Senior Semiconductor Program & Customer Success Leader

Synopsys Inc; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

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Job summary

Synopsys Inc. is seeking a senior program leader to guide a portfolio of semiconductor and IP programs for a strategic customer in Sunnyvale.

You will oversee governance, planning, and executive reporting while coordinating cross-functional teams across product, engineering, and customer-facing roles. You will build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, manage risk, and drive timely decision-making to ensure commitments are met.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership of highly complex engineering and customer programs.
• Experience leading a portfolio of concurrent and interdependent programs.
• Extensive leadership with strategic customers and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for a portfolio of concurrent, interdependent semiconductor and IP programs supporting a strategic customer.
• Serve as a senior customer-facing leader, building trusted relationships with key stakeholders and ensuring alignment on priorities, commitments, risks, and outcomes.
• Establish and drive program governance, integrated planning, execution cadence, customer commitments, and executive-level reporting.
• Lead across multiple customer programs, bringing together product, engineering, program, and customer-facing teams to drive coordinated execution.
• Maintain an integrated view of schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, quality, readiness, and customer deliverables across the engagement.
• Drive cross-functional execution across complex semiconductor development programs, from product development and integration through validation and customer deployment.
• Anticipate cross-program risks and dependencies, driving proactive mitigation and timely resolution before they impact customer commitments.
• Lead resolution of complex issues requiring alignment across customers, programs, functions, and senior stakeholders.
• Lead the discipline, transparency, and accountability required to deliver consistently across a large-scale strategic customer engagement.
• Provide an integrated executive program view across the engagement.

Skills

Executive leadership

Strategic customer engagement

Program governance

Cross-functional coordination

Risk management

Executive communication

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Decision making

Education

BSEE or equivalent technical degree

Job description

Synopsys Inc. is seeking a senior program leader to guide a portfolio of semiconductor and IP programs for a strategic customer in Sunnyvale.

You will oversee governance, planning, and executive reporting while coordinating cross-functional teams across product, engineering, and customer-facing roles. You will build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, manage risk, and drive timely decision-making to ensure commitments are met.