Business Development Manager

Amphenol Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Vacation

Sick leave

Personal days

Paid holidays

Life insurance

Short/long term disability

401K matching

Job summary

Amphenol Corporation is seeking a Business Development Manager for the Santa Clara, CA area. The role focuses on early-stage customer engagement, system-level design-in activities, and collaboration with Sales, FAE, engineering, and operations to convert opportunities into revenue.

The position requires a technical background in high-speed interconnects and a track record of influencing design decisions, with strong communication skills for cross-functional teams and customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Electronics, or a related technical field (MBA is a plus).
• 5–10+ years of experience in business development, product marketing, FAE, or sales engineering in high-speed interconnect or related industries.
• Strong experience in early customer engagement and system-level design-in support.
• Solid understanding of high-speed backplane, connector, or data center hardware applications.
• Proven ability to act as a trusted technical advisor to customers and influence design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Identify and develop New Business Opportunities (New business funnel creation and growth)
• Drive early-stage customer engagement and support system-level design-in activities
• Work closely with Sales and FAE teams to convert opportunities into revenue
• Understand customer roadmaps and align product positioning accordingly
• Lead competitive analysis and identify market trends for strategic input
• Support product line manager for pricing strategy and commercial positioning for key opportunities
• Coordinate with product engineering, and operations teams to ensure feasibility and alignment
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers and ecosystem partners
• Support key programs from concept stage through design win and ramp-up

Skills

New business development

System-level design-in

Cross-functional collaboration

Excellent communication

AI infrastructure familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Electronics

MBA is a plus

Job description

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, is a world leader in interconnect solutions for Communications, Mobile, RF, Optics, and Commercial electronics markets. Amphenol Corporation is one of the world’s largest designers and manufacturers of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, antennas, sensors and sensor-based products and coaxial and high-speed specialty cable. ACS has an expansive global presence in research and development, manufacturing, and sales. We design and manufacture a wide range of innovative connectors as well as cable assemblies for diverse applications including server, storage, data center, mobile, RF, networking, industrial, business equipment, and automotive.

Position: Business Development Manager

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Amphenol High Speed Products Group is the market leader for high speed, high bandwidth electrical connectors for the Telecom/Datacom market (Mobile Networks, Storage, Servers, Routers, Switches, etc.). Our products help to enable the electronics revolution and remain a key enabler for all the major Tier 1 OEMs globally. We are currently seeking a Business Development Manager to join our High Speed Backplane team. The position will be located in Santa Clara, CA.

This role is responsible for early-stage customer engagement, supporting customer system design activities, and serving as a trusted consultant for high-speed backplane product needs.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Identify and develop New Business Opportunities (New business funnel creation and growth)
• Drive early-stage customer engagement and support system-level design-in activities
• Work closely with Sales and FAE teams to convert opportunities into revenue
• Understand customer roadmaps and align product positioning accordingly
• Lead competitive analysis and identify market trends for strategic input
• Support product line manager for pricing strategy and commercial positioning for key opportunities
• Coordinate with product engineering, and operations teams to ensure feasibility and alignment
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers and ecosystem partners
• Support key programs from concept stage through design win and ramp-up

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Electronics, or a related technical field (MBA is a plus)
• 5–10+ years of experience in business development, product marketing, FAE, or sales engineering in high-speed interconnect or related industries
• Strong experience in early customer engagement and system-level design-in support
• Solid understanding of high-speed backplane, connector, or data center hardware applications
• Proven ability to act as a trusted technical advisor to customers and influence design decisions
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills (engineering, product manager, sales, and operations)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Familiarity with AI infrastructure, servers, or OCP ecosystems is highly preferred
• Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to translate customer needs into product requirements
• Self-driven, customer-focused, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, global environment

The base salary range for this position is $100,750– $188,750. In determining rate of pay, Amphenol considers a variety of nondiscriminatory factors, including but not limited to geographic location, relevant industry experience, qualifications, skills, and education. It would be rare for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for a given role. Base salary is one facet of Amphenol’s total rewards package which includes participation in our comprehensive benefits program with

• medical, dental, and vision benefits effective day 1
• vacation
• sick leave
• personal days
• paid holidays
• life insurance
• short/long term disability
• matching 401K

Amphenol Corporation is proud of our reputation as an excellent employer. Our focus is to provide the highest level of support and responsiveness to both our employees and our customers, the world's largest technology companies. Amphenol Corporation offers the opportunity for career growth within a global organization. We believe that Amphenol Corporation is unique in that every employee, regardless of his or her position, has the ability to positively impact the business.

Amphenol is an “Equal Opportunity Employer” - Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin.

For additional company information please visit our website at https://www.amphenol-cs.com/