Leadership.
• Experience selling in a long sales cycle with complex custom engineering for both hardware and software solutions.
• Knowledge of Semiconductor validation and production processes.
• Strong knowledge of NI portfolio.