Executive, Business Development – Horizontals (India, ASEAN, and Pacific)
Job Summary
At Cadence we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
The role combines technical credibility commercial ownership and strong customer engagement with a focus on highvalue use cases complex engineering challenges and strategic accounts. A key objective is to transform early-stage opportunities into repeatable scalable sales motions while acting as the voice of the customer internally and contributing to product positioning GTM execution and long-term business growth across key industries.
Responsibilities
Business Development
- Own assigned product lines with clear accountability for new and renewal revenue contributing to the achievement or overperformance of product and service targets.
- Identify qualify and develop new business opportunities end-to-end building and sustaining a healthy pipeline through proactive opportunity generation disciplined follow-up on qualified leads and effective opportunity nurturing across all stages of the sales cycle.
- Develop and maintain deep expertise on assigned products solutions and target markets with a strong focus on complex high-value and strategically relevant offerings.
- Clearly articulate value propositions and address technical objections positioning solutions in a way that resonates with both technical and business stakeholders.
- Provide regular accurate pipeline forecast and KPI updates ensuring transparency predictability and data-driven decision-making.
- Collaborate closely with field sales account managers and channel partners to define and proactively execute account and territory strategies aligned with overall business objectives.
- Actively contribute to internal enablement sharing product updates customer success stories competitive insights and winning strategies with sales and technical teams.
- Establish and maintain trusted long-term relationships with current and prospective customers acting as a credible business and technical partner.
- Represent the company at industry events trade shows and conferences supporting market visibility lead generation and pipeline development.
- Lead customer-facing solution presentations demos PoCs evaluations and trainings coordinating technical resources to ensure high-quality execution.
- Contribute to the creation of clear compelling proposals quotations and value propositions working effectively with internal stakeholders.
- Capture and relay structured customer feedback to Product Management and Marketing to support product evolution positioning and GTM effectiveness.
Customer Engagement
- Build and maintain trusted long-term relationships with existing and prospective customers channel and technical partners acting as a key point of reference to drive satisfaction adoption and growth.
- Engage closely with key customer stakeholders to understand business and technical needs and translate them into tailored scalable solution proposals.
Cross-functional Collaboration
- Partner with Sales Account Managers Engineering Product Management Services and Marketing to align customer needs business objectives and product positioning acting as the voice of the customer in internal discussions.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to pilot and validate new solutions anticipating emerging customer requirements and market trends.
- Work with Marketing teams to support content creation demand generation initiatives and pipeline-building activities aligned with Business Development priorities.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree or higher in a technical engineering business or related field with significant experience in Business Development technical sales or consulting for engineering or technology-driven solutions and a proven record of success.
- Strong foundation in engineering simulation modeling and system-level thinking enabling credible and effective engagement with technical customer stakeholders.
- Demonstrated understanding of applied Machine Learning statistics or data-driven techniques within an engineering or industrial context.
- Experience working in engineering software or advanced technology environments supporting complex solution selling and customer-driven use cases.
- Excellent organization communication negotiation and presentation skills with the ability to influence a wide range of stakeholders.
- Strong collaborative mindset able to operate effectively in multicultural cross-functional teams.
- Strategic analytical and problem-solving orientation with the ability to make data-driven decisions and address complex challenges.
- Customer-centric and results-oriented approach consistently focused on delivering measurable value and long-term customer satisfaction.
- Familiarity with enterprise software offerings commercial models and pricing practices.
Willingness and ability to travel and operate in a regional and global context.
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About Company
Do you want to shape the future of technology? Cadence is leading the charge to solve some of technology’s toughest challenges. We work with the world’s most innovative companies, across a growing range of industries. Major trends that you hear about everyday – like artificial intell ... View more