Senior Director, Strategic & Customer Roadmap Programs

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Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world.

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Who We Are

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display. Our teams partner closely with customers to enable the next generations of technology.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Director to lead enterprisescale prioritization and executive communications that focus the customer-facing field organization on the highestvalue devicecritical applications. This role partners with account and business unit leaders to consolidate customer roadmap insights identify industry trends and align technical priorities to business outcomes.

What Youll Do

• Lead the endtoend prioritization process: identify and prioritize the most critical applications adjust priorities as signals evolve and drive alignment through governance forums.
• Connect application prioritization to business outcomes by maintaining a clear linkage between priority selections and share growth potential customer outcomes and business unit strategy.
• Provide visibility and governance for top priority projects: consolidate inputs across stakeholders report status and progress align on definitions/cadence/templates and drive closure of actions and decisions.
• Partner with Account Technology Leaders and Field leadership to capture customer roadmap changes synthesize crossaccount insights and identify forwardlooking industry trends.
• Translate complex technology and execution inputs into executiveready narratives executive presentations and internal reviews with content that is clear comparable and actionoriented.
• Drive adoption of standard processes and templates across regions and accounts; collaborate with operations/analytics partners to improve data quality automation and repeatability.

What Success Looks Like

• Leadership teams have timely decisionready views of priorities enablement status and key risks/issues.
• Field engineering effort remains focused on the highestvalue applications with clear rationale and disciplined course correction.
• Consistent governance and operating cadence across stakeholders with measurable followthrough on actions.
• Clear connection between technical priorities customer outcomes and share growth potential.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
• 15 years of experience in semiconductor process engineering technology enablement portfolio strategy or related roles.
• Proven leadership of enterprisescale crossfunctional programs and executivelevel communications.
• Strong credibility with senior technical stakeholders across accounts and business units.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in Engineering Materials Science Physics or related field.
• Experience translating customer roadmaps and technology inflections into portfolio priorities and investment guidance.
• Experience building metrics/dashboards and operating mechanisms for governance and value tracking.

Key Skills

• Executive communication and structured synthesis
• Portfolio prioritization and program governance
• Stakeholder management and influence in a matrix organization
• Semiconductor technology roadmaps and application criticality
• Datadriven decision making and outcome tracking

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace.

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The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location hire grade job-related knowledge skills experience and with consideration of internal equity of our current team addition to a comprehensive benefits package candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program as applicable.

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