Telegent Systems represents a breakthrough opportunity for handset makers, carriers, and broadcasters.
Careers
Telegent is looking for exceptional candidates for the following positions :
» VP of Global Product Marketing
» Director, Digital Design
» Business Development Manager, LatAm
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VP of Global Product Marketing
(full-time position, location: China)The VP of Global Product Marketing will report to the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. The successful candidate will be a senior executive of the Company and will be responsible for key aspects of the business including new product planning and product marketing and will play a key role in strategic sales engagement and sales process.
Key Responsibilities:
The VP of Global Product Marketing will have responsibilities in the following critical areas:
- Product Management / Marketing
- Work with the CEO, CTO and VP of Engineering to develop future product initiatives.
- Drive strategic planning process with executive team.
- Build and manage global product and technical marketing organization across multiple product lines.
- Define and drive cradle-to-grave product life cycle process and key milestones.
- Analyze competition, technology trends and engage with customers to define product requirements and assess market opportunity.
- Conduct market sizing and segmentation.
- Generate pricing strategies.
- Develop and execute go-to-market strategies.
- Strategic Sales Engagement
- Develop relationships with strategic customers and key partners.
- Secure lighthouse design wins for new products / product lines.
- Define key customer targets.
- Participate in and support tier-1 engagement activities.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Minimum of 10 yrs. of experience in semiconductor component marketing with product responsibility.
- The ideal candidate will be a current or former executive from a respected semiconductor organization and will have significant experience in product management and in managing professional-level marketing personnel.
- He/she will also have experience working in a hands-on environment, a track record of success introducing new products to the marketplace and proven ability to grow revenue.
- Experience marketing of chips into mobile handset or PC OEMs.
- Management of complete product cycle from definition of product to volume production.
- Demonstrated understanding of the challenges associated with commercializing new technologies.
- Able to interface successfully with technical development team, customers, and partners.
- Proven record of effective leadership and mentorship of a team of marketing professionals.
- Experienced in preparation of budgets & revenue forecasts.
- A team player who can work effectively in a fast-paced small company environment.
- Proven effectiveness working in a company of diverse cultures with extensive experience working with Asia-based customers and employees.
Education:
Undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and other graduate degrees from a respected institution are desirable. Experience and significant accomplishments may be substituted for advanced degrees.
Director, Digital Design
(full-time position, location: Sunnyvale, CA)Description/Requirements:
We are looking for an experienced manager with strong, hands-on digital design experience:
- Demonstrated success in managing a team that has taped out a SoC resulting in revenue generating products.
- Has a proven track record of developing and implementing detailed project schedules and plans.
- Lead all aspects of the design cycle as necessary.
- Has worked with at least one design in excess of one million placeable instances.
- Has 3-5 years experience as an individual contributor AND 3-5 years experience leading a team of 4 or more engineers.
- Working knowledge of System Verilog, System-C, code coverage, etc.
- Solid understanding of basic DSP blocks (such as filtering, Viterbi, FFT, etc.).
- Basic lab skills. Working knowledge of FPGA based prototyping. Viterbi, FFT, etc.).
- Requires MSEE or better.
Desired:
- Working knowledge of television standards (such as NTSC, ATSC, etc.) preferred but not required.
Business Development Manager, LatAm
(full-time position)Job Responsibilities:
- Member of Telegent’s global business development team.
- Identifies, builds and manages partnerships in Latin American trade free zones (Panama, Uruguay and Paraguay).
- Identifies relationships between local traders, distributors and customers in China and Hong-Kong (IDHs, ODMs, OEMs).
- Identifies and implement programs oriented at driving preference for products that use Telegent technology.
- Feeds back market trends and works with product management to identify and evaluate opportunities for existing and new products.
Required Skills:
- Based in Panama City, Paraguay or Mexico City.
- Fluent English and Spanish. Working knowledge of Mandarin and conversant Portuguese preferred.
- Deep knowledge of the semiconductor, telecom, cellular (handset definition) industries (at least 5-7 years of experience, marketing, biz dev, sales), ability to feedback handset definition requirements.
- Strong leadership capabilities.
- Partnership development (including negotiation) capabilities.
- Self-motivated with ability to work in an unstructured environment (strong operational mindset, decisive, with a "get it done" and “whatever it takes” mentality).
- Strong analytical skills (experience building, evaluating and clearly presenting complex business models is critical).
- Strong interpersonal skills; ability to influence others without formal authority.
- Excellent written and oral communications skills.
Desired Skills:
- Strong network/connections with the LatAm mobile operators and/or Tier 1 OEM local organizations and/or broadcasters and/or handset distributors and/or retailers.
- MBA Preferred.