Director, Roadmapping & Advanced Mfg

The Director of Technology Roadmapping & Supplier Development is a high-impact executive leadership role responsible for defining and driving the long-term manufacturing technology strategy for next-generation of products. This position requires a visionary leader who can synthesize market technology trends evolving customer roadmaps and internal operational realities to identify technical gaps and build a world-class supplier ecosystem. Operating at the intersection of future-state product architecture and global factory capabilities the Director will maintain tight matrixed alignment with key internal operational leadersspecifically the Front-End Senior Manager Back-End Senior Manager and Test Senior Managerto systematically transform strategic multi-year technology roadmaps into flawless execution.

1. Strategic Technology Roadmapping & Market Intelligence

• Trend & Ecosystem Analysis: Actively monitor global semiconductor electronic manufacturing packaging and infrastructure trends to anticipate shifting paradigms (e.g. silicon photonics advanced thermal management high-density interconnections).

• Customer Roadmap Alignment: Engage early with tier-1 silicon architects and hyperscaler customers to capture their 3-to-5-year hardware roadmaps translating future system performance criteria into manufacturing process requirements.

• Capability Gap Identification: Benchmark current internal manufacturing boundaries against future requirements to isolate technical gaps yield risks and capability shortfalls in the upcoming execution horizon.

2. Strategic Supplier Development & Sourcing

• Ecosystem Engineering: In collaboration with Supply Chain teams Scout evaluate and develop global supplier networks capable of providing the cutting-edge tooling automated solutions materials and processes required for upcoming product generations.

• Supplier Technology Interventions: Collaborate with suppliers to co-develop or upgrade their internal capabilities ensuring they hit critical-to-quality (CTQ) thresholds and scale capacities ahead of NPI timelines.

3. Cross-Functional Engineering Collaboration

• Front-End Interfacing: Partner with the Front-End Senior Manager to align supplier capabilities with advanced SMT requirements focusing on complex substrates large-form-factor BGA warpage management fine-pitch placement and optimized thermal reflow profiling.

• Back-End Interfacing: Partner with the Back-End Senior Manager to qualify automated box build tooling mechanical subsystem fixtures liquid cooling integration setups cable managment and full-rack integration capabilities within the supplier network.

• Test Engineering Interfacing: Partner with the Test Senior Manager to identify gaps in structural functional and system-level high-speed testing capabilities co-developing automated test equipment and diagnostic capabilities.

4. Executive Leadership & Governance

• Steering Committees: Chair internal technology steering committees to prioritize capital expenditure (CapEx) and engineering R&D investments based on the validated multi-year roadmap.

• Phase-Gate Leadership: Lead comprehensive technology phase-exit reviews for raw materials advanced components and equipment platforms before passing ownership to standard NPI and manufacturing teams.

• Mentorship & Culture: Build a rigorous data-driven culture of technology scouting and value engineering mentoring technical staff across the enterprise.

Salary Range: $189872-$297014 Annually

The salary range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company and may change based on several factors including by not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting or the credentials experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate.

Compensation includes the Base Salary and the target Short-Term Incentive (STI)/ bonus. A comprehensive benefits package is offered in addition to this.

• Technical Breadth: Deep foundational understanding of the entire hardware stack stretching from front-end advanced microelectronic packaging and SMT down to back-end mechanical enclosure assembly robotic automation fluid dynamics/cooling rack-level power systems and high-frequency functional testing methodologies.

• Ecosystem Network: A robust pre-existing professional network containing tier-1 hardware designers (e.g. Nvidia Broadcom Marvell) system integrators and critical manufacturing equipment/tooling vendors worldwide.

• Executive Presence: Proven track record of presenting complex multi-year capital/technology strategies to C-level executives and external customer stakeholders with exceptional clarity commercial acumen and persuasion.

12 years of experience in high-tech hardware environments (e.g. Hyperscale infrastructure Advanced Semiconductors tier-1 EMS or Datacenter systems) with at least 5 years in a dedicated strategic roadmapping supplier development or technology architecture leadership role.

Masters or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Electrical/Electronic Engineering Materials Science or a business-technical hybrid degree (e.g. Management of Technology) is highly preferred.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.