Customer Marketing Engineer
Location: US-CA-San Jose
Requisition ID: 3412
of openings: 1

Description

At Altera, we take pride in creating an energetic and dynamic work environment that is driven by ingenuity and innovation. We believe the growth and success of our company is directly linked to the growth and satisfaction of our employees. That is why Altera is committed to a work environment that is flexible and collaborative, and allows our employees to reach their full potential.

Altera Corporation is the pioneer of programmable logic solutions, enabling system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their markets. Altera combines the programmable logic technology originally invented in 1983 with software tools, intellectual property, and customer support to provide high-value programmable solutions to over 13,000 customers worldwide. Altera is headquartered in San Jose, California, and employs approximately 3,000 people in 19 countries.

As a Customer Marketing Engineer, you will successfully drive design wins with key customers in Consumer, Medical and Test market segments. This “mini-GM” position requires basic business understanding, ability to learn customer applications and articulate customer requirements to internal team, including senior management. You will also analyze Altera’s business and product portfolio with regards to specific customers and apply such analysis to drive successful customer engagement. In this role, you will work closely with worldwide sales teams to apply Altera value propositions, develop and promote system-level solutions for your customer base. You will own resolution of critical customer issues by escalating them to cross-functional teams and influencing resource prioritization to satisfy your customers’ issues. You will also own pricing decisions, business forecasts, ROI analysis, and managing pricing contracts for your assigned customers. The ideal candidate must be self-driven, results-oriented, and a team player who enjoys understanding customer situation and applies such understanding to enhance short and long term business.

The successful candidate's minimum qualifications will include the following:

• BS in Electronics/Computer Engineering or equivalent technical field


• Prior work experience is not required


• Strong communication and persuasive negotiation skills


• Decisive and able to manage conflict


• Possessing good business acumen