Technical Director (EPI/PEALD/PECVD/VF)

Responsibilities

• Build and grow customer relationships.
• Identify technology inflections through customer interaction and articulate these inflections to internal stakeholders to help drive development of products.
• Develop, maintain, and ensure relevance of technical information used by internal and external stakeholders.
• Understand and build long-term innovative technology systems that enable enhanced customer relationships.
• Ensure communication vehicles, e.g. telephone, email, and presentation, etc. are able to facilitate efficient and consistent customer follow-up.
• Drive continuous improvement of the customer experience through team, process and support tool development.
• Build strong cross-functional and matrixed relationships and collaborate with Product Marketing, Product Development, Service Engineering, and others to ensure a positive customer experience.
• Drive projects that secure business and build trust in ASM’s capabilities.  Coordinate management reviews and alignment.
• Other duties as and when assigned

Education & Experience:

• Master or Ph.D. in Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or related field.
• 15+ years of experience in the semiconductor field, especially in Epitaxy or Thin Film/PEALD or PECVD/LPCVD module process development.
• Solid technical understanding of advanced CMOS fabrication processing , integrated flow, chemistry, and physics.
• Proven success in building collaborative partnerships with customers and internal organizations.
• Strong market and industry knowledge and awareness of trends associated with our customer’s environments to properly develop and deploy customer solutions
• Experienced working with local, regional and global teams. High level of collaboration and work across other divisions – both co-located and globally to meet common goals and targets
• Adept at thinking strategically, organizing and illustrating those thoughts and translating plans into action within a matrixed environment
• Possess the ability to self-direct and prioritize among competing goals and exhibit flexibility in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated excellence in communication (verbal and written), negotiation, presentation, and interpersonal skills.