Senior Field Technical Leader, Consumer

Analog Devices, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 228,000 - 313,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Vision coverage

Dental coverage

401k

Paid vacation

Holidays

Sick time

Job summary

Analog Devices, Inc. in San Jose, CA, seeks a Senior Field Technical Leader for Consumer Field Applications Engineering. You will lead a diverse FAEs team, translate customer priorities into action, and drive design wins across multiple disciplines.

The role requires a strong technical background in analog/digital design, extensive leadership experience, and willingness to travel up to 25% in the US. Based in the San Jose office, you will collaborate with Sales, BU, and Marketing to deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 10+ years in product, design, technical marketing, field applications engineering, or equivalent technical discipline.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Ability to travel up to 20%, primarily within the United States.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical advisor to Consumer Sales leadership, translating strategy into goals for the Applications team.
• Synthesize customers’ System requirements, roadmaps, and design challenges to guide team investment.
• Lead, coach, and develop FAEs and specialists across disciplines and geographies.
• Define and scale best practices, operating mechanisms, and metrics balancing short-term execution with long-term objectives.
• Build and sustain relationships with customer technical leaders and product lines.

Skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Leadership

FAE leadership

Cross-functional

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Job description

About Analog Devices

Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) is a global semiconductor leader that bridges the physical and digital worlds to enable breakthroughs at the Intelligent Edge. ADI combines analog, digital, AI, and software technologies into solutions that combat climate change, reliably connect humans and the world, and help drive advancements in automation and robotics, mobility, healthcare, energy and data centers. With revenue of more than $11 billion in FY25, ADI ensures today's innovators stay Ahead of What's Possible. Learn more at www.analog.com and on LinkedIn and X.

If you enjoy leading through complex technical and business challenges, developing strong customer relationships, and integrating the work of teams across technologies and applications, a career as a Senior Field Technical Leader in Analog Devices’ Consumer Field Applications Engineering organization could be for you. ADI’s Field Applications Engineers connect the world’s leading analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing provider with its customers. They play a vital role throughout the customer engagement lifecycle, from architecture definition and development of hardware, software, and documentation through successful deployment in the field.

The Senior Field Technical Leader will lead and integrate the activities of Field Applications Engineers supporting Consumer customers, including direct and matrixed contributors across relevant technical disciplines. Serving as a technical advisor to Sales leadership and an Applications leader, the role is accountable for customer success, design activity, and revenue growth across the assigned area. The position requires excellent communication, strategic thinking, and the ability to understand, aggregate, and synthesize the technical and business needs of customers and FAEs. The leader will work across Sales, Business Units, Technology Groups, and other FAE teams to identify key opportunities, elevate the voice of the customer, establish priorities and performance expectations, and lead through changes in business plans. Success also requires a strong record of recruiting, developing, and retaining FAE talent, creating opportunities for career growth, and developing successors.

The candidate should be well versed across a wide range of technologies, with exceptional expertise in an area that can benefit the broader sales team and ideally have experience working in or supporting the consumer market. This position is based in Analog Device’s San Jose office.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Serve as the senior technical advisor to Consumer Sales leadership, translating organizational strategy and customer priorities into coordinated goals and direction for the Applications team.
• Synthesize customers’ system requirements, roadmaps, business priorities, and design challenges to distinguish critical needs from lower-priority requests and guide team investment.
• Work closely with the Business Units (BUs) to ensure the customer voice is elevated via knowledge of our customer’s systems and roadmaps.
• Develop and propose new product ideas to Product Lines to fill customers' needs.
• Integrate the activities of FAEs, specialists, and partner teams across disciplines and geographies, using direct and matrixed leadership to align resources, remove obstacles, and deliver customer and business results.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key Product Lines' Management, Marketing, and Applications personnel.
• Lead, coach, and develop a diverse team of FAEs and specialist contributors, establishing clear goals, performance standards, and development plans while creating opportunities for career growth and succession.
• Guide FAEs in career and personal development.
• Define and scale best practices, operating mechanisms, and performance metrics that balance short-term execution with long-term customer, design, and revenue objectives.
• Through experience and customer interactions, influence training for the field (FAEs and Sales) on relevant technology.
• Lead efforts to recruit new FAEs and related technical roles.
• Foster collaborative efforts within the FAE community.
• Build and sustain relationships with customer technical leaders, using those relationships to understand strategic priorities, influence architecture decisions, and strengthen long-term partnerships.
• Through close collaboration with peers, specialists and BUs, ensure customers are fully supported from an Applications Engineering perspective.
• Compile, understand, and disseminate latest technical developments to FAE teams.
• Partner with Sales leadership to set account priorities and goals, monitor design and opportunity pipelines, improve pipeline quality, allocate technical resources, and drive customer success and revenue growth across the assigned area.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or an equivalent technical discipline.
• Demonstrated excellence in verbal and written communication.
• 10+ years of experience in product, design, technical marketing, field applications engineering, or an equivalent technical discipline, including demonstrated success leading FAEs or specialist contributors across multiple disciplines, teams, or geographies.
• Proficiency in analog circuit design at the board and system levels across a diverse range of applications.
• Proven ability to organize and prioritize multiple concurrent projects effectively.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with and influence customers, senior Sales and Business Unit leaders, peer managers, and cross-functional stakeholders, including driving decisions to closure without relying on direct authority.
• Exceptional expertise in a relevant technology area that can benefit the broader sales organization.
• Strong understanding of ADI’s sales processes and/or external sales best practices.
• Established record of building and sustaining relationships with customer technical leaders.
• Track record of timely hiring, talent development, retention, and succession planning.
• Ability to travel up to 20%, primarily within the United States.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• For positions requiring access to technical data, Analog Devices, Inc. may have to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce - Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the U.S. Department of State - Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. As such, applicants for this position – except US Citizens, US Permanent Residents, and protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) – may have to go through an export licensing review process.
• Analog Devices is an equal opportunity employer.
• We foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed regardless of their race, color, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, social or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, union membership, and political affiliation, or any other legally protected group. EEO is the Law: Notice of Applicant Rights Under the Law.

Job Req Type: Experienced

Required Travel: Yes, 25% of the time

Shift Type: 1st Shift/Days

The expected wage range for a new hire into this position is $227,700 to $313,088. Actual wage offered may vary depending on work location, experience, education, training, external market data, internal pay equity, or other bona fide factors.

This position qualifies for a discretionary performance-based bonus which is based on personal and company factors.

• This position includes medical, vision and dental coverage, 401k, paid vacation, holidays, and sick time, and other benefits.

Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) is a global semiconductor leader that bridges the physical and digital worlds to enable breakthroughs at the Intelligent Edge. ADI combines analog, digital, AI, and software technologies into solutions that combat climate change, reliably connect humans and the world, and help drive advancements in automation and robotics, mobility, healthcare, energy and data centers. With revenue of more than $11 billion in FY25, ADI ensures today's innovators stay Ahead of What's Possible. Learn more at www.analog.com and on LinkedIn and X. Come join ADI – a place where Innovation meets Impact. For more than 55 years, Analog Devices has been inventing new breakthrough technologies that transform lives. At ADI you will work alongside the brightest minds to collaborate on solving complex problems that matter from autonomous vehicles, drones and factories to augmented reality and remote healthcare. ADI fosters a culture that focuses on employees through beneficial programs, aligned goals, continuous learning opportunities, and practices that create a more sustainable future.